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This paper discusses the potential for radically improving cost efficiency with a well thought-out Software Asset Management (SAM) strategy. It aims to improve understanding of the SAM discipline, including the challenges it poses as well as the tactical and strategic advantages it offers. And, it lays out a high-level plan for you to architect your own SAM approach, drawing on proven solutions that can help you optimize the returns on your software investments.
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Over the past four years, the farm bill has been an agenda item at every NPC meeting, including the Potato D.C. Fly-In where we lobby Congress on our issues.
I've personally traveled tens of thousands of miles to speak at dozens of state meetings urging growers to contact their members of Congress in support of agriculture policy that benefits specialty crop growers. NPC has written countless columns, press releases, and social media posts imploring those in the industry to not give up the fight.
At last, we can all breathe a sigh of relief at a job well done.
This afternoon, the U.S. Senate passed the Agricultural Act of 2014 (more commonly referred to as the 2014 Farm Bill) by a vote of 68 to 32. This follows last week's action by the House, which passed the bill by a wide bipartisan vote of 251-166. The measure now goes to the president, who has indicated he will sign it into law.
The 2014 Farm Bill is nothing short of a tremendous victory for potato growers and our specialty crop partners who have labored to preserve the gains made in the last farm bill go-round in 2008. At a time when the purse strings have tightened for virtually every other federal program, this new investment made to the specialty crop industry in this farm bill is nothing short of unprecedented.
In fact, the bill contains a 55 percent increase in new resources dedicated to specialty crop priorities, making it the most significant government investment ever in the competitiveness of the fruit and vegetable industry.
Key funding provisions of the legislation include:* An increase to $80 million in annual mandatory funding for the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI), which has provided funding for critical potato research, including zebra chip, acrylamide, and Potato virus Y (PVY);
* An increase to $72.5 million in FY 2014-2017 and $85 million in FY 2018 in funding for Specialty Crop Block Grants, which provide funding for state-specific projects that can promote and research potatoes;
* Reauthorization of $200 million per year in Market Access Program (MAP) funding, which provides funding for specialty crops, including potatoes, to promote U.S. agriculture in foreign markets; and,
* Reauthorization of $9 million per year in Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) funding, which addresses foreign market access barriers that block the export of U.S. agricultural products, including potatoes, from their intended destinations.
Once the odd man out, the specialty crop industry earned respect in Washington, D.C. by demonstrating its value in providing the nutrition, jobs, and economic activity our country needs to stay healthy.
The National Potato Council and our industry allies in the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance have been working for years to pass this bill; however, it would not have happened without the dedication and leadership of the Senate and House agriculture committees who moved heaven and earth to bring this bill to the finish line.
We also want to thank the growers, state associations, and industry partners who met with members of Congress, wrote their representatives, or otherwise helped us make our collective voices heard in Washington, D.C.
Now, after years of effort, we have a five-year farm bill, which will enable America's potato growers to go back to doing what they do best: growing high-quality, nutritious potatoes for America and the rest of the world.


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Fall Master Gardener Program in Cole County (Session 11 of 12)
When: Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Fall Master Gardener Program will be held at the Cole County Extension Center on Monday nights (6 - 9 p.m.) on August 28 through November 20. No class will be held on Labor Day. The fee for the program is $150 + 30 hours of volunteer service. Call The extension center at 573-634-2824 to find out more or email firstname.lastname@example.com You can pay by credit card to reserve your space. All applications are due by Tuesday, August 22 with payment. A decision will be decided on that date if the program will take place, depending on the number of applications. If so, applications will be accepted until August 25.
Some examples of topics taught across the 12 weeks include vegetables, turf, landscaping and flowers. Topics for a given session can be viewed, but may be adjusted. All classes are held at the extension center except for the class on Sept. 18th is at the Cedar City Room in North Jefferson City.
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Ivy Bridge is the codename for Intel's next microprocessor. The Ivy Bridge processor will be a follow-on from the company's successful Second Generation Core (codenamed Sandy Bridge) technology. The Ivy Bridge chips will use the Sandy Bridge architecture, but unlike Sandy Bridge chips, which use Intel's 32 nanometre transistor technology, Ivy Bridge will be built on Intel's 22 nanometre technology.
Ivy Bridge's 22nm transistors will be based on Intel's 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology, which allows for more transistors to be packed into a CPU. The smaller transistors and the new 3-D technology, which will see them sitting closer together, will allow Ivy Bridge to run faster and to be more power efficient than current Sandy Bridge CPUs. Furthermore, it will allow Intel to improve the integrated media and graphics performance of the CPUs.
The new chips will debut in 2012 and will be available for mainstream computers as well as servers. The CPUs for servers will also have integrated storage features.
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Zengoro Falls – Nagano
While visiting Nagano north of Tokyo last month I drove up a narrow mountain road and came upon as small parking lot. Now, people don't build parking lots in the middle of nowhere for no reason and naturally I stopped to check it out. Turns out it was the entrance to a small path leading down to a fall, Zengoro-no-taki, Zengoro Falls (善五郎の滝), one of several falls on the Koonogawa (Koono River). Not the most beautiful of falls, but nevertheless. Being a hardcore Tokyoite I take every opportunity to spend a moment extra in any sort of nature. Being drenched in a fine mist of clear mountain water didn't make things worse either. If you are every up driving in the mountains, remember to take the time to stop at unexpected scenic places! There's tons of hidden gems not marked on your GPS navigator. Enjoy!
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|Graduate Assistant for Academics
Kate Nicewicz returned to Tennessee Tech in July 2012 to a graduate assistant position within the football staff, working with Golden Eagle acamic progress. She is in her second year on the football office staff, and handles a variety of duties including academics and travel.
A native of Sauquoit, N.Y., Nicewicz originally joined the TTU
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She is a 2009 graduate of the University of Rochester with her Bachelor's degree in Communications and Marketing.
At Rochester, Nicewicz participated in JV and Varsity soccer and worked as an assistant in the Sports Information office where she regularly contributed content for use on the university's website and in athletic publications. She also assisted in providing live stats and game coverage for a number of university sports.
While obtaining her B.A. in Communications, Nicewicz participated in an internship with MCLA the Lax Mag beginning in January 2008. She was exposed to all aspects of the production and editing of a new publication, and contributed nationally published content in the form of feature articles, team and player profiles, and game recaps for issues throughout 2008 and 2009.


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Lipscomb softball breaks into top 100 in RPI
April 23, 2008
The Lipscomb softball team (29-22 Overall, 16-6 A-Sun) climbed ten spots in the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) this week to break into the top 100 at No. 94 the NCAA announced on Wednesday.
It is the highest the Lady Bisons have been ranked in the NCAA era.
The RPI is a weighted combination of win-loss record and strength of schedule used to determine NCAA Tornament eligibility and seeding.
The Lady Bisons swept Tennessee State 4-3 and 2-0 on Tuesday and are preparing to take on Western Kentucky in a double header on Wednesday, April 30 at 5 p.m. at Draper Diamond.
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The amount of fame and fortune that Honey Boo Boo and her family have gained from basically being trashy astounds me. Aside from the fact that the family just got a HUGE raise from $5,000 to $7,000 per episode to between $15,000 and $20,000, TLC also recently offered the clan a new home. Ooh ooh! Will Ty Pennington come in and build it over the course of one crazy epic episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition?!
OK, I'm getting ahead of myself. Apparently, momma June isn't into the idea. She likes their house that sits right next to the railroad tracks juuuuust fine. To clarify: Yes, the Boo Boos are refusing a brand spanking new house. A bigger house. A house that probably doesn't reek of old potato chip bags, cheese balls, and farts. Jeez, maybe they are rednecks.
If that's not a sign that they haven't been impacted by fame, then shoot -- I don't know what is. It's actually kinda admirable.
I think June's trying to be a good momma. Her kids know this house and they are used to it. If she were to uproot the whole family into a different environment, maybe it wouldn't be as comfortable. In my eyes, it all comes back to the fact that, yes, this family is extremely southern, extremely redneck, and despite the fame, they aren't trying to change that. Heck, there's no use in pretending to be someone you're not, right?
Besides, I don't know about all of you, but I love watching them just the way they are. I can smell the stale corn chips buried beneath the cushions of that icky sofa they love chilling on just thinking about 'em. Gross, but that's some seriously good TV.
Do you think Honey Boo Boo's family is silly not to take the new house?
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Fire officers collared a dog that was stuck 40 feet down a quarry and reunited canine and owner.
The pooch was stuck in the quarry off New Street, Southowram, and a specialist technical rescue officer was mobilised to assess the incident and requested a technical support vehicle and pump.
The incident happened around 8.50pm last night (Sunday) and the team from Cleckheaton was lowered 40 feet to the dog. The pooch was safely reunited with its owner.


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Light and Bright: 10 Sorbet Recipes and Other Non-Dairy Frozen Treats
Sorbet is an all-season treat, but my love for it really doesn't hit its peak until the languid months of mid-summer, when ice cream starts to feel a bit too rich, too heavy for my torpid existence. I need something light, cool, and juicy, and sorbet is exactly it. However, this makes it a lovely treat for late spring, too. Here are a few favorite sorbet recipes from our archives, along with a few other special non-dairy frozen treats. (Sweet wine slushies, anyone?)
• 1 Spring Dessert Recipe: Strawberry and Honey Sorbet
• 2 Plum Sorbet with Lemon Verbena Cream
• 3 Summer's End Nectarine Sorbet
• 4 20-Minute Almond Berry Sorbet
• 5 Recipe Review: Yogurt Sorbet from Patricia Wells
• 6 Spiced Apple Cider Sorbet
• 7 Try This at Home: Influenza Sorbet from Jeni's
• 8 Sweet Wine Slushies: One Ingredient, Elegant, & Easy
• 9 Recipe: Faloodeh (Persian Rose Water Ice)
• 10 Weekend Project: Make Granita!
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I am in need of a custom script for my website. It is working fine without the script but I'd like to have more control over it. Below is what I need. Contact me if you can do it and how long will it take and price:
Detailed explanation:
I will be describing below what I need to be done as a custom script. The script is quite simple but will work really good for people who needs to give virtual courses in the Internet. This script, I am pretty sure, can also be used for many other users in the Internet.
1. The user needs to signup for the services and input a username and password. So we can control what each user does in the site. A .htaccess can be used so its easy to get their name as a remote_user environment variable.
2. In the signup the following information is required:
· Name
· Lastname
· Birthday
· E-mail
· Who recommended ? (Magazine, Banner, email etc – configurable)
· Username
· Password
· Receive e-mail in text format or html format ? (An option for the user)
3. When the information is saved it is necessary to also save the date the user has signup, because this date will be used to given him access to the classes. That will work as follow:
· When the user log in, the script will see how many days ago he have signup, and based in that information he will redirect him to a specific page in the directory. (This information will be set by admin only, beforehand). Example:
a. Let's suppose that the classes are given every 2 to 3 days after the last one.
b. Paul has just signup up. And got a confirmation password by e-mail. After he complete the signup process and logs in. The script will see in the database (let's use for now just a text file, I don't think it will be necessary right now to use an sql, let's make it simple), that he has signup 0 days ago, so he will send him to page welcome.htm.
c. If he logs in the next day. The script will see that he has signed up 1 day ago, so he will still send him to page welcome.htm
d. IF he logs the day after that, the script will see the has signed up 2 days ago, so now the script will send him to page: class2.htm
e. If he logs in 10 days later, the script will notice the signed up 10 days ago and will redirect him to class5.htm and so on.
f. Based on the time he has signed up he will be redirected to a specific page.
4. Every day or night, by cron or by starting a specific script. The program will check what user has been granted access to a new class and will send him an email noticing him about that. This messages will be configured by admin and need to be send in text format or html format, depending on the user choice.
5. From time to time, the course will have a test to verify that the user has study and completely understood the past lessons. So the admin sets like:
· Class 8 will be granted access 18 days after signed up.
· Class 9 will be granted access 20 days after signed up, but this will be a test day. So until user has complete the test he cannot proceed forward. The test will always be two types of questions configure by admin.
a. First type, multiple choice like: Question 1 – Who discovered America ? Answers: a, b, c, d, e. The users has to choose one and only one ?
b. Second type, true and false question. Example: Mark below only the answers that you think is true, the ones that are false leave blank. 4th of july is a holyday because: answers a, b, c, d, e. (The right ones are b, d and e. So the user has to check only b, d, e.
· The question value will also be configured by admin, so as soon as the user has finished the test the script will give him his grade ( a number between 0 and 10), his actual average (the average is the sum of all the past tests divided by the number of testes given) and based on the average or in the test grade the user will be send to a specific page or will get his account on hold having access only to previous classes and in a week (time configured by admin) will remake the test. If he gets a good grade will have access to class 10.
· Class 11 will be granted access 2 days after test (not signed up anymore)
· Class 12 will be granded access 4 days after test and so on.
· A popup quiz, every 10 time the user has logged in (time configured by admin) a popup question will be necessary to go on. If he chooses the right anwer half point will be added to his average and will be granted access to the lesson. If he chooses the wrong answer, half point will be lost in his average, but he still get access to the lesson. (If the user closes the page and logs again he will be prompt with the popup quiz again, he has to answer it in order to continue) This question will be random choose from question pre-configured by admin. Will not be the same one always.
· A class can also be configure to be given access if an average is higher than a specific number. Example Class 15, if average > 7 grants access, else go to test page ( 3 questions every 2 days, randomly choose and half point in the average for each right question and half point down of each wrong question. The user can choose to not answer one question if he thinks he does not know the answer, so he does not lose any point in a wrong question.) After test if checks again, if averave > than 7 grants access, else go to a test page. If he has already done the test a message will be show, Please study more and previous lessons and remake the test 2 days later. ( a message will be sent in right day informing him that the test is again up)
6. About the automatic messages that will be sent to the users:
· The admin will configure the time the users will have to wait between classes. Example:
a. Class 1 – 0 days after signed
b. Class 2 – 2 days after signed
c. Class 3 – 4 days after signed
d. Class 4 – 6 days after signed
e. Class 5 – 10 days after signed
f. Class 6 – 12 days after signed
g. Class 7 – 15 days after signed
h. Class 8 – TEST
i. Class 9 – 0 days after test if average is okay.
j. Class 10 – 2 days after test
k. Class 11 – 4 days after test
l. Class 12 – 6 days after test
m. Class 13 – 10 days after test
n. Class 14 – TEST
o. Class 15 – 0 days after test if average is okay.
p. Class 16 – 2 days after test
q. Class 17 – 3 days after test
r. Class 18 – 5 days after test
s. Class 19 – 10 days after test
· If a user does not logs in and 2 days later there is a new lesson, it does not matter he will still be redirect to the new lesson not the old anymore.
· The message will be written by admin like that:
a. Class 1 – A text message and a Html message
b. Class 2 - – A text message and a Html message
c. Class 3 – A text message and a Html message
d. Class 4 – A text message and a Html message
e. And so on.
f. Example of messages:
1. Text message: Hello $nameoftheuser (it is important to be able to insert the first name of the user in the message, so all message will be personalized), welcome back to our course. Today we will learn. Topic a, b and c. Please log in to the site and continue your course.
2. HTML Message: The admin will paste an html message and save the information.
g. The message will be sent aumaticatly by cron everyday at the same time, or it can be triggered by a specific script. The script will parse all the users and see each one have access to the lesson. It can have a field saved everytime this happen informing the next lesson date. So the script has only to check if next date=today if it is, send a message to the user and change the next date, if it is not, go to next user. It will send a text message to the user who choose that information or an html message if the user has chosen that.
h. At the bottom of the message it has to be a link for the user to remove themselves from the course and the mailing list. IF clicked by the user he will be send to a confirmation page where he will choose to be removed from the course, to remove from mailing from the course but still have access to the content and an option to be removed from all future mailing messages. He chooses each ones he wish and click to confirm. Can choose more than one.
7. The user have to be able to change his personal information like name, email , password etc. If email is changed a confirmation email will be sent to confirm that the new email is valid.
8. The admin can check all the user, search by name, email, lesson. Have statistics of how many users have signed for the course so far. How many are in the lessons 1, 2, 4 etc. how many users have grade between 0 – 2, 2 – 4, 4 – 6, 6 – 8, 8 – 10. Have to be able to send a broadcast message where he can write a text message and below a html message, sending text message to users who have chosen that format and html message for users how have chosen that format.
9. The admin can change the lesson the user is in, and send him to a forward lesson or previous lesson.
So far that is it, if you have a specific question about the script, please write me at: email@example.com
Getulio Junior
Let me know how many days it might take to have it done and a price of the script. How is the payment method and any other relevant information you might consider.
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The latest data shows that at the end of February 2013 there were 12,490 Irish workers in Australia on primary 457 visas in comparison to the 8,620 in 2012 which equals a rise of 45 percent within one year in the number of Irish people seeking a new life in Australia.
According to the EU statistics office, Eurostat, the number of young Irish people without jobs rose in February with 30.8 percent of the country's under-25s unemployed during that month.
These figures show how young Irish people are still trying to escape the economic crisis at home in search of a better life elsewhere. Ireland remains in third place on the overall visa leaderboard, behind India and the UK, also coming third on the 457 visa list with a total of 7,300 people receiving visas by the end of February, 8.4 percent of the total visas given.
The visas are reserved for skilled workers who must also find sponsorship but visa data has revealed that there has been a substantial drop in the number of 457 visa holders being granted permanent residency.
A report from the Australian authorities states that: "Compared with the previous month, the number of primary visas granted in February 2013 was 12.3pc lower," and "The number of subclass 457 visa holders granted a permanent residence/provisional visa was down 13pc, compared with the same period last programme year," the Herald reports.


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Tadedra wrote:Anyone have any good leveling guides.
Gwenolyn wrote:Where does Pierre's Schematic drop?
Talmar wrote:My main is also an engineer. Although I'm quite surprised that this pet is so exclusive considering they removed the exclusivity from every other profession pet out there.
Contesa wrote:who made her first 1,000g back in the day on her warlock selling thorium arrows. Which I know makes me sound really really old.
Yalina wrote:That's a good point, that none of the other pets crafted from professions require that profession anymore. Why go against that norm now, forcing the collectors to switch to engineering or level their engineer? My engineer is level 85 and probably third in the "to be leveled next" line. Her skill is high enough, but she's not going to be on the Isle of Thunder any time soon.
Ysabell wrote:My first 1000g came from selling unholy enchant. Took a long time for crusader to drop for me, but I was one of only two people on my server with that one.
For anyone wondering, the first thousand gold was noteworthy because that's how much it cost to buy a 100% speed land mount (it used to be the skill was cheap and the mounts were expensive before they changed it). It took most people weeks/months to save up that much.
Xsftifa09 wrote:Pierre isn't going to be released in the patch now.
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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team opened its 2013-14 indoor season on Saturday at the Boston University Season Opener. Junior Ronea Saunders led the Blue Devils as she earned CCSU's only first-place finish, registering a height of 1.75 meters in the high jump event.
In addition to Saunders' impressive performance, the Blue Devils tallied five other top-five performances, including two from sophomore Chelse Terry. Terry claimed second in the shot put with a distance of 11.55 meters, and fourth in the weight throw, throwing for 13.67 meters. Terry was followed in the weight throw by freshman Alleah Red in 10th (11.55m).
Senior Shelby Tuttle, CCSU record-holder in the indoor 60m hurdles (8.91), placed third in the event Saturday crossing the finish line in 8.99 seconds. She was followed by a trio of Blue Devils in seventh, eighth and ninth: freshman Melissa Wolliston (9.58), freshman Sarah Hicks (9.60) and sophomore Alyssa Gonzalez (9.70).
In the 1,000m run, junior Taylor LePage placed fourth, crossing the finish line in a career-best time of 3:11.38.
In the 5,000m run, senior Krisztina Dearborn finished fifth, clocking a time of 17:32.82.
Freshman Jazmin Booker, who competed for CCSU during the 2012 cross country season, placed seventh in the one mile run with her time of 5:29.07.
In the 500m dash, junior Janean McCalla crossed the finish line in 1:21.01, good for eighth place.
CCSU also competed in the 4x400 meter relay event. The squad comprised of Red, Gonzalez, Tuttle and sophomore Alessandra Salmon finished in sixth, registering a time of 4:03.01. Central also placed ninth in the event. The team, made up of Booker, McCalla, Wolliston and freshman Sherise Truman crossed the finish line in a time of 4:07.81.
The Blue Devils placed fifth overall with 50 team points. Northeastern claimed first with 132 points followed by Boston College (110), UMASS-Lowell (99) and Boston University (55). Bryant (28) and Marist (15) placed sixth and seventh, respectively.
Central will have almost a month to prepare for its next meet. The Blue Devils will travel to New Haven, CT for the Yale Invitational on Jan. 11.


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- Force India news
Force India still targets Sauber
- Drivers:
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Force India is still targeting catching Sauber in the constructors' championship by the end of the season.
Following Kamui Kobayashi's podium at the Japanese Grand Prix, Sauber is currently 35 points clear of Force India in sixth place in the standings and just 20 points behind fifth-placed Mercedes. While Force India has yet to be on the podium this season, Paul di Resta thinks that the team will be stronger at the remaining circuits than it was in Japan and must try to score points in every race.
"Mathematically it is realistic to take the fight to Sauber, but to get ahead of them we will need to be in the points at all the remaining races," di Resta said. "Sauber were on the podium again in Japan, which makes our task even more difficult, but we are hopeful that the tracks coming up will be more suited to us - certainly compared to Suzuka. To beat them we will need to be on top of all the issues we had in Japan."
Ignoring the constructors' standings, team principal Vijay Mallya highlighted how good Force India's form has been recently but admitted podiums would be required if it is to catch Sauber.
"I think we are having a strong end to the season already," Mallya said. "We have scored points in the last four races, including two fourth places, and we've already scored more points than we did during the whole of last year. Our car will suit some tracks more than others, but as long as we keep picking up the points we can keep the pressure on the teams around us. Korea should be good for us and hopefully Abu Dhabi and India.
"A podium has been goal since the start of the year. It's what we need if we are to get closer to sixth in the championship. We've got two very competitive drivers and they've shown already that either one of them is capable of doing it under the right conditions. With five races to go there is still plenty to play for and we won't give up until the chequered flag drops in Brazil."


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Northeast digs out as late winter storm drops more than 2 feet of snow in Vermont
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) � Much of the Northeastern United States is digging out from a late season snowstorm that killed at least four and dumped more than 2 feet of snow on parts of Vermont.
Three people were killed and a state trooper seriously injured Wednesday in a series of crashes on the Ohio Turnpike. In New Hampshire, a truck driver was killed after his rig slid on a snow-covered highway.
The heaviest snow was reported in northern Vermont. There were a series of crashes there, but no serious problems were reported.
In Maine, more than 11,000 electric customers lost power.
The snow was a boon to skiers. Shawn Mahar, of Phillips, Maine, says the snow is just what is needed for back country skiing.


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Thomas F. Shipley
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tshipley [at] temple [dot] edu
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SILC Faculty Member and member of our Spatial Network.
Biographical Sketch:
Thomas F. Shipley
(i) Professional Preparation
B.A., Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 1982
M.A., Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1983
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1988
(ii) Appointments
Associate Professor, Temple University 1999-present
Assistant Professor, Temple University 1993-1999
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Research at The University of Georgia 1992-1993
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, Athens 1991-1993
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Swarthmore College 1988-1991
(iii) Publications
(a) Related to the proposed project
Kellman, P. J. & Shipley, T. F. (1991). A theory of visual interpolation in object perception. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 141-221.
Shipley, T.F. & Kellman, P. J. (2001). Edited book: From Fragments to Objects: Segmentation and Grouping in Vision. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.
Kellman, P. J., Garrigan, P., & Shipley, T. F. (2005). Object interpolation in three dimensions. Psychological Review, 112(3), 586-609.
Bouquet, C.A., Moussa, K., Shipley, T. , Toussaint, L., & Blandin, Y. (2007) Influence of the perception of biological or non-biological motion on movement execution. Journal of Sports Sciences.
Shipley, T. F. & Zacks, J. (2008) Understanding Events: From Perception to Action. Edited book. Oxford University Press.
(b) Other significant publications
Shipley, T. F. & Kellman, P. J. (1992). Strength of visual interpolation depends on the ratio of physically-specified to total edge length. Perception & Psychophysics, 52(1), 97-106.
Shipley, T.F. (2003). The effect of object and event orientation on perception of biological motion. Psychological Science, 14(4), 377-380.
Kellman, P. J., Garrigan, P., Shipley, T. F., Yin, C., & Machado, L. (2005). 3-D interpolation in object perception: Evidence from an objective performance paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 31(3), 558-583.
Shipley, T. F. & Maguire, M. (2008) A geometrical approach to event segmentation. In Shipley, T.F. & Zacks, J. M. (Eds) Understanding Events: From Perception to Action. Oxford University Press.
Marshall, P. J., & Shipley, T. F. (2009). Event-related potentials to point-light displays of human actions in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Neuropsychology.
(iv) Synergistic Activities
- a)Development of technique of markerless motion capture for recording, editing, and displaying point-light actions for research on perception of biological motion, with Jon Blumberg
- b)Development of a corpus of point-light actions with associated free report norms, with Jon Blumberg, URL: http://astro.temple.edu/~tshipley/mocap.html
- c)Member of Leadership group of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center.
- d)Organized NSF funded Workshops of Spatial Cognition and Learning to bring US researchers together with researchers from Christian Freksa's Transregional center for research on Spatial Cognition and Action in German (the first was held in Freiburg and second in New York City)
(v) Collaborators and Other Affiliations
- a)Collaborators and co-editors
- Reinoud Bootsma, University of the Mediterranean
- Cedric Bouquet, University of Poitiers
- Laura Carlson, University of Notre Dame
- Leslie R. Cohen, Private practice in New York City
- Douglas W. Cunningham, Max-Plank Institute
- Ken Forbus Northwestern
- Dedre Gentner, Northwestern
- Roberta Golenkoff, University of Delaware
- Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago
- Louis Gomez, University of Pittsburg
- Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
- Christoph Hoelscher, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Philip J. Kellman, University of California, Los Angles
- Susan Levin, University of Chicago
- Cathy Manduca, Carlton College
- Peter Marshall, Temple University
- Nora Newcombe, Temple University
- Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- David Uttal, Northwestern
- Carol Yin, California Institute of Technology
- Jeff Zacks, Washington University
- b)Graduate advisor: Henry Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
- c)Thesis advisor and postgraduate-scholar sponsor in past five years
- Leslie R. Cohen, Private practice in Toronto (doctoral student)
- Megan Meyer, Assistant Professor Holy Family University (doctoral student)
- Andrea Frick, current, Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center Fellow (postgraduate-scholar)
- Daniele Nardi, current, Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center Fellow (postgraduate-scholar)
- Xiaoang (Irene) Wan, Department of Psychology Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (postgraduate-scholar)
Over the past 12 years, the total number of graduate students and postgraduate fellows is,
- Graduate students: 5
- Postgraduate scholars: 3


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UCLA 86, California 84
Reeves Nelson scored a career-high 24 points, tipping in the
winning basket at the buzzer, and UCLA beat California 86-84
Thursday night for its third straight win.
Lazeric Jones added a career-high 24 points, making seven of
eight free throws in the final 1:11, and Tyler Honeycutt had 15 for
the Bruins (12-6, 4-2 Pac-10), who hit a season-high tying 10
3-pointers, four by Honeycutt.
Cal's Allen Crabbe hit a 3-pointer that tied the game at 84 with
10 seconds to go. Honeycutt dribbled up the court, scrambled to the
right side of the free-throw line and put up a short jumper that
Nelson made a beeline for the offensive rebound and got his
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Rams finish second in tri-match
ST. MARYS – The Elk County Catholic Crusader golf squad picked up a pair of wins on Wednesday afternoon as they defeated the Johnsonburg Rams and the Kane Wolves in a tri-match held at the St. Marys Golf Club. Elk Catholic won the match with a score of 211. Johnsonburg had a score of 219, while Kane had a score of 260. The match featured eight golfers from Elk Catholic, five from Johnsonburg and six from Kane; however, only the top five scores from each team counted for the match. Johnsonburg's Cameron Grumley was the overall medalist for the day with a two-over-par round of 37. Elk Catholic was led by Brandon Schlimm with a 39, while Kane's squad was led by Ryan Greto with a 47. Elk Catholic's Jess Jaynes finished the day with a 42, followed by teammates Mitchell Struble and Bruno Cavalline with 43s and Elliott Struble with a 44. Other Crusader scores were Drew Meyer and Kristy Hanes with 46s and Ben Reuscher with a 53. Mitchell Struble also recorded a hole-in-one on the par-three No. 4 hole, using a seven iron to drive the ball 159 yards. Following Grumley for the Johnsonburg Rams were Calvin Christoff with a 38, Nathan Burgeson and Luke Shreffler with 47s and J.P. Allegretto with a 50. Following Greto for the Kane Wolves were John Bedford with a 48, Koden Thompson with a 53, Dan Park with a 55 and Austin Woolcock with a 57. The other Kane score was a 58 by Trace Gordon. The Crusaders will return to action this afternoon when they face off against St. Marys Area at the Bavarian Hills Golf Course in a match slated for 3:30 p.m.Johnsonburg is slated to host Ridgway at Kane Country Club today at 3:30 p.m.


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I have six pregnant women on my team at work (something is definitely in the water!) and there is a lot of water cooler talk about maternity leave. I thought I would consult some smart, experienced moms on this topic What do you know now about maternity leave that you wish you had known before you gave birth? What's the one piece of advice you'd give to a mom-to-be who is preparing to go on maternity leave (and return to work)? Thanks for sharing your wisdom!
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Know your rights with state and federal law. Find out creative ways you can maximize your leave time with your baby. CA has so many programs for mothers that allows for extended leaves. (I'm a HR consultant in CA). I wish I would have stayed out longer than 5 months with my baby. I had enough time under a CA state program to protect my job for another month. I'm interested in seeing other comments.
Thread is kind of dated, but here are a couple things that may help a future reader: in the Federal government, you can mix paid leave and leave without pay (LWOP) so that you can continue to accrue leave while out. Also, many employees transition back by teleworking part-time for several weeks before returning to work full-time. Talk to HR before talking to your supervisor. Many supervisors don't know the flexibilities or won't talk about them unless asked.
I work in HR for a Federal agency and I'll be able to answer more specific questions. :)


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saakshyam telugu movie story saakshyam telugu movie release date. The film is based on five different elements and director Sriwass is coming up with a whole new concept. Hero Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas and Pooja Hegde-starrer Saakshyam will release on July 20. The film was supposed to hit the screens on June 14, but a delay in CG work led to the postponement. saakshyam telugu movie video songs Baahubali vfx team, Makuta is working on the CG of Saakshyam and the producers are not compromising on the quality. The film is based on five different elements and director Sriwass is comingRead More


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State moves to cap long-term care insurance premium rate
reforms will protect seniors from skyrocketing annual rates
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CHICAGO -- Illinois Department
of Insurance Director Andrew Boron announced on Wednesday an effort
by the department to protect long-term care policyholders. The
Department of Insurance, with help from state Rep. Robyn Gabel, 18th
District, Evanston, has proposed
House Bill 2333, which calls for a 15 percent annual cap on the
premium rate for a policyholder's long-term care insurance.
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Social Security: Electronic payments become mandatory March 1
Judith Bartels, Social Security district manager in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD -- Beginning March
1, with few exceptions, all federal benefits, including Social
Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits, are to be paid
electronically. That's according to a rule from the U.S. Department
of the Treasury.
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Seniors warned about a scam to get cash
Dept. on
Aging offers clues that someone may be victim of financial
SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois
Department on Aging Director John K. Holton, Ph.D., is warning
seniors about an attempt to scam seniors and steal their money. The
department is acting to alert Illinois seniors, based on a report by
Springfield police that two elderly females fell victim to the scam.
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Start the new year right with 'This Golden Age' at
the Atlanta
Community House
ATLANTA -- Let's get moving! The
Atlanta Public Library's popular "This Golden Age" series for folks
over 50 continues on Tuesday with a visit from Illinois Wesleyan
choreographer Jean Kerr. This event is the perfect antidote for the
post-holiday blahs and a great way to start the new year right --
for both mind and body.
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Social Security announces new online services available with a 'my
Social Security' account
SPRINGFIELD -- Michael J. Astrue,
commissioner of Social Security, announced Monday that the agency is
expanding the services available with a "my Social Security"
account, a personalized online account that people can use beginning
in their working years and continuing throughout the time they
receive Social Security benefits. More than 60 million Social
Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients
can now access their benefit verification letter, payment history
and earnings record instantly using their online account. Social
Security beneficiaries also can change their address and start or
change direct deposit information online.
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Financial wellness can be yours in 2013
By Judith
Bartels, Social Security district manager in
SPRINGFIELD -- January is Financial
Wellness Month -- a great time to think about your own financial
future. It also happens to be at this time that many people make
resolutions for the New Year. Why not combine the two and make your
own financial wellness a resolution for 2013?
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3 dangerous driving distractions that may surprise you
(BPT) -- By now, almost everyone
knows the dangers of texting or talking on a cellphone while
driving. But phones aren't the only distractions drivers should be
aware of. Experts say that anything that draws your attention away
from the road can be a potential cause of an accident. That includes
actions and situations as innocuous as snacking behind the wheel or
postponing a bathroom break.
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A 'raise' for people who get Social Security
SPRINGFIELD -- As we ring in a new
year, we can expect to see a number of changes. Social Security is
no exception. In 2013, people who receive Social Security or
Supplemental Security Income payments will see their benefits
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Attention caregivers: Federal benefit checks are going
(BPT) -- More than 65 million
people provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or elderly
family member or friend, according to the National Alliance for
Caregiving. In addition to providing emotional and physical support,
caregivers are often entrusted to help their loved ones carry out
financial decisions.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A former Oklahoma State basketball player accused of sexually assaulting two women at an off-campus party in 2010 will not be retried after an appeals court tossed out his conviction, prosecutors said Monday.
A jury found Darrell Williams guilty of two counts of rape by instrumentation and one count of sexual battery in July 2012, but the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals threw out the verdict earlier this year. The court said testimony of jurors at a special hearing last year suggested that at least two made unauthorized visits to the crime scene, and that those visits were discussed during deliberations.
The two women want to move on with their lives after college and don't want to testify again, Payne County District Attorney Tom Lee said Monday.
Williams' conviction did not include any jail time, but he was required to register as a sex offender.
Williams' trial attorney, Cheryl Ramsey, said she was not surprised prosecutors decided not to retry the case.
''I thought that would be their conclusion because of the eye-witness issue was not good and because the mental health issues that were not provided to us at discovery,'' she said.
Two women testified at trial that Williams groped them against their will at the party. One said Williams held her against her will and dragged her in a yard. She said the attack happened in the basement of the house and that no one came to her aid.
There was no physical evidence in the case, and Williams' attorneys noted that no one heard anyone scream, saw any struggles or reported anything inappropriate.
The women testified that they identified Williams after police showed them a photo of the team. His attorneys argued that he was misidentified by the women as their attacker, calling witnesses who testified that several players at the party wore similar Oklahoma State warm-up suits.
Williams is black, while the women are white. Williams' family contended he was a victim of racial profiling by a mostly white jury picked from a largely white jury pool. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was among the attendees at a 2012 rally on Williams' behalf in Stillwater, home to the university and about 70 miles north of Oklahoma City.
One of the women told The Associated Press in August 2012 that it was ignorant for people to think the issue was about race.
''It's not about race; it's about rape. He raped two girls,'' she said.
Williams was suspended from the team in February 2011 and later returned to his hometown of Chicago. While on the team he averaged 7.1 points per game and 7.3 rebounds.
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"A Treasure for Our Country"
On December 11, 2000, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments inGeorge W. Bush, et al. v. Albert Gore Jr., et al., the partisan battle royale that would end the stalemate over the Florida recount and send one of the litigants to the White House. The deadlocked election had exposed a divided nation, and pundits were describing Governor Bush's "Red America" and Vice President Gore's "Blue America" as if they were separate countries at war. After five weeks of ferocious wrangling over "pregnant chads" and "hanging chads," hard-liners in both camps were warning of an illegitimate presidency, a constitutional crisis, a bloodless coup.
Inside the Court's marble-and-mahogany chambers, Senator Robert Smith of New Hampshire watched the legal jousting with genuine awe. Smith was one of the hardest of Red America's hardliners, a passionate antiabortion, antigay, antitax Republican, and he believed he was watching a struggle for the soul of his country. Smith was also a former small-town civics teacher, less jaded than most of his colleagues in Congress, andBush v. Gorewas a civics lesson for the ages, a courtroom drama that would decide the leader of the free world. "It doesn't get any bigger than this," he thought.
But less than an hour into the proceedings, Smith suddenly walked out on history, squeezing his six-foot-five, 280-pound frame past his perplexed seatmates. "Excuse me," he whispered. "Excuse me." A bear of a man with fleshy jowls, a bulbous nose, and a sloppy comb-over, Smith could feel the stares as he lumbered down the center aisle, then jostled through the hushed standing-room crowd to the exit. "Excuse me. Excuse me."
Smith's abrupt departure looked like one of his unorthodox protests, like the time he brandished a plastic fetus on the Senate floor, or the time he announced he was resigning from the Republican Party because it was cutting too many big-government deals with the Democrats. Smith was an unabashed ideologue, rated the most conservative and the most frugal senator by various right-wing interest groups. He had voted against food stamps and Head Start, clamored for President Bill Clinton's impeachment, and even mounted his own quixotic campaign for president on a traditional-values platform.
But this was no protest. Smith was rushing to the White House, to celebrate a big-government deal with the Democrats.
At the height of the partisan war over the Florida recount, President Clinton was signing a bipartisan bill to revive the Florida Everglades, a $7.8 billion rescue mission for sixty-nine endangered species and twenty national parks and refuges. It was the largest environmental restoration project in the history of the planet, and Smith had pushed it through Congress with classic liberal rhetoric, dismissing its price tag as "just a can of Coke per citizen per day," beseeching his colleagues to "save this treasure as our legacy to our children and grandchildren." So after his dash from the Court, he headed straight to the Cabinet Room, where he exchanged congratulations with some of the Democratic Party's top environmentalists, like Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, the former head of the League of Conservation Voters, and White House aide George Frampton, the former head of the Wilderness Society. And Smith was not even the most surprising guest in the West Wing that day.
That was Florida's Republican governor, another key supporter of the Everglades plan, a former Miami developer named Jeb Bush. As the world waited to hear whether his brother would win his state and succeed their father's successor in the White House, Jeb was already there, staring out at the Rose Garden with the air of a quarterback who had stumbled into the opposing locker room near the end of the Super Bowl. "The last time I was here, your father was president!" one lobbyist told him. Jeb tried to smile, but it came out more like a grimace. One Clinton appointee began babbling about the Cuban Missile Crisis -- possibly the last time that room had felt that tense. Jeb even said hi to a Miami congresswoman who had publicly accused him of suppressing black votes. "This," thought Jeb's top environmental aide, "is as surreal as politics can get."
Unless, that is . . . but no, Vice President Gore, a key architect of the Everglades plan, stayed home to listen to the Supreme Court audiotape. "I was really proud of what we accomplished in the Everglades," Gore later recalled. "But I was in a pretty pitched battle that day."
At 1:12P.M., an ebullient President Clinton invited everyone into the Oval Office, the room that George W. Bush liked to say needed a good scrubbing. If the president was upset about Gore's plight, or Jeb's presence, or the legacy of impeachment, or his imminent move to the New York suburbs, the legendary compartmentalizer hid it well. "This is a great day!" he said. "We should all be very proud." He used eighteen ceremonial pens to sign the bill, graciously handing the first souvenir to Jeb. Senator Smith quipped that it was lucky Clinton's name wasn't Cornelius Snicklefritzer, or else the ceremony might never end. The president threw his head back and laughed. "Wow," thought his chief of staff, John Podesta, "this is like a Fellini movie."
If Florida's political swamp was tearing Americans apart, Florida's actual swamp had a knack for bringing people together. The same Congress that had been torn in half by Clinton's impeachment had overwhelmingly approved his plan for the Everglades, after lobbyists for the sugar industry and the Audubon Society walked the corridors of Capitol Hill arm-in-arm. The same Florida legislature that was in turmoil overBush v. Gorehad approved Everglades restoration without a single dissenting vote.
At a press conference after the ceremony, Jeb sidestepped the inevitableBush v. Gorequestions to highlight this unity: "In a time when people are focused on politics, and there's a little acrimony -- I don't know if y'all have noticed -- this is a good example of how, in spite of all that, bipartisanship is still alive." Reporters shouted follow-ups about the Court, but the governor cut them off with a smile. "No, no, no, no, you're going the wrong way on that one. We're here to talk about something that's going to be long-lasting, way past counting votes. This is the restoration of a treasure for our country."
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Today, everyone agrees that the Everglades is a national treasure. It's a World Heritage Site, an International Biosphere Reserve, the most famous wetland on earth. It's a cultural icon, featured in Carl Hiaasen novels, Spiderman comics, country songs, and the opening credits ofCSI: Miami, as well as the popular postcards of its shovel-faced alligators and spindly-legged wading birds. It's the ecological equivalent of motherhood and apple pie; when an aide on NBC'sThe West Wingwas asked the most popular thing the president could do for the environment, he immediately replied: "Save the Everglades."
But there was once just as broad a national consensus that the Everglades was a worthless morass, an enemy of civilization, an obstacle to progress. The first government report on the Everglades deemed it "suitable only for the haunt of noxious vermin, or the resort of pestilential reptiles." Its explorers almost uniformly described it as a muddy, mushy, inhospitable expanse of razor-edged sawgrass in shallow water -- too wet to farm, too dry to sail, too unpredictable to settle. Americans believed it was their destiny to drain this "God-forsaken" swamp, to "reclaim" it from mosquitoes and rattlesnakes, to "improve" it into a subtropical paradise of bountiful crops and booming communities. Wetlands were considered wastelands, and "draining the swamp" was a metaphor for solving festering problems.
The heart of the Everglades was technically a marsh, not a swamp, because its primary vegetation was grassy, not woody; the first journalist to slog through the Everglades called it a "vast and useless marsh." But it was usually described as a dismal, impenetrable swamp, and even conservationists dreamed of draining it; converting wet land into productive land was considered the essence of conservation. Hadn't God specifically instructed man to subdue the earth, and take dominion over all the living creatures that moveth upon it? Wasn't America destined to overpower its wilderness?
This is the story of the Everglades, from useless bog to national treasure, from its creation to its destruction to its potential resurrection. It is the story of a remarkable swath of real estate and the remarkable people it has attracted, from the aboriginals who created the continent's first permanent settlement in the Everglades, to the U.S. soldiers who fought a futile war of ethnic cleansing in the Everglades, to the dreamers and schemers who have tried to settle, drain, tame, develop, sell, preserve, and restore the Everglades. It's a story about the pursuit of paradise and the ideal of progress, which once inspired the degradation of nature, and now inspires its restoration. It's a story about hubris and unintended consequences, about the mistakes man has made in his relationship with nature and his unprecedented efforts to fix them.
The story begins with the natural Everglades ecosystem, which covered most of south Florida, from present-day Orlando all the way down to the Florida Keys. For most of its history, it was virtually uninhabited. As late as 1897, four years after the historian Frederick Jackson Turner declared the western frontier closed, an explorer marveled that the Everglades was still "as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa."
But once white men got to know it, they began to transform it. A Gilded Age industrialist named Hamilton Disston was the first visionary to try to drain the swamp. A brilliant oilman-turned-developer named Henry Flagler considered his own assault on the Everglades while he was laying the foundation for modern south Florida. And an energetic Progressive Era governor named Napoleon Bonaparte Broward vowed to create an Empire of the Everglades with more canals, declaring war on south Florida's water.
The Everglades turned out to be a resilient enemy, resisting man's drainage schemes for decades, taking revenge in the form of brutal droughts and catastrophic floods, converting Florida swampland into an enduring real estate punchline. In 1928, a hurricane blasted Lake Okeechobee through its flimsy muck dike and drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades, a ghastly foreshadowing of Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans. Mother Nature did not take kindly to man's attempts to subjugate her.
But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the ground troops in America's war against nature, finally conquered the Everglades with one of the most elaborate water-control projects in history, setting the stage for south Florida's spectacular postwar development. Suburbs such as Weston, Wellington, Plantation, Pembroke Pines, Miami Lakes, and Miami Springs all sprouted in drained Everglades wetlands. So did Miami International Airport, Sawgrass Mills Mall, Florida International University, Burger King corporate headquarters, and a vast agricultural empire that produces one out of every five teaspoons of American sugar. Disney World was built near the headwaters of the Everglades. And some people began to wonder whether the creation of a man-made paradise across Florida's southern thumb was worth the destruction of a natural one.
So the story of the Everglades is also the story of the transformation of south Florida, from a virtually uninhabited wasteland to a densely populated Fantasyland with 7 million residents, 40 million annual tourists, and the world's largest concentration of golf courses. "There has never been a more grossly exaggerated region, a more grossly misrepresented region, or one concerning which less has been known than this mighty empire of South Florida," thePalm Beach Postsaid in 1924. That's still about right.
America's war on nature has left a tattered battlefield in south Florida. Half the Everglades is gone. The other half is an ecological mess. Wading birds no longer darken the skies above it. Algal blooms are exploding in its lakes and estuaries, massacring its dolphins, oysters, and manatees. And it is now clear that the degradation extends beyond noxious vermin and pestilential reptiles, affecting the people of south Florida as well. The aquifers that store their drinking water are under siege. Their paradise has been sullied by sprawl, and by overcrowded schools, hospitals, and highways. Most of them are at risk from the next killer hurricane -- and the one after that. It is now almost universally agreed that south Florida's growth is no longer sustainable.
The Everglades restoration plan that President Clinton signed with Governor Bush at his side is supposed to restore some semblance of the original ecosystem, and guide south Florida toward sustainability. And the Army Corps of Engineers, after decades of helping to destroy the Everglades, will lead the effort to undo some of the damage. "The Everglades is a test," one environmentalist has written. "If we pass, we may get to keep the planet."
On that December day at the millennium's end, Republicans and Democrats described Everglades restoration as the dawn of a new era in conservation -- not only for south Florida, but for mankind. Instead of taming rivers, irrigating deserts, and draining swamps, man would restore ravaged ecosystems. Instead of fighting over scarce fresh water -- the oil of the twenty-first century -- Floridians would demonstrate how to share. The Everglades, Jeb Bush said, would be "a model for the world," proof that man and nature could live in harmony. America's politicians would finally pass the Everglades test.
It was a noble sentiment. But man had been flunking that test for a long time.Copyright ©2006 by Michael Grunwald
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Bank tweeters arrested
By Peter Krupa | Published: July 9, 2010
In an interesting development in Venezuela, the CICPC (equivalent, I think, to the FBI) has made its first arrest of Twitter users: Two people who accutanedelyveri. the agency says tweeted rumors with the intent to destabilize the banking sector by causing a run on banks. According to a press release, CICPC director Wilmer Flores said: [...]
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Another Google product still in beta
By Peter Krupa | Published: April 20, 2010
Google appears to be rather proud of its new-found freedom of expression spine. It just released a snazzy new product mapping out the countries in the world whose governments have requested information be removed from one of the company's products (Blogger, YouTube, etc.). Unfortunately, in order for numbers to farmacia canadiense. be useful, you need [...]
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By Peter Krupa | Published: April 18, 2010
In addition to being placed on the IACHR's blacklist of the region's worst human rights violators (a nice ideologically-diverse group that also includes Venezuela, Honduras, Haiti, and Cuba), Colombia is a place where "you can barely say that there is freedom of expression," according to the IACHR's free speech rapporteur, Catalina Botero: It is difficult [...]
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A few months out from legislative elections, the ChA?vez administration today intensified its crackdown on opposition media by arresting Guillermo Zuloaga, the owner of Venezuela's only remaining opposition television station, GlobovisiA?n. He was arrested by military amoxicillin dosage. intelligence police. Supposedly he is being investigated for criticizing the ChA?vez administration's record of attacks on freedom [...]
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It started with a rumor posted on popular anti-ChA?vez site NoticieroDigital.com that several government ministers had been murdered. Now there is talk in Venezuela of "regulating the internet," whatever that might mean. I'll believe it when I see it (and when I do see it, I'm going into the web proxy business). Frankly, the rumors [...]
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Venezuela just became the proud owner of a Nicaraguan television channel, Telenica (Canal 8). The Venezuelans themselves confirmed to El Nuevo Diario that the money for the purchase of the channel came from ALBA de Nicaragua S.A., a corporation founded to manage incoming Venezuelan petrodollar handouts that is, in point of fact, 51% owned by Venezuela's state-owned oil company, PetrA?leos de Venezuela (PdVSA).
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Venezuela: Still on the brink
By Peter Krupa | Published: January 27, 2010
The world is condemning Venezuela for shutting down more media outlets. But international finger-wagging and domestic rioting have happened before, with no effect.
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An IFOP Survey (fr) published in 2010 reveals that in France, 30% of young people aged 15 to 24 do volunteer work. This is a good average when compared to the rest of Europe. But why be satisfied with 30% when all young French people have the wherewithal to contribute to the cause of their choice? What good is it for youth to be full of energy and bursting with ideas if others cannot benefit from it?
Heloise, Radia, Lea, and Julliette are students at Sciences Po Paris who looked for ways to encourage young people to get involved. How could they help others understand that everyone has an important part to play? That even if they are young, even if they do not yet have the right to vote, they still can make a difference?
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Nashville, Tenn. --- Tennessee State University head softball coach Jeff Dabney has announced the signing of Lindsey Burgess to a National Letter of Intent.
Burgess, a native of Palmdale, Calif., attended Desert High School where she competed under head coach Pam Camble for four years. She also played for Coach Sarah Adams' California Stealth during the summer and is a former teammate of current Tiger sophomore Savannah Gutierrez.
"Lindsey is the final piece of a very athletic class for us," Dabney said. "It was important for our program that we continue to add versatile and athletic kids that can help us at any position. Lindsey fits that mold perfectly! In high school she pitched and was a catcher. For her summer team she caught, played shortstop, third base and first base. With her ability to play multiple positions, I anticipate her pushing for a starting spot immediately."
During her high school career, Burgess was a three-time All-League First-Team selection while garnering First-Team All-Valley honors twice.
Some of her 2012 accomplishments with the California Stealth include: TCS Colorado Sparkler, Long's Peak Champions; So Cal Premiere Qualifier, Huntington Beach, CA; TCS qualified World Series.
Additionally, Burgess also participated on the Desert High basketball team. For her efforts on the court, she made the All-League First Team two consecutive years.
"Lindsey's size, athleticism, and power potential will add a new wrinkle to our team," Dabney continued. "I am really looking forward to seeing how she develops over the next four years here at TSU."
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Scottish rookie primed for Boks
Adam Ashe will become the seventh new cap of Scotland's mid-year tour when he takes to the field against South Africa in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
Ashe, the 20-year-old Glasgow Warriors No.8 and a product of the Hillfoots and Stirling County clubs, was preparing for club training at Lincoln University in Christchurch one week ago – having been domiciled for a couple of months in New Zealand's South Island as recipient of the John Macphail Scholarship.
Others have graduated to full international honours and have cited the "invaluable" experience the scholarship has bequeathed them.
These include John Barclay, Grant Gilchrist, Jonny Gray and Kevin Bryce.
But none has won promotion so rapidly as Ashe, one of four changes from the starting line-up following the victory against Argentina in Cordoba last Friday – which preserved the tour's 100 percent record (after wins against the USA and Canada) and the ongoing successful beginning to Vern Cotter's tenure as Scotland head coach.
The other changes see Henry Pyrgos start instead of Grayson Hart at scrumhalf; Tim Swinson preferred to his fellow Glasgow Warrior, Jonny Gray, at lock and Chris Fusaro promoted from the bench instead of Blair Cowan who has returned home.
Pyrgos, among the try scorers in Cordoba last week, scored his first international try against South Africa two years ago.
Cotter has done his due diligence on Ashe and has seen enough in training here this week to mean that he will be Scotland's 1060th cap this weekend.
"He is a talented player and the reports of his form in New Zealand have been very positive," Cotter said.
"He's trained well with us and looked sharp. He is a specialist No.8 and this is a golden opportunity for him."
Ashe, who has played for Scotland at every age-grade level and was part of the Scotland Sevens squad at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth in 2011, is excited by his debut.
"South Africa will be a massive physical challenge but you have to relish a chance like this," he said.
Local Eastern Province officials say a crowd in excess of 35,000 – more than watched South Africa's two recent Tests against Wales – will be present on Saturday.
As far as the other changes are concerned, Cotter stressed that both Gray and Hart had done well in Cordoba, but for this particular game he wished to start with Swinson and Pyrgos.
On the bench, only Dougie Fife remains from last week with the prospect of Tyrone Holmes, the 28-year-old Glasgow Warriors back row forward, becoming Scotland's eighth debutant of the tour, while at the other end of the experience scale, British Lions prop Euan Murray would be winning his 60th cap, should he be introduced.
Cotter added: "I've always regarded playing South Africa in South Africa as the benchmark. It's a massive challenge and it gives our boys an opportunity to lift their level.
"If we can make accurate choices in the way we play and impose our form of rugby then I think that will be a shift in the right direction.
"I've been pleased with the initiative that's developing within the team. We're starting to get good variety in our game. Now it's a matter of seeing if we can do it against very good opposition."
Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Peter Horne, 11 Tommy Seymour, 10 Duncan Weir, 9 Henry Pyrgos, 8 Adam Ashe, 7 Chris Fusaro, 6 Robert Harley, 5 Grant Gilchrist (captain), 4 Tim Swinson, 3 Geoff Cross, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Alasdair Dickinson.
Replacements: 16 Kevin Bryce, 17 Moray Low, 18 Euan Murray, 19 Jonny Gray, 20 Tyrone Holmes, 21 Grayson Hart, 22 Dougie Fife, 23 Peter Murchie.
Date: Saturday, June 28
Venue: Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth
Kick-off: 17.00 (15.00 GMT; 16.00 BST)
Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Romain Poite (France), Marius Mitrea (Italy)
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Since life started by micro organisms. but i am very skeptical where did the first micro organism come from?
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It's a game of odds, really, when it boils down to it.
You have so many chemical arrangements that can occur naturally, some of them are self replicating. Given enough time (or if you prefer, enough chances) anything even remotely possible, however improbable, will occur with certainty.
The "prime replicator" would be by no means worthy of survival in today's time. In fact, it would likely be so incredibly mundane, it likely wouldn't even get noticed if it were sitting right under our noses... it's far too simplistic.
What I'm trying to get at is the mind bogglingly simple nature of the prime replicator. It barely even classifies as a life form... most would argue it isn't life yet.
Eventually (and I'm talking hundreds of thousands to billions of copies) with enough copy "mistakes" (and most of those mistakes ceasing to exist because of obvious failure to replicate themselves or exist in the environment) a very tiny fraction of the mutations begin showing more complexity.
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I believe we've located two other prime replicating branches of life thus far here on this tiny planet... though, they didn't amount to much. But, we know that the "genesis" point is certainly not a unique event. It occurs naturally... and as far as we can tell, usually doesn't make it very far in its incredibly simple and fragile state.
It's good to be sceptical... though... reality tends to assert itself, regardless of how puzzled we are by it.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second day in a row, the MIT men's tennis team took to the confines of the Carr Tennis Bubble and came away with a win, defeating visiting Bentley University, 7-2, on Friday afternoon. With the win, the Engineers, who are ranked 25th nationally, improve to 3-2. The loss was Bentley's first of the 2011-12 campaign, as the Falcons drop to 6-1.
Tech started off by sweeping all three doubles matches. Senior Elia Harmatz (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.) teamed up with senior Robert Wheeler (Denton, Texas) for an 8-1 win in the No. 3 doubles position. Junior Matthew Skalak (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and sophomore Edwin Zhang (Falls Church, Va.) picked up a hard-fought, 8-4, victory in the second spot.
The Cardinal and Gray continued its strong play in the singles matches, with Zhang, Hamatz and Skalak, earning convincing straight-set wins at Nos. 1, 3, and 5, respectively. Zhang won by a score of 6-1, 6-2, while Skalak surrendered just a pair of games, winning 6-1, 6-1.
Junior Brian Oldfield (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) bounced back from an opening set loss to defeat Rodrigo Ribeiro, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, at No. 2.
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Nobody likes a cheat. Whether the cheater is fraudulently collecting disability insurance that is not his or her due, or the cheater who fakes an injury so that she can get undeserved light duty. But I have noticed an alarming and disappointing tendency among organizations who brag about their case management as if, cheating injured workers out of their legal claims of disability pay.
Before any of you furrow your brows and type of an indignant "how dare you…" email, I am not talking about those among us who act in good faith and try to weed out the dishonest who steal from the company by claiming injuries that don't exist, or that exist but were caused outside the workplace. But on the other hand, if this hits close to home, maybe you ought examine your conscious and if it sounds like I'm talking to you I probably am, and if I am, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Let's begin by level setting. No one wants to get hurt, and while there are some people with larcenous hearts, most people (and I use the word "most" judiciously and correctly—to denote the majority of people, as in more than half.) don't want to take money fraudulently.
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I further believe that most injury claims are legitimate; people get hurt, report, the injury and hope to get back to work as soon as possible. I believe that most fraudulent claims are at least on some level legitimate; people get hurt but they either exaggerate the extent of the injury or deliberately milk the time off work so they can malinger while living on the dole. But there's a lot of grey area between the legitimately injured and the fraudulently injured, and too often organizations treat all injured workers as if they are liars and thieves.
Misguided Case Management Workers
There are some case management professionals who view the core purpose of their jobs as denying benefits. Most are decent, ethical people, but they may still be under the mistaken impression that denying disability benefits on a technicality is the right thing to do. This may not be their fault. A friend of mine has been a policeman for over twenty years. He told me that if he had it to do over again he would have chosen another career. Not because he doesn't have the same values that led him to chose that path in the first place, but because, as he explained , a policeman tends to see people when they are at their worst (watch an episode of Cops and you will understand what he's talking about). So I guess I shouldn't blame a veteran case management professional who starts to view injured worker with something of a jaded eye, but this assumption that workers are guilty until proven innocent hinders our ability to create a culture where workers value safety.
While some people do fraudulently make claims (after all, if they didn't, it's likely that claims management wouldn't exist, or at least it wouldn't exist to the extent that it currently does) it's the grey areas that case management can get dicey and where otherwise compassionate and ethical case managers are tempted to go off the rails, morally speaking.
Take for example, the case of worker who strains his back on a Friday but doesn't report the injury and then helps his brother-in-law roof his house. In the middle of roofing job, he realizes that he has been injured more seriously than he initially believed. He reports the injury on Monday. In this case, the claims management team is likely to dispute the claim (because a weekend has passed between the alleged injury and the claim.) If the worker is honest and admits that he had been engaged in manual labor on the weekend the claim is likely to be denied, even though it is completely legitimate. In this case the case management professional has to little choice but to dispute the claim. The tragedy here is that the fraudulent claimant is far more likely to seek the services of a skivvy lawyer that specializes in fraudulent medical cases while the legitimately injured worker is punished for telling the truth.
What's more, this is a situation that most organizations have created. They offer incentives for not reporting injuries—safety BINGOs, bonuses for no injuries, and similar programs make it uncomfortable to report an injury, even one that the injured party knows is a legitimate workplace injury. The dirty little secret of too many behavior based safety programs is that they encourage injured workers to seek outside medical attention and keep the injuries off the books. While this is a great way to make the company's safety record look good, it's basically just juking the stats.
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I am sure to get a view angry emails that defend Case Management abuses (and they are abuses even if they are the by-product of unintended and subconscious biases) as attacking case management professionals for "only doing their jobs". I reject this criticism out of hand. No one can every justify doing the wrong thing by claiming that he or she is only doing his or her job. It didn't work for the Nazis and Nuremburg and it doesn't work for case management workers. The key to ethical case management is in training and in expectations. Those who provide medical attention to workers need to understand that the difference between a recordable injury and one that is not is often as simple as the kind of pain reliever administered to the worker. This is not to say that a physician should be discouraged from doing what's best for the patient, but all things being equal why not avoid a recordable?
Workers should be trained on the importance of timely and accurate reporting of injuries and more attention should be focused on eliminating injuries, identifying and reporting hazards and near misses, and drawn away from denying claims.
Further, claims managers should be taught that their jobs aren't about catching cheaters, rather, it is to protect the workers from being wrongly denied benefits at the hands of corporate jackals, and protect the company from people who would rather sit home watching Judge Judy and fraudulently collect disability funds. It's a undeniably a tough job, but one they chose, after all, it's not like they were pressed into service after getting falling down drunk in a waterfront pub.