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News Release 08-214
Beginning Scientists Receive Presidential Awards
Twenty NSF nominees receive the government's highest honor for scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers
December 19, 2008
Embargoed until December 19, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
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Twenty young scientists from among those taking part in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) have received an additional distinction as winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for the 2007 competition.
The PECASE program recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge. This Presidential Award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. In addition to NSF's winners, there are 48 scientists nominated by other government agencies.
By receiving awards through the CAREER program, the PECASE winners had already demonstrated their success in integrating research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.
"We take great pride in the PECASE winners," said Kathie L. Olsen, NSF's deputy director. "It is important to support the transformational research of these beginning scientists, and to foster their work in educational outreach and mentoring."
A complete list of NSF's PECASE awardees and their institutions follows:
Sonia Altizer, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
Maura J. Borrego, Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech University
Xi Chen, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia Universit
Kim M. Cobb, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology
Nicholas Feamster, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alexander Gamburd, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeremy Gray, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Sanjay Lall, Department of Aeronautics and Astronomics, Stanford University
André W. Marshall, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Mónica Medina, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced
Katrina M. Miranda, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona
Subhasish Mitra, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Sanjit Seshia, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Aaron M. Thomas, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Idaho
Paul Torrens, School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University
Anastasia Volovich, Department of Physics, Brown University
Joan Walker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Center for Global Metropolitan Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Michael Yu, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2020, its budget is $8.3 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 50,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards.
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Aldermen recognized 14 graduates of the Citizens Police Academy Tuesday night. The academy included 10 sessions between September and April and taught citizens about law enforcement in New Bern.
Aldermen recognized 14 graduates of the Citizens Police Academy Tuesday night.
The academy included 10 sessions between September and April and taught citizens about law enforcement in New Bern.
Cheryl Reed, class president, said the academy was very educational.
�It certainly was very important to us,� she said. �It empowered our knowledge of how the police department works and how we can use that knowledge in the community.�
The graduates saw simulated police procedures, rode with officers and took tours of the jail and police facilities.
Reed said all of the officers were professional and respectful and allowed the graduates to do most of what they have to do while protecting the city.
Responding to a question from the mayor, Reed said she was most amazed at how informed New Bern police officers are and the technology they use.
Alderman Johnnie Ray Kinsey said he would like to see the graduates use what they learn in their communities by passing it along to others.
Alderman Victor Taylor commended all of the graduates.
Later in the meeting, the board adopted a resolution approving the lease agreement with State Employees Credit Union for the ATM located in the parking lot at the corner of Pollock and Craven streets. The new agreement changes the lease from $50 a month, which is what it has been for many years, to $225 a month.
Aldermen also approved an ordinance to restate the schedule of capital recovery fees and connection fees for water and sewer customers of the city.
Jordan Hughes, city engineer, said the revised ordinance will not affect current customers� monthly water and sewer rates, just new developments.
The recommended changes revise the demand rates to represent the actual expected use from a proposed development. It also allows for historical consumption data to be evaluated in establishing an alternative demand rate for proposed usage, according to staff reports.
A ceiling has been established in the proposed ordinance so that no single customer will have a combined water and sewer capital recover fee that exceeds $50,000. And connection fee charges have been revised to incorporate the actual meter cost of the new AMI water meters, reports show.
The board also approved paying an additional $133,286.50 to the Neuse Boulevard water main replacement project that is nearing completion.
The amendment to the contract will reflect the actual amounts of work performed by the contractor, James L. Cayton, Inc., and the cost of the work based on the unit prices established in the contractor�s bid, according to staff reports.
The increase is within the project�s contingency fund of $293,153, Hughes said.
The new water main project should be completed in about a week. Then the water will be shut off from the old water main where four or five leaks of about 20 gallons of water a day will stop, Hughes said.
Hughes said the Department of Transportation, which agreed to repave Neuse Boulevard once the water main is complete, could begin by July 1, a year ahead of schedule because the water main project was about nine months ahead of schedule, he said.
Aldermen also approved a bid of $2,000 for property jointly owned by the city and county at 613 Ruth Ave.
A resolution was approved to protect the $27 million N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund that is in jeopardy of being reduced in next year�s budget.
The state is proposing to permanently reduce the available amount in the fund, as well as eliminate the designation of a dedicated, standalone funding source, according to reports.
Mike Epperson, city manager, said although the fund has been low for sometime, the city depends on the money.
Development Services also gave the board a brief update on the prevention of the Demolition by Neglect Process, including how properties are added and removed from the list and how minimum housing standards and fines are applied to the properties.
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This week in Best of Publib covers two weeks – September 7th to September 19th. PubLib was being upgraded by OCLC/Webjunction on September 13th. The last two weeks include fanciful discussions about library ecology, thought provoking discussions regarding LSSI, evaluation of Better World Books , staff cell phones, and how to effectively weed old librarians. Some of the topics we will be reviewing include:
- Topic – Florida Librarians Fight Back Against LSSI – Obviously, someone thinks libraries are profit centers. Why else would they sue?
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- Topic – Philadelphia Free Libraries – This venerable institution initiated by Dr. Pepper was in danger of closing. Supporters came though and the library was saved.
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User blog: Ajit Mishra
Evolving behaviour of Industries, Business, Trade and Customers are causing many changes in ways and systems of storage and distribution centers of commodities or goods. Professionals of the related fields are always under pressure to focus on increasing efficiencies at their storage system of commodities. Behaviour of commodities market, traders and customers are always evolved and changed due to their needs and economic conditions. In order to achieve these objectives, innovation is going to be a key. Storage system of commodities and goods are also evolving itself as per its need.
Now in these days people are just thinking that Godown is a simple storage system and only using for keeping goods and Warehouse is that place where goods are kept with modern ways of securities and preventing its loss. Warehouse has all the necessary equipments and methods to keep commodities without any loss of commodities, market and economy.
This is actually evolution of storage system of commodities. Maybe it's Godown to warehouse or Storage Pits to warehouse.
Godown is for storage of goods and commodities but Warehouse is the place of business and maintenance of market not only the maintenance of just goods or commodities. Warehouse works for market and business strategies and it is also important for after sales services, sales chain and online sales.
So we can say that Godown is only a place of keeping goods or commodities but Warehouse is place and policy both for keeping goods and commodities.
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Logistics Management is the key of modern trade as it was in ancient age. System of management and ways of management is always upgrading and changing with the demand of the field of Logistics Industries. Companies are always is the demand of updated skilled managers and staff for logistics. In today's fast running world people has very less time to spend on education and skill development but they need all knowledge regarding this. To solve these issues the concept of short skill development course become the part of needs for modern working society.
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As you know that modern working society is based on professionals and experts. But it is difficult for industries and service sectors to provide jobs for every professionals. So lots of professionals from different sectors are working as a self employed person. Lots of self employed persons are earning more from those people who are employed in different companies. Self employed persons have more chances to show their talent in the related field of profession. They are their own boss but responsible for their work and commitment.
With our online skill development courses in logistics management we are supporting our students to become a self employed person. With support of our ex-students of India and abroad we have created a chain of contact of self employed logistics professionals. This chain of contact is working with each-other like a team of professional bodies. It is one of the world's largest group of self employed logisticians. They all are working as an individual professionals and responsible for all commitments which they commit. Fulfillment of commitment is the only key of success for all of us in this self employed group. This group is working on the contract of work-liaising basis between professionals.
All the self employed professionals in this group are trained from our online courses. At present they are working in few parts of India and world. Lots of parts in India and world are far from the reach of our self employed logistics professionals. We have to fulfill these vacant parts and empowered our students as a self employed logistics professionals.
Online courses by us make you update and perfect in the field of logistics. These courses will makes you a logistician with all the necessary skills. These skills will make you a self employed logistics professionals with the support of our group of self employed professionals.
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A good result or productivity comes not only through hard working but it comes through smart working. In smart work you can say it is a balance of hard and soft work. It means if you and your staff will work together with a perfect skill, perfect time and will do your hard work for a definite goal sure you, your team and your staff will finish it with a great success and make a productive result for your company. These quick productive results will save your time and money both. These types of success chain makes your company more productive and also makes your staff member happy and energetic. You can use this energy of your staff in another project smartly and again get a good successful productive result. It will again improves productivity of your company and result makes happy & energetic to your staff. Again your staff will be ready for another project. This stepwise success of your staff will create a chain of success for your staff and chain of productivity of your company.
On other hand if your staff are not skilled with proper and updated skills then their work are useless. If your unskilled or improper skilled staff will work hard then they get most of the part result and your every project will lose success barriers. It means you will never see any good productivity in your company. Also due to meaningless hardworking your staff get tired and lose their energy and dedication. After this, either you fired them from company or they will leave company. Continuing this will harm your company.
So always keep skills of your staff update and perfect. It is also very important if you are associated with Logistics & Supply Chain Industries. Rules and Regulations for Logistics & Supply Chain Management is always going to updated and changed time to time. New techniques are also introduced time to time. So it is important for professionals & company staffs to make their knowledge and skills always update. But if you want to update skills then it will take some time and your staff has to leave their work for sometimes to join any training session. But now in these days you and your staff has not to leave work for any while. Because Ajit Kumar Mishra (CMILT) has solve this problem for all of you.
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If you need training classes or skill development courses for your staff, feel free to make contact with me on any of the given contact details in the site. Below are the link for course details.Skill Development Courses
Basic Training Courses
Due to heavy demand of our students we are again organizing online skill development training program for warehousing and inventory management. This training is suitable for those professionals and staff members who are working in the field of logistics, transport and warehousing industries. In this training program we will provide following educational activities.
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If person or group of staff wants to join this training program please submit the form given via link below. Once your application form is accepted you have to pay the required fees for the training program after receiving the required fees you will be able to join this training program.
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you talked today here at the Northwest LinuxFest in part about the
future of free software.One thing you mentioned and I
want to ask you to expand on:What is the connection
between the drop in price of hardware and free software?
"maddog" Hall:Well
when hardware used to cost tens of thousands of dollars, a lot of
times the vendor would blend the software directly into the hardware
cost, and you didn't see the price of the software.As
the price of the hardware continues to drop, the price of the
software can tend to become overwhelming as to what the price of the
total system is.And so people start looking around and
saying, "Oh well, maybe I can get"—they
start seeing this cost.It is the same type of thing with
people who get caught with what they call a Microsoft tax of buying a
Notebook with the $34 or $35 to $70 type Microsoft charges for an
operating system.When the Notebooks were thousands of
dollars, that price was a little hidden.But now as they
drop down to $400 or less, people become more aware of it.So
this is one of the issues.The second issue is when people
start having the ability to create embedded systems, where they are
not just buying one operatinglicense but they are buying the
license thousands of times, all of a sudden, we were only buying one
or two licenses, it is one thing, but when you are buying thousands
of licenses a $35 license may be $35,000.
connecting the worlds of open and closed software, one of the things
that you mentioned is that you think that even closed source projects
would be able to hire open source people. Can you talk about
that?What do you mean by that?
let's say I am developing a project of some type and I intend
selling it as closed source.If I hire a closed source
programmer, somebody who has only worked in the closed source world,
they really may not have looked out to see what types of software is
available.They may not understand free software licenses, the
fact that different licenses have different requirements.They
may not have worked in a distributed, collaborative environment
before.But if you hire somebody who has been a free
software developer, who has paid attention to all of those things,
they can oftentimes say, "Well, instead of you having to buy
this database to make the project, you could use this open source
database and not to have to pay the database company a lot of money
to buy the database for this solution." And there's
really no reason not to use an open source developer for a closed
source project as long as that person realizes that actual project is
going to be closed source and their understanding of that, when they
go into the project.So I see the downside of hiring an
open source programmer and as I said, everything else being equal,
the difference between hiring an open source programmer and a closed
source programmer to me makes a lot of sense to hire the open source.
thing I have been picking for a lot of years is that Microsoft could
become the world's biggest open source vendor.It is
just not their model right now.
I have given a lot of thought to this.Clearly, of course,
I don't work in Microsoft so I don't know what their
thinking is but they have a business model based upon a product.And
they have a channel of people who buy their products and sell their
products to customers.Their channel makes money off of
that.And if Microsoft were to start giving away their
products for free, that channel would not be able to make as much
money.So that channel would be very upset with Microsoft,
just like the channel was upset with Microsoft when Microsoft started
selling the Microsoft Office functionality in the cloud.It
kind of cut the channel out from that—the channel was
upset.The same type of thing happened with SCO UNIX when
SCO was a company that was selling Linux Box, they had a whole bunch
of OEMs and channels and VARs and things like that, that made money
selling the product.And when Caldera bought SCO they
said, "Oh here's Linux, and Linux is for free" and
basically cut out this.And Caldera thought they were
getting this huge channel group of VARs and OEMs and when they
actually started_____ 5:02 the
channel disappeared.
walked into that.
they did.
the world of closed versus open too, when it comes to open source
software, one thing you mentioned is that, people complain sometimes
that there are a lot of stagnant projects.You don't
seem concerned about that. Can you say why that is?
I don't seem concerned about it, because my observation has
been that from time to time people pick these projects up, they start
over again,_____ 5:32 that
sometimes the project is stagnant because there has been another
project that can port off of it and those people are live, and doing
things with it.There are other alternatives of open
source out there, with_____ 5:48 to
do.So I see this as no different than companies selling
closed source projects and product and that company goes out of
happens all the time.
happens all the time.
the project dies. Closed or not.
the difference between those is that when that company goes out of
business, or that project dies, that closed source, you can't
get the source code to pick them up later on and continue with
it.You can't close the project, it just dies. I saw
so many projects back in Digital that were good projects but never
made it to the light of the day, because the companies didn't
seem they could make enough profit off of it.Not that they
couldn't make a profit, they couldn't make enough profit
off of it. When IBM sold the desktop and notebook division to Lenovo,
it was profitable.But it was profitable in a 2 to 3
percent profit level. That is not enough profit to sustain a company
like IBM.So they sold that off to Lenovo.Lenovo
had a much better method, much less overhead and IBM took the profit
from that and they bought Price Waterhouse Cooper.They
doubled the size of the support organization literally
overnight.Because the support organization including
solutions found a place that they could get enough profit to be able
to sustain IBM.And IBM took a lot of the people from
their laptop and desktop division with good producers, good people
and moved them into the solutions category.So it is the
same thing.You have to juggle with it around.It
is not magic.It is not magic.
magic or not.
Jon, thanks very much for your time.
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hi all. i am a new user in this site and newbie in java world. i have a problem with my swing application. thats why i am here to find out the problem with you. i have a JPanel on which i draw an image. to do that at first i take the Graphics object of the JPanel and then draw image on this graphics object.
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I would like to generate a statistic from my git repository to create a time-chart:
<commit> <timestamp> <changed-lines>
35abf648cfc 2011-04-04t17:23:58 +20 -4
93acb668f32 2011-04-04t17:59:01 -4 +1
so I can plot a "nice" graph for that with gnuplot or so. Where
<changed-lines> might be anything that is generatable, i.e.
+20 -3 (added 20 lines, removed 3 lines) or just
23 or whatever. Important is, that lines are counted -- changed files would not be useful in my scenario.
It would be good, if I could apply this only on a part of the repo, because some directories contain nasty binary files, which would destroy a statistics.
I guess
git log might come in there somehow, but I have no idea where to start...


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Alan Dalton post's birding diaries and original artwork from Sweden. Established in 2006, this now long running blog is now a complete overview of my birding experiences. As an artist I greatly enjoy sketching birds in the field and you will find a wide selection of that work here, from fieldwork to finished paintings. I am very passionate about my artwork and try to depict birds in their natural habitat, as I see them in the wild. My artwork is for sale and can be viewed at http://www.alandalton.net/
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|Safe Haskell
Navigation2D is an xmonad extension that allows easy directional navigation of windows and screens (in a multi-monitor setup).
- withNavigation2DConfig :: Navigation2DConfig -> XConfig a -> XConfig a
- data Navigation2DConfig = Navigation2DConfig {
- defaultTiledNavigation :: Navigation2D
- floatNavigation :: Navigation2D
- screenNavigation :: Navigation2D
- layoutNavigation :: [(String, Navigation2D)]
- unmappedWindowRect :: [(String, Screen -> Window -> X (Maybe Rectangle))]
- defaultNavigation2DConfig :: Navigation2DConfig
- data Navigation2D
- lineNavigation :: Navigation2D
- centerNavigation :: Navigation2D
- fullScreenRect :: Screen -> Window -> X (Maybe Rectangle)
- singleWindowRect :: Screen -> Window -> X (Maybe Rectangle)
- switchLayer :: X ()
- windowGo :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()
- windowSwap :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()
- windowToScreen :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()
- screenGo :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()
- screenSwap :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()
- data Direction2D
Navigation2D provides directional navigation (go left, right, up, down) for windows and screens. It treats floating and tiled windows as two separate layers and provides mechanisms to navigate within each layer and to switch between layers. Navigation2D provides two different navigation strategies (see #Technical_Discussion for details): Line navigation feels rather natural but may make it impossible to navigate to a given window from the current window, particularly in the floating layer. Center navigation feels less natural in certain situations but ensures that all windows can be reached without the need to involve the mouse. Navigation2D allows different navigation strategies to be used in the two layers and allows customization of the navigation strategy for the tiled layer based on the layout currently in effect.
You can use this module with (a subset of) the following in your
import XMonad.Actions.Navigation2D
Then edit your keybindings:
-- Switch between layers , ((modm, xK_space), switchLayers) -- Directional navigation of windows , ((modm, xK_Right), windowGo R False) , ((modm, xK_Left ), windowGo L False) , ((modm, xK_Up ), windowGo U False) , ((modm, xK_Down ), windowGo D False) -- Swap adjacent windows , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_Right), windowSwap R False) , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_Left ), windowSwap L False) , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_Up ), windowSwap U False) , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_Down ), windowSwap D False) -- Directional navigation of screens , ((modm, xK_r ), screenGo R False) , ((modm, xK_l ), screenGo L False) , ((modm, xK_u ), screenGo U False) , ((modm, xK_d ), screenGo D False) -- Swap workspaces on adjacent screens , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_r ), screenSwap R False) , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_l ), screenSwap L False) , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_u ), screenSwap U False) , ((modm .|. controlMask, xK_d ), screenSwap D False) -- Send window to adjacent screen , ((modm .|. mod1Mask, xK_r ), windowToScreen R False) , ((modm .|. mod1Mask, xK_l ), windowToScreen L False) , ((modm .|. mod1Mask, xK_u ), windowToScreen U False) , ((modm .|. mod1Mask, xK_d ), windowToScreen D False)
and add the configuration of the module to your main function:
main = xmonad $ withNavigation2DConfig defaultNavigation2DConfig $ defaultConfig
For detailed instruction on editing the key binding see:
Finer points
The above should get you started. Here are some finer points:
Navigation2D has the ability to wrap around at screen edges. For example, if
you navigated to the rightmost window on the rightmost screen and you
continued to go right, this would get you to the leftmost window on the
leftmost screen. This feature may be useful for switching between screens
that are far apart but may be confusing at least to novice users. Therefore,
it is disabled in the above example (e.g., navigation beyond the rightmost
window on the rightmost screen is not possible and trying to do so will
simply not do anything.) If you want this feature, change all the
values in the above example to
True. You could also decide you want
wrapping only for a subset of the operations and no wrapping for others.
By default, all layouts use the
defaultTiledNavigation strategy specified
in the
Navigation2DConfig (by default, line navigation is used). To
override this behaviour for some layouts, add a pair ("layout name",
navigation strategy) to the
layoutNavigation list in the
Navigation2DConfig, where "layout name" is the string reported by the
layout's description method (normally what is shown as the layout name in
your status bar). For example, all navigation strategies normally allow only
navigation between mapped windows. The first step to overcome this, for
example, for the Full layout, is to switch to center navigation for the Full
myNavigation2DConfig = defaultNavigation2DConfig { layoutNavigation = [("Full", centerNavigation)] } main = xmonad $ withNavigation2DConfig myNavigation2DConfig $ defaultConfig
The navigation between windows is based on their screen rectangles, which are available and meaningful only for mapped windows. Thus, as already said, the default is to allow navigation only between mapped windows. However, there are layouts that do not keep all windows mapped. One example is the Full layout, which unmaps all windows except the one that has the focus, thereby preventing navigation to any other window in the layout. To make navigation to unmapped windows possible, unmapped windows need to be assigned rectangles to pretend they are mapped, and a natural way to do this for the Full layout is to pretend all windows occupy the full screen and are stacked on top of each other so that only the frontmost one is visible. This can be done as follows:
myNavigation2DConfig = defaultNavigation2DConfig { layoutNavigation = [("Full", centerNavigation)] , unmappedWindowRect = [("Full", singleWindowRect)] } main = xmonad $ withNavigation2DConfig myNavigation2DConfig $ defaultConfig
With this setup, Left/Up navigation behaves like standard
focusUp and Right/Down navigation behaves like
focusDown, thus allowing navigation between windows in the
In general, each entry in the
unmappedWindowRect association list is a pair
("layout description", function), where the function computes a rectangle
for each unmapped window from the screen it is on and the window ID.
Currently, Navigation2D provides only two functions of this type:
singleWindowRect and
With per-layout navigation strategies, if different layouts are in effect on different screens in a multi-monitor setup, and different navigation strategies are defined for these active layouts, the most general of these navigation strategies is used across all screens (because Navigation2D does not distinguish between windows on different workspaces), where center navigation is more general than line navigation, as discussed formally under #Technical_Discussion.
Alternative directional navigation modules
There exist two alternatives to Navigation2D: XMonad.Actions.WindowNavigation and XMonad.Layout.WindowNavigation. X.L.WindowNavigation has the advantage of colouring windows to indicate the window that would receive the focus in each navigation direction, but it does not support navigation across multiple monitors, does not support directional navigation of floating windows, and has a very unintuitive definition of which window receives the focus next in each direction. X.A.WindowNavigation does support navigation across multiple monitors but does not provide window colouring while retaining the unintuitive navigational semantics of X.L.WindowNavigation. This makes it very difficult to predict which window receives the focus next. Neither X.A.WindowNavigation nor X.L.WindowNavigation supports directional navigation of screens.
Currently Navigation2D is known not to play nicely with tabbed layouts, but
it should work well with any other tiled layout. My hope is to address the
incompatibility with tabbed layouts in a future version. The navigation to
unmapped windows, for example in a Full layout, by assigning rectangles to
unmapped windows is more a workaround than a clean solution. Figuring out
how to deal with tabbed layouts may also lead to a more general and cleaner
solution to query the layout for a window's rectangle that may make this
workaround unnecessary. At that point, the
unmappedWindowRect field of the
Navigation2DConfig will disappear.
Detailed technical discussion
An in-depth discussion of the navigational strategies implemented in Navigation2D, including formal proofs of their properties, can be found at http://www.cs.dal.ca/~nzeh/xmonad/Navigation2D.pdf.
Exported functions and types
withNavigation2DConfig :: Navigation2DConfig -> XConfig a -> XConfig aSource
Modifies the xmonad configuration to store the Navigation2D configuration
data Navigation2DConfig Source
Stores the configuration of directional navigation
defaultNavigation2DConfig :: Navigation2DConfigSource
Default navigation configuration. It uses line navigation for the tiled layer and for navigation between screens, and center navigation for the float layer. No custom navigation strategies or rectangles for unmapped windows are defined for individual layouts.
data Navigation2D Source
Encapsulates the navigation strategy
lineNavigation :: Navigation2DSource
Line navigation. To illustrate this navigation strategy, consider navigating to the left from the current window. In this case, we draw a horizontal line through the center of the current window and consider all windows that intersect this horizontal line and whose right boundaries are to the left of the left boundary of the current window. From among these windows, we choose the one with the rightmost right boundary.
centerNavigation :: Navigation2DSource
Center navigation. Again, consider navigating to the left. Then we
consider the cone bounded by the two rays shot at 45-degree angles in
north-west and south-west direction from the center of the current window. A
window is a candidate to receive the focus if its center lies in this cone.
We choose the window whose center has minimum L1-distance from the current
window center. The tie breaking strategy for windows with the same distance
is a bit complicated (see #Technical_Discussion) but ensures that all
windows can be reached and that windows with the same center are traversed in
their order in the window stack, that is, in the order
focusUp and
focusDown would traverse
fullScreenRect :: Screen -> Window -> X (Maybe Rectangle)Source
Maps each window to a fullscreen rect. This may not be the same rectangle the
window maps to under the Full layout or a similar layout if the layout
respects statusbar struts. In such cases, it may be better to use
singleWindowRect :: Screen -> Window -> X (Maybe Rectangle)Source
Maps each window to the rectangle it would receive if it was the only window in the layout. Useful, for example, for determining the default rectangle for unmapped windows in a Full layout that respects statusbar struts.
switchLayer :: X ()Source
Switches focus to the closest window in the other layer (floating if the current window is tiled, tiled if the current window is floating). Closest means that the L1-distance between the centers of the windows is minimized.
windowGo :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()Source
Moves the focus to the next window in the given direction and in the same layer as the current window. The second argument indicates whether navigation should wrap around (e.g., from the left edge of the leftmost screen to the right edge of the rightmost screen).
windowSwap :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()Source
Swaps the current window with the next window in the given direction and in
the same layer as the current window. (In the floating layer, all that
changes for the two windows is their stacking order if they're on the same
screen. If they're on different screens, each window is moved to the other
window's screen but retains its position and size relative to the screen.)
The second argument indicates wrapping (see
windowToScreen :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()Source
Moves the current window to the next screen in the given direction. The
second argument indicates wrapping (see
screenGo :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()Source
Moves the focus to the next screen in the given direction. The second
argument indicates wrapping (see
screenSwap :: Direction2D -> Bool -> X ()Source
Swaps the workspace on the current screen with the workspace on the screen
in the given direction. The second argument indicates wrapping (see
data Direction2D Source
Two-dimensional directions:


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MADISON, Wis. – Senior Maksim Korolev finished second out of 288 of the nation's top runners, as Harvard was the lone school to put two runners in the top-10 at the Wisconsin adidas Inviational Saturday at Zimmer Championship Course.
The Crimson men finished 13th overall (24:04 average time), as Korolev led the runners with an 8K time of 23:14, just two seconds behind winner Kemoy Campbell of Arkansas. Senior James Leakos placed 10th with a time of 23:33. Sophomore Tom Purnell posted a time of 24:10 (66th), followed by sophomore Chris Allen (24:38) and junior Will Geiken (24:43).
Paced by senior Morgan Kelly, Harvard women ranked 18th overall at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational with an average time of 21:08. Kelly crossed in 20:39 to rank 49th of 288 runners. Junior Viviana Hanley crossed in 20:55 to rank 74th. Senior Emily Reese (21:09) and sophomore Selena Pasadyn (21:21) rounded out the top four for the Crimson.
"I'm really pleased with how both of our men's and women's teams performed this weekend," said Jason Saretsky, The William W. "Bill" McCurdy Director of Track and Field/Cross Country. "This was a great step as we head into the championship part of our schedule."
At the Princeton Invitational, the Harvard women's squad placed ninth (22:42 average) and was paced by junior Molly Renfer with a fifth-place finish of 206 runners and a time of 21:41. Senior Lauren DiNicola crossed the finish line with a time of 22:33 (36th). Freshman Stephanie Deccy finished four seconds later to place 42nd. Sophomores Paige Kouba (23:01) and Emma Payne (23:35) finished 67th and 99th, respectively.
The Crimson men also ranked ninth with an average time of 24:58, as junior Adam Cotton posted a time of 24:44 to finish 42nd overall and first of the Harvard runners. Sophomore Johnny Marvin crossed just after Cotton (24:48) to place 41st of 272 runners. Junior Ryan Meehan (24:54), freshman Brandon Price (25:08) and junior Connor Reck (25:16) rounded out the top five runners for Harvard.
Harvard will be back in action on Saturday, Nov. 2, in pursuit of a men's and women's Ivy title at Heptagonals. The meet will be held at Princeton.


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The pictures were the centerpiece: Photos of Palestinian journalists beaten, arrested, bleeding and screaming, journalists subjected to horror simply for practicing their craft. For doing their jobs.
The pictures hung on a metal structure created for the demonstration. West Bank journalists gathered in central Ramallah in support of a global call to action to end impunity for people who attack journalists.
The International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of advocacy groups working for greater press freedom internationally, called for 23 actions across the globe in 23 days, leading up to the International Day to End Impunity on Nov. 23.
On each of the 23 days, the Day to End Impunity website highlighted a different person who has been attacked, tortured or arrested for sharing information. Nov. 8, was dedicated to Jaffar Ishtayeh, a Palestinian photojournalist who suffered frequent repression from the Israeli military. According to IFEX, Ishtayeh has been arrested, beaten with batons and hit in the back with a tear gas canister while covering demonstrations in Palestine. Reporters Without Borders ranks the Palestinian Territories as 153 in press freedom out of 179 countries measured. (America is No. 47.)
The demonstration in Ramallah was organized by the Palestinian Media Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA, for its acronym in Arabic), a group dedicated to greater press freedom in the Occupied Territories. Riham Abu Aita, the spokesperson for MADA, said the demonstration's goal was "to let the world know about Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists."
"For example, in the past 10 years, (the Israeli military) killed at least 20 journalists, in addition to other forms of violation, like gas bombs, pellets, beatings," she said.
Palestinian security forces are also guilty of human-rights violations against journalists, Aita said, although these violations are usually not as destructive, and Palestinian security forces are less likely to kill journalists. She said the severity of violations committed by Palestinian forces increased after the 2007 split between Gaza's elected government of Hamas and the West Bank's ruling Fatah party.
Clearly, one demonstration in Ramallah will not end attacks against journalists in the West Bank. And as the Day to End Impunity website makes clear, this is a global problem.
But the demonstration was one small step toward a world with true freedom of the press globally. And the pictures MADA hung in Ramallah made certain that, for one day at least, the sacrifices so many people have made in the cause of spreading information were not forgotten.
Andrew Beale, an Alibi contributor and native New Mexican, works as a freelance journalist in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Look for more of his work in the print edition on stands Dec. 6.


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High Hopes Carousel Ball
Barbara Davis, center, with Gail Johnson, left, president of The Guild of the Children's Diabetes Foundation at Denver and High Hopes Award recipient Arlene Hirschfeld. Photo by Steve Peterson, Special to The Denver Post
What: High Hopes Carousel Ball
When: Sept. 26, 2009
Where: Sheraton Denver Downtown
Result: $800,000 for the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
Chaircouples: Shawn and Deirdre Hunter, Stacy and Jeff Robinson, Julie and Steve Roitman
Starring: Larry King, Shawn King, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Earth, Wind & Fire
Honoring: Arlene Hirschfeld
You can never go home again. Unless your name is Barbara Davis and you're returning to your old stomping grounds to oversee the rebirth of the gala that put Denver on the map, the one and only Carousel Ball.
Well, maybe not same exact Carousel Ball that Davis and her late husband, Marvin, started here 31 years ago. That one starred such legendary entertainers as Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Sammy Davis Jr. and brought in political figures that included presidents, ambassadors and other world leaders.
But it did sparkle, with about 1,000 guests turning out to honor Arlene Hirschfeld and be entertained by CNN talk show host Larry King and his wife, Shawn; Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, and Earth, Wind & Fire.
The Davises (he made his fortune in oil and property development; later, his holdings included ownership of 20th Century Fox, Pebble Beach, the Beverly Hills Hotel and Aspen Skiing Co) established the Carousel Ball as a fundraiser for the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes. It was formed after their daughter, Dana, was diagnosed with diabetes.
The family moved to Beverly Hills in the late 1980s, taking the ball with them. They re-named it Carousel of Hope, and it continues as an every-other-year success that draws the cream of Hollywood. It was Denver's loss, to be sure.
"We did the first three Carousel Balls in this hotel," Barbara Davis told us on Saturday. "It was the Hilton at the time." One of her most vivid memories is that of Lucille Ball's husband Gary Morton making every effort to solicit bids on a Rolex watch that was part of the auction. "He may have thought he was getting bids from the audience, but he was actually bidding against himself. And he wound up buying it."
In previous years, when the High Hopes Carousel Ball was known as the High Hopes Tribute Dinner, Davis was accompanied by one or more of her five children, usually daughters Nancy and Dana. This year, Nancy had a commitment she was obligated to honor and Dana was in Texas for trunk showings of the line of shoes she has designed.
"They're like the Taryn Rose brand, stylish but very comfortable," Davis said, adding that they're also well-received. "She has them in 70 stores."
The Davis sisters each donated to the benefit's silent auction. Dana gave a $450 ced a triple emerald certificate good toward a pair of her shoes, with the opportunity to name a future design; Nancy contributed a triple emerald choker, set in white gold and diamonds, from her Peace & Love Jewelry collection.
The Sheraton ballroom, where a beef filet and salmon dinner was served, was decorated in shades of pink by a design team from Bouquets. Owners BJ Dyer and Guenther Vogt had their hands full that night: They'd just returned from Phoenix, where they received their second Marketer of the Year award (an industry record) from the Society of American Florists, and in addition to High Hopes, they also were in charge of decorating the Seawell Ballroom for Beatles Bash, an event taking place simultaneously at the DCPA.
"It's too bad both of these fun events were scheduled for the same night," Dyer said, "but on the plus side, it's a testament to Denver's strength in supporting worthy causes."
Guests at High Hopes included Gov. Bill and Jeannie Ritter; Mayor John Hickenlooper; Dr. Jules Amer, the pediatrician who diagnosed Dana Davis with diabetes; Dr. George Eisenbarth, executive director of the Barbara Davis Center; former Colorado first lady Frances Owens; John and Anna Sie; Michelle Sie Whitten; Larry Mizel; Norm Brownstein; Sharon Magness Blake and Ernie Blake; CBS4's Ed Green, who was given the title "host," but was more of a master of ceremonies, the descriptor reserved for Larry King; and attorney Doug Tisdale, who called the live auction.
Tisdale, there with girlfriend Lynne Hamstra, had no trouble coaxing four- and five-figure bids for the live auction items that included a trip to London to see the Jonas Brothers in concert and a visit to Los Angeles for the 2010 Carousel of Hope Ball. He also blew the roof off the paddle-raiser segment by landing $100,000 in pledges when the goal had been to raise $30,000.
Pam Diamond resisted any urge to participate in the bidding, and why not? She'd accessorized her black velvet evening gown with Harry Winston diamond earrings purchased at an earlier Carousel Ball.
Carol Roger, a Realtor who'd sold the Davises' Devonshire Heights home following their move to Southern California, recalled an auction item she'd purchased at one of the LA Carousel Balls. "It was a round of golf with Sidney Poitier and O.J. Simpson that I'd gotten for my husband. But before I could collect on it …"
Roger's "date" for High Hopes was Vivian Guzofsky, a past chair of one of the Denver Carousel Balls. "People come out of the woodwork every time Barbara comes to town," Guzofsky said as the looked out at the crowd filling the Sheraton ballroom.
Familiar faces included Nancy and Dr. Les Lockspeiser (she's the artist who designed the original Carousel Ball logo that is still in use today); Katie Stapleton and Patrick Coulson; Sue Cannon; Jordon and Essie Perlmutter; Warren and Ruth Toltz; Ted and Marsha Alpert; Tom and Cydney Marsico; Ted and Cindy Halaby; Larry and Marilyn Atler; Skip and Nancy Miller; Fred and Roxanne Vierra; Mary and Dr. Richard Krugman; David and Bonnie Mandarich; Peter and Cathy Culshaw; Al and Jamie Angelich; Dr. Michael Salem; Sheila and Dr. Gary Gutterman; David and Ricki Rest; Rick and Sheila Bugdanowitz; Howard and Susan Noble; Ed and Lee Palmer Everding; Bob and Kalleen Malone; Dick and Marcia Robinson; John and Lisa Robinson; Mark and Ellen Robinson Schwartz; Sharon Kamen; Pam and Dr. John Grossman; Evan and Evi Makovsky; Craig Fleishman and Layne Hunt; Don and Mary Lou Kortz; silent auction chairs Gretchen Pope, Lisa Corley, Sally Frerichs and Jan Rosen; Melly Kinnard; Steve and Robin Chotin; Paul Esserman; Allied Jewish Federation chief Doug Seserman and his wife, Susan; Denver City Council members Carla Madison and Charlie Brown; and Diane Huttner, who, like Barbara Davis, had her hair done for the occasion by James Mucker of Salon Utopia.
Later, Davis would further endear herself to the crowd by observing: "Beauty isn't found only in cities where movies are made. It's abundant in cities filled with people who have kind hearts, fantastic cities like Denver."
Arlene Hirschfeld, honored for her years of service to both the community and the Barbara Davis Center, was introduced by her husband of 43 years, Barry, and was accompanied by son and daughter-in-law Hayden and Elana Hirschfeld.
Hayden and Elana recently made his parents first-time grandparents, with the birth of their son, Emery William. The baby is grandchild No. 6 for Elana's parents, Bob and Diane Hochstadt, also were at High Hopes, sharing a table with Dr. Eisenbarth and his wife, Frieda.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Wednesday's Child - Goldrine DeGrave
I don't believe there are any DeGraves in my family tree's direct line, but we've got plenty of Hermans to go around. Perhaps the article was clipped because it had to do with Orville and a dear friend (or girlfriend).
There was no date on the article apart from a handwritten "1949" at the bottom. Christmas in 1949 was on Sunday and the accident occurred on a Sunday. Perhaps "Christmas night" actually meant Christmas Eve.
Either way, today we remember Goldrine DeGrave. A beautiful young woman that was taken away from her loved ones at far too young and age.
"Goldrine DeGrave, above, 16-year-old Fairland girl, was killed in an automobile accident near Luxemburg Sunday morning. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William DeGrave.
Tire Blowout Fatal
A tire blowout at 6 o'clock Sunday morning apparently caused the death of Goldrine DeGrave, 16-year-old Fairland girl. The driver of the car, Orville Hermans, 17, of Tonet, is in a serious condition in St. Vincent hospital in Green Bay.
Skid marks showed how the car left the road and crashed into a machine shed on County Trunk A about 2 1/2 miles north of Luxemburg in Kewaunee county. Fred Cravillion is owner of the shed.
There were no witnesses to the accident. The Cravillions were just getting out of bed and heard the crash, as did Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frisque across the road. Mrs. Cravillion said that the girl was still conscious when she got there a few minutes later, but died by the time a doctor arrived.
The Hermans youth had spent Christmas night at the DeGrave home. He and the girl left early so that he could take the girl to his own home in Tonet, where she planned to spend Sunday, before reporting for work at the Badger creamery in Luxemburg.
The body was taken to the McMahon Funeral home in Luxemburg, and was removed to the DeGrave residence today. The rosary will be recited at 8 o'clock tonight and Tuesday night. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning in St. Louis Catholic church, Dyckesville, with the Rev. Ludolph Jacobs officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Goldrine DeGrave was born in the town of Red River, Kewaunee county, June 13, 1932. Besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William DeGrave, she is survived by four brothers, Myron, Marvin, Melvin, and Milton, all at home; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeGrave, town of Red River, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli DuBoise, Fairland."
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Reading a recent blog post from MamaStephF's Blog, set off a craving for me. I
wanted NEEDED some grits. You could kiss my whatever, but I had to have a bowl of that creamy ground corn porridge.
I must admit that I am a relative new-comer to grits. I first sampled them during a trip to Texas to visit a dear friend. After a night of oh-so-much fun, we hit the Waffle House for some fortification. I only had eyes for the grits on the menu, and sprinkled with a little sugar and a pat of butter, I scarfed them down with record speed. I was head over heels in love. Fast-forward to my return home and I bought a tub of grits during my next shopping excursion. However, they sat in the pantry for a very long time before I took the plunge to make them myself. The first time was as a base for a pan-seared tilapia and veggie dish. I could have kissed the pot I boiled them in. It really was love.
So of course, I wanted to try the Creamy Parmesan Grits with Rosemary Bacon that I discovered while flipping through an old issue of Gourmet magazine (R.I.P.). The bacon is baked in the oven to crisp perfection with the rosemary offering a woody tone to the smokey meat. Grits are simmered with half and half for optimum creaminess, and Parmesan cheese is stirred in at the finish for salty, nutty depth of flavor. Topping it all with a runny egg completes an absolutely outstanding breakfast plate. Trust me. You will want to kiss me for some Creamy Parmesan Grits with Rosemary Bacon On My Plate.
Creamy Parmesan Grits with Rosemary Bacon
1 tablespoon rosemary leaves
8 thick-cut bacon slices
2 1/2 cups water
1 1/2 cups half and half
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 cup quick-cooking grits
kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
4 eggs
Preheat oven to 450°F with rack in middle.
Place bacon on a rack that fits over a sided cookie sheet.
Sprinkle rosemary over bacon.
Roast, turning once, until bacon is golden, 12 to 14 minutes.
Drain on paper towels.
Meanwhile, bring water, cream, butter, salt, and pepper to a simmer in a heavy medium saucepan.
Add grits in a slow stream, whisking constantly.
Simmer over medium-low heat, covered, stirring often, until grits are tender and creamy, 10 to 12 minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in cheese.
While grits are simmering, fry or poach eggs to your liking. (Runny yolks are the best.)
Serve grits topped with the egg and bacon on the side. (Serves 4)


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OK, let's see if I can contribute another potential stickie thread of use to the community. Since skin issues are EVEN MORE a universal issue than UTI's, therefore, I propose we use this thread to contribute what we found to be successful for each of us. This doesn't replace a doctor's visit or wound care consult, just tips and pointers that worked for us. There are a range of issues here so I suggest you bold in the upper title box what particular stage, issue you are contributing for.
Most of us in the summer time have issues with heat rash. I have to worry about it year round so here is what I do. I use a paste mixture of Desitin
and Caldesene powder. Both of these contain zinc oxide and after applying to groin, I put some extra powder on top. No issues, no problems.
In the summer I use Zeasorb (anti-fungal) powder ONLY (no paste) which apparently gives cancer to mice in California. (I'm a man in New Jersey so I should be fine)
I do not use a paste because it just gets swampy.
There is another powder on the market that I have not tried. Anti-Monkeybutt (I shit you not) It is a Calamine lotion powder that race car drivers use. It is a little pricey so until it comes down a little, I'll skip it.
Besides pressure reliefs, diet is key. When I was at Magee, I met their Nutritionist who worked on the team to develop specific supplements
to treat and prevent pressure sores.
Pro-source plus (packet or liquid) provides 15 grams of gluten and lactose free protein per two tablespoons. It isn't cheap, 4 32oz bottles cost me $113 but only $4 shipping. As long as your diet allows, you could save more money by going with a weight trainers protein mix (Muscle Milk etc) that would taste better and put some weight on you if at high risk. (I have a gluten issue so I need to get my protein from Hemp, Milk,[lactose free] Meat or Eggs.)
Other products helped develop at Magee are Vitament, ArgiMent and Argiten
these are often combined and as far as I know, used at every stage of sore.
Here is the best priced website I have found that would give more info.


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This Day in History: Pratt & Whitney Powers F9F-6 Cougars on Record Breaking Flight
Pratt & Whitney J48 jet engines broke records 60 years ago when they powered three Grumman F9F-6 Cougars from San Diego to New York. On April 1, 1954, Lt. Cmdr. Francis X. Brady flew the lead Cougar across the 2,438-mile route in three hours, 45 minutes and 30 seconds. The three Cougars bettered the old transcontinental time by more than 20 minutes.
The J48 engine started production in 1950. At that time, it was the most powerful turbojet in the United States, providing 6,250 pounds of dry static thrust and up to 8,750 pounds with afterburner and water injection. It powered the Navy's F9F-5 Panther and F9F-6 Cougar manufactured by Grumman, as well as the Air Force's Lockheed F-94C Starfire and North American F-93A. The J48 engine was active during the Korean Conflict in the early 50s, along with the company's product line of piston engines.


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ILIFF — The Caliche Buffaloes picked up another win on Saturday night as they beat the Sedgwick County Cougars 66-56 to jumps to 3-1 in the Lower Platte League and 11-3 overall.
The win was even more important in light of the fact that the Buffs play three games in four days this week as they host Merino Saturday and then head to Wiggins on Monday.
The Buffs looked like they might run away with it early. The team doubled up Sedgwick in the final seconds of the first quarter with a Kyle Gandee three followed by a Gandee jumper that left Caliche ahead 18-9. But Sedgwick's Chase Dunker hit a buzzer beating three at the end of the first to make it a six-point game.
Behind two straight buckets by Mitch Davison, another three by Gandee, a lay up by Dakota Kingsly and a free throw by Davison, the Buffs were up 29-16, the largest lead of the game yet, halfway through the second quarter.
Then Sedgwick would score nine straight and then trade buckets through the back of the second quarter.
Caliche got back a comfortable lead with three straight free throws by Gandee to end the quarter with Caliche scoring 20 and a late three by Tykle Woodhams giving Sedwick 21. Caliche lead 38-33 at the half.
The Buffs were 19-of-23 from the foul line in the first half. A big improvement for the team that struggled with it's percentage in the last two games.
The tide would ebb and flow late in the game but Caliche would keep up enough solid runs to stay ahead.
"They are a solid young team. Better than their record," said Caliche coach Randy Kirkwood. "But I was still pleased with our effort. I thought we played hard and played pretty well."
Gandee led Caliche with 21 points and Davison had 18 in the win. They were the only two Buffs in double figures with Austin Yahn, Kingsly, Chase Debus and Cole Kuskie contributing points as well.
With game against Merino and Wiggins coming, Kirkwood emphasized the kids need to be on their toes.
"I told the kids all three of these teams have under .500 records, but they all can surprise you. Merino especially has a couple of kids that can score 50-60 points between them and some other nice guys there as well. But Merino/Caliche is still a rivalry game and I think that our kids will be up for it," said Kirkwood.


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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Forest Service chief is proposing replacing 15 percent of the nation's gasoline with ethanol made from wood, while doubling the amount of carbon dioxide emissions absorbed by public and private forests.
"These are ambitious goals, and they would take a concerted national effort to reach," Forest Service Chief Abigail Kimbell said in remarks prepared for a speech before the Society of Environmental Journalists Friday night in San Francisco.
They also appear contradictory. But such a plan is consistent with President Bush's goal cutting gasoline use by 20 percent while expanding reliance on ethanol, which is a central part of his energy policy. He has sent Congress a proposal mandating the use of 35 billion gallons a year of "alternative" fuels, mostly ethanol, by 2017.
Kimbell said that "with the technologies now becoming available, we could replace as much as 15 percent of our current gasoline consumption with ethanol from wood -- and not just any wood, but wood that is not now being used for other purposes."
In 2006, motorists used 143 billion gallons of gasoline, 136 billion gallons of which was produced by U.S. refineries.
Bio-fuel from small trees, underbrush
Kimbell said small-diameter trees and underbrush can be used to heat homes, generate electricity and power cars.
"Forests can provide renewable bio-fuels that can replace fossil fuels like coal and oil," Kimbell said. "This will reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere while diminishing our dependence on foreign fuel sources."
The Forest Service estimates that the nation's forests -- both public and private -- offset about 10 percent of carbon emissions in the United States. "I propose a national effort to double that amount by 2020," Kimbell said.
While carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas, amounts of it have been increasing sharply since the beginning of the industrial age. It is produced by fossil fuels burned in manufacturing plants, motor vehicles and power plants.
Trees absorb carbon dioxide, but the science for measuring how much is unsettled. The Forest Service manages 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands -- an area equivalent to the size of Texas.
Fire prevention a source of fuel?
Asked how the nation could churn out vastly more wood for ethanol while rapidly growing more forests, Kimbell's spokeswoman, Allison Stewart, said in an interview Friday night that the wood for ethanol would come mainly from brush that the Bush administration's "healthy forests" law now requires to be thinned to prevent wildfires.
"A lot of our forests across our country are unhealthy because they're overstocked. There's a lot of unhealthy underbrush," Stewart said. "That's where we're talking about getting the bio-energy from. It's from the reduction of flammable fuels in the forests -- instead of just burning it up in piles or grinding it up."
At the same time, Stewart said, the Forest Service is "doing a lot of replanting of new forests, where there are no forests now." Most of those, she added, are in areas cleared out by wildfires, floods and other calamities of nature.
The Forest Service already is teaming with the nonprofit National Forest Foundation to allow consumers to participate in a voluntary program to "offset" their carbon dioxide emissions by making charitable contributions that will be used to plant trees and do other work to improve national forests. Several such reforestation projects have been identified in the Custer National Forest in Montana and South Dakota and in the Payette National Forest in Idaho.
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I wonder whether it is possible or not to show thumbs of different galleries in a shadowbox-screen and whether it is possible or not to click that thumb and get (re)directed to that specific gallery which will start in the same shadowbox screen.
If I make a simple Thumb Gallery by default (described in pdf-manual), does shadowbox generate thumbs itself or do I have to create thumbs by myself?
I've tried to do these things above but I don't get it work the right way.
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I'm back everyone with another drawing lesson for you all and like I said before with my last one, I have a lot more coming. This next lesson is going to be on how to draw a chocolate dipped strawberry step by step. Now I know that this may seem like an odd lesson for me to submit but I am trying to draw things that pertain to Valentine's Day. This will be the last drawing related to February 14th because I don't want to do a bunch of stuff that will bore easily. So to keep things exciting and new, I not only drew a chocolate dipped strawberry, I also drew a girl's mouth ready to eat the delicious fruit. I don't know why but, candied dipping sauce has become such an "in thing" for all different kinds of fruits. There is even dipping sauce for bananas, apples, pineapples, oranges, and other fruit that is usually sweet and watery. There is no difficult part to draw for this lesson. You will learn how to draw a strawberry and a mouth at the same time, so if you think about it, you are learning two things in one drawing lesson. I hope you will all like this sketch. I did have a wicked fun time drawing it out because making fruit is always fun. You will learn how to draw a chocolate dipped strawberry step by step with easy to follow steps and simple to read instructions. I will be back in a short while with more drawing fun so stay tuned to see what else comes your way. Peace out!
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Why Won't Copyright Holders Run Studies On The Actual Impact Of Piracy?
from the wouldn't-they-want-to-know deptA bunch of folks have sent in this recent O'Reilly Radar interview with Brian O'Leary, concerning the data on the impact of ebook "piracy," with many pointing to the following quote:
Data that we collected for the titles O'Reilly put out showed a net lift in sales for books that had been pirated. So, it actually spurred, not hurt, sales.Of course, if you read the details, he's actually saying this is from a study from a couple years ago, and the focus of his point is that there really isn't enough data to say yet. He's hoping that other publishers will work with him to do more research on this subject, but so far, they haven't.
O'Leary, correctly, points out that there are lot of factors involved and it would be nice to have more data to look at the actual impact. But what really struck me is that line about how publishers simply aren't willing to collect the data and study the actual impact of unauthorized copies. I'm trying to figure out why this is. There are so many copyright holders who whine and complain about the impact of unauthorized copies, that you would think they would be all over the idea of working with some researchers to figure out the actual impact (good or bad), so that they can respond accordingly. That they refuse to do so seems oddly telling. It's as if they don't want to know. I can only speculate as to why, but as a guess, I would imagine that some firms are afraid of finding out that the impact isn't as bad as they think (or, as O'Reilly discovered, that it's positive on sales, rather than negative), and suddenly they've lost their "bogeyman" that they've been able to blame poor sales on.
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When it comes to women's health and nutrition, Dr. Michele Cyr, MD has literally written the book. Co-author of The Complete Book of Menopause: Every Woman's Guide to Good Health, Dr. Cyr constantly dispels the myths about menopause and offers women facts they need to take charge of their own health, now and in years to come. The book was selected by both Prevention and Consumer Reports for their book clubs, and was called "the Bible of menopause" by American Health.
As the recipient of more than 15 postgraduate honors and awards, Dr. Cyr has received more than four million dollars in training and research grants. She has published more than 40 articles, studies and chapters in various books and medical journals, including the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Additionally, she is on the faculty for the Harvard Medical School Primary Care of Women Course for health professionals. Dr. Cyr has been interviewed by various consumer publications, including Redbook, Prevention magazine and Hippocrates, in which she offers advice to women on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle at every age. She has appeared on NBC's Dateline, Lifetime Medical and WBGH-TV's The Group.
Currently Dr. Cyr serves as director of the division of general internal medicine, associate dean for graduate medical education, and associate professor of medicine at Brown University School of Medicine. Dr. Cyr is also director of the division of general internal medicine and the primary care internal medicine residency program at Rhode Island Hospital.
After graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with an art and biochemistry degree from Bowdoin College, Dr. Cyr earned her medical degree with honors from Dartmouth Medical School. She completed her internship and residency at Maine Medical Center, and has attended training programs at both Stanford and Harvard Universities.


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In the last week four out of five services – the Marine Corps, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard – have halted their servicemember tuition assistance programs thanks to sequestration. The Navy is the only service still offering the benefit to its members. But what about the spouses?
DoD is silent on the fate of MyCAA, the tuition assistance program offered to military spouses regardless of branch.
"... Because of the current fiscal situation, we are evaluating all programs across the department," Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde told us. "At this time, I have no specific announcements to make related to MyCAA."
Still experts on education program funding expect DoD to announce any day that they will close MyCAA.
"I would expect DoD to suspend MyCAA very soon," Terry Howell, Military.com's education benefits expert, told us. "Like (tuition assistance) the DoD is being very quiet about their next moves."
If MyCAA is suspended the same way the servicemember tuition assistance programs have been, those who are currently enrolled in courses will not be impacted.But no one will be able to enroll in new classes unless the program is restored.
But whether or not it would come back may even be in question. DoD officials told me in 2012 that an expansion of the program was out of the question due to funding constraints. And now that we're in a belt tightening era programs like MyCAA may be the first to go permanently.
"I think the longevity of the MyCAA program has long been in question, not just because of recent budget cuts, but because of the question of how effective this program is," said Bianca Stzalkowski, founder of the Military Spouse Education Initiative. "I believe MyCAA was created as an incentive when we were expanding the Marine Corps and Army, and now that we have to downsize I believe it will go away."
When first launched the scholarship, dubbed Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts or MyCAA, allowed spouses in families of all ranks to receive up to $6,000 in tuition. But the program was so wildly popular with over 130,000 spouses applying within a year of its 2009 opening, that it quickly outpaced its funding. Officials abruptly shuttered the service to new applicants in early 2010, pledging to review and reopen it in the future.
The program was restarted eight months later with drastic benefit cuts and a stiff rank cap barring spouses from most officer and senior enlisted families. The cap was met with a furious outcry from excluded spouses who felt their time in a service family had earned them the benefit.
But the revamping achieved its goal of cutting users. So drastic was the drop in enrollment that DoD asked the Senate to shrink their funding request for the program in fiscal 2102 from $190 million to mere $70 million.
Of that request only $66 million was spent in fiscal 2012. About 37,000 spouses used MyCAA last year, according to DoD.
Officials were not able to get us current MyCAA usage or funding statistics by deadline.
If MyCAA goes away altogether, however, all is not lost Stzalkowski says.
"My reaction to the elimination of the MyCAA would be that spouses can turn to alternative sources of funding for their education that will allow the spouse to choose their own degree path, such as a Pell Grant, scholarships through the Spouse Clubs, branch aid societies, and private organizations like the National Military Family Association and Thanks USA," she said. "Programs like MyCAA that limit a spouse to an Associate's degree do not positively impact a spouse's ability to get the kind of job they desire. If it did, we wouldn't have an approximate 26 percent unemployment rate among our military spouses. If the Department of Defense wants to create an education program it needs to be effective, not just a check in the box to say they are giving a benefit to spouses."
If you're in the market for degree funding or education help or ideas, make sure to check out Stzalkowski's Military Spouse Education Initiative.


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Grievous - Chapter 4
Walkthrough - Grievous - Chapter 4
Chapter 4 - Lair of Grievous[edit]
You'll notice some of your no-good Clones goofing off to the left, so grab your Commander and rally them up by standing next to them and pressing the Action Button when prompted to. Then, move to the gold block ahead, hold the Attack Button, focus your reticule on your golden target, and let go.
After the block is destroyed, a MagnaGuard will come out and destroy your ship. Return the favor by deflecting his rockets back at him and his friend on the right side (lightsaber physics aside). Next, blow up the silver block next to the door and grapple onto the new hook with a Clone. Switch to another Clone and grapple onto the hook on the left side of the door and a puzzle will reveal itself behind the open door.
To solve the puzzle on the wall, use the Force to move the tan blocks onto their respective purple placeholders. Not too difficult, right? When you're inside the dark corridor, you'll notice a chasm that's a bit too wide for you to jump over. Use the Force to take panels from your left and right and place them on the small placeholders in the chasm.
Hop across and destroy the battle droids in the next area. Another chasm is ahead, so repeat the same process and use the panels to assist in your trek across.
Move through the next couple of areas until you're in a white corridor with three white reticules on the ground. Make your way to the end of the hall and move both purple switches to their opposite sockets. Enter the door and you'll be confronted by some of Grievous's Bodyguards. If you lock swords, tap that Attack Button until you emerge the victor (make sure to strike his body down afterwards).
Destroy Bodyguards as necessary, but when you get the chance, grab one of your Clones and grapple the hooks on the objects in the back-left and back-right parts of the room. Destroy everything else in the room and you'll be left with some spare pieces in the center.
Use the Force to fit those pieces into the puzzle on the back wall. Nevermind that you're effectively building your arch nemesis, you Jedi have puzzles to solve!
To attack Grievous, find the block near the front of the room and Force-throw it into Grievous. This should stun him, but you'll need the assistance of one of your Clones to damage him. Switch to either Clone and grapple on to Grievous to remove one of his arms. Repeat this process once more and Grievous will change his strategy.
Grievous will jump to the ceiling, but you'll still be able to throw that respawning block at him. Hit him three times to put his crawling skeleton back on the ground. Hit him thrice more with your lightsaber to convince him to retreat.
Move into the next room and have all four of the characters stand on the red switches. The floor will collapse and you'll need to get back up, but you'll need to employ some Tetris skills. Take the blocks next to you and arrange them on the back panel to climb up and out to the right.
In the next room, you'll come face-to-face with a giant two-legged beast. To conquer it, switch over to a Clone and grapple on to one of its sides. Then, switch over to another Clone and grapple on to the opposite side. To deal some heavy damage, switch over to a Jedi and interact with the blue insignia near the beast's head. Repeat this process a few more times to deal the coup de grace to this eyesore of a villain.
After the quick cut scene, make your way down the hallway and you'll eventually find yourself outside. First, take out both of Grievous's Bodyguards. Then, head to the left where you'll find a generator of some sort plugged into a wall. Use the Force to remove the plug from the generator. Then, put those midi-chlorians to work once more by moving the entire generator to the end of its path in the background.
You'll need to put together a satellite to the left of the path. First, use the Force to remove the top from that contraption on the left. Then put together the loose pieces behind the base and then move it on top of the base. Then, take the dish from the right side and put it on top to complete your satellite. Plug it in to your generator to witness the power of electricity. For your troubles, Grievous will appear and challenge you to another fight.
Fight him off until your escape ship arrives and you'll be treated to the level's final (dramatic) cut scene.


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