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Oracle® Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide > Enabling Secure Communication in Oracle Business Intelligence >
The components of Oracle BI are configured to communicate over SSL by setting SSL-related parameters.
Table 10 provides a description of the parameters and example values used when configuring the BI components for SSL.
Certificate File
The certificate file. For components acting as SSL servers such as BI Server and BI Scheduler, this is the Server Certificate filename. For example, server-cert.pem. For client components, such as BI ODBC Client Data Source, this is the Client Certificate filename. For example, client-cert.pem.
Private Key File
The private key file. For server components, this is Server Private Key filename. For example, server-key.pem. For client components, this is the Client Private Key filename. For example, client-key.pem.
Passphrase File or Passphrase Program
Used to obtain the passphrase needed to decrypt the private key. Specify either a file containing the passphrase or a program that outputs the passphrase.
CA Certificate File or CA Certificate Directory
These two parameters reference the CA certificate file. The CA is used to verify the server or client certificate when Verify Peer is set to true. Set either the CA Certificate File or CA Certificate Directory parameter. The CA Certificate File parameter specifies the name and path of the trusted CA Certificate. The CA Certificate Directory contains hash versions of trusted CAs.
Verify Peer
When set to true, the BI component verifies that the other component to the connection has a valid certificate (that is, mutual authentication). A value of false permits a connection to any peer.
Certificate Verification Depth
The depth of certificate chain. A depth of one means a certificate has to be signed by one of the trusted CAs. A depth of two means the certificate was signed by a CA that was further verified by one of the CAs.
Trusted Peer Distinguished Names
Used to specify individual named clients (by Distinguished Name) that are allowed to connect. DN identifies the entity that holds the private key that matches the public key of the certificate.
Cipher Status
A list of cipher suites that should be permitted. See OpenSSL documentation. For example, SSL_CIPHER_LIST="EXP-DES-56-SHA";
Two configuration scenarios are defined:
For server components such as Oracle BI Server or Oracle BI Cluster Controller, the minimum security scenario satisfies the following conditions:
For Client components such as BI ODBC Client, minimum security scenario is when the parameter to enable SSL is set to true.
For Server components, near-maximum security scenario satisfies the following conditions, in addition to the settings in minimum security scenario:
For Client components, near-maximum security scenario conditions are the following:
NOTE: It is highly recommended that you first configure your Oracle BI deployment for functionality and ensure that all Oracle BI components are operational and functional, including BI Publisher if you are using the Oracle BI Reporting and Publishing feature, before you enable communication of BI components to occur over SSL. Determine whether you wish to implement the minimum or maximum security scenario.
The configuration tasks are for configuring a single instance of each BI component. If you have multiple instances of a BI component in your deployment, perform the configuration for all instances of each component. Alternately, you may configure one instance of a BI component and copy the configuration files and certificates, keys, and stores as appropriate to other instances, and perform machine-specific changes to the configuration file if needed.
NOTE: Before performing the configuration, stop all BI services and processes. Restart services and processes after configuration is complete for the changes to take effect.


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I am leasing Infiniti G37X. A private shop did oil change and failed to tighten the drainage nut, and oil leaked to empty. My wife drove the car, red light come on and she continued to drive (not aware that she had to stop) to get home; about two miles. Brought the car to the dealer repair shop and they say the engine is damaged needs to be replaced ($13000 + tax). Is this really the only option. Is this a realistic price?
The engine runs smooth at idle, but would not go above 2000 rpm.
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So Who Is Christmas Tree Ideas?
We've loved Christmas time for as long as we can remember as soon as the Christmas lights go up in the shopping malls and the window displays start to include tinsel, trees etc and the radio plays Christmas music we go to our happy place!
Decorating the Christmas tree is something we love to do each year, adding special ornaments and reminiscing about Christmases past as we sip hot chocolate and listen to some of our favorite Christmas tunes at the same time.
Setting up a website for Christmas tree decorations was a no brainer, it's fun and we love it, however we are also running the site in order to be able to pay for our own holiday season (and the rest of the year too!) in other words for us it's a job, even though it's also fun! This leads me to let you know about the legal stuff – our affiliate disclosure in other words.
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If you plan to offer streaming video on your website, you have a big decision to make. With your own dedicated server, you have the capability of streaming the video directly from your server using streaming software. There are many streaming options. Some of them are quite costly, while others are free and open source.
Instead of streaming from your own server, you also have the option of using cloud-based services, either through software wholly controlled and managed by a third-party company or a cloud platform that allows you to install your own software. Like local streaming software, there are both free and paid cloud solutions for video streaming.
The advantages of streaming from your own server are that you can control the quality, file types, content, and software features offered. The advantages of cloud solutions are that you do not have to configure or manage the software, and you do not have to pay for the extra bandwidth that comes with streaming.
Many website owners, even media companies, rely on services like YouTube or Vimeo to host their videos. These companies do place some restrictions on content, but they are generally pretty flexible. They also offer ad services that allow the users to make money from video viewers. On the other hand, open source local solutions like Kaltura give you the ultimate flexibility to deliver your streaming content from your own domain, when and how you choose. Your ultimate decision will depend on your needs, expertise, and finances.


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With Apache 1.3, the load balancer plug-in requires:
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mod_ssl-2.8.16-1.3.x (source), where x represents the version of Apache. The mod_ssl version must match the Apache version.
gcc-3.3-sol9-sparc-local packages (for Solaris SPARC)
gcc-3.3-sol9-intel-local packages (for Solaris x86)
flex-2.5.4a-sol9-sparc-local packages (for Solaris SPARC)
flex-2.5.4a-sol9-intel-local packages (for Solaris x86)
The software sources are available at http://www.sunfreeware.com
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On the Linux platform, install Sun Java System Application Server on the same machine.
On the Solaris operating system, ensure that gcc version 3.3 and make are in the PATH, and flex is installed.
On the Solaris 10 operating system, before running make for OpenSSL, run mkheaders, located in /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3/install-tools on Solaris SPARC or /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.9/3.3/install-tools on Solaris x86.
If you are using gcc on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1, the version must be later than gcc 3.0.
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Have any of you ever been out and about in RL and you find yourself shopping for stuff for your SL avatar? Well, it happens to me a lot, and yesterday when i was out Christmas shopping, i bought this:
Anyone who knows me in-world, knows that i have a thing for skulls. Skull t-shirts, skull sneakers, skull earrings, necklaces, belts, tattoos...you name it, if it has anything skully on it, then i either already have it or soon will. i even have a folder in my inventory for all my skully items.
Note the skull t-shirt, and skull sofa. oh, and my favourite skully chucks...
For my SL, skulls suit me. In RL, i'm not quite sure how i would fit that purple skully purse in with my office wardrobe. I tried it out with a couple of blouses and different jackets, which my 7 year old daughter gave me an enthusiastic thumbs down for.
In the end, she reasoned that she would make better use of the purse than i would because she likes skulls too, purple is her favourite colour, and "my lunch box fits perfectly in it, see?" ok, ok, so i handed it over.
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"Singing of Vande Mata Ram is a prayer and against Islamic law as Muslims cannot offer prayers to anyone except Allah. Muslims should not sing Vande Mataram.â€This was the fatwa declared by Mufti Ehsan kazmi the deputy-in-charge of Darul Uloom, during the 30th general session of Jamait-Ulema-e-Hind held on the 2nd of November in Deoband which had re-ignited the issue of accepting 'Vande Mataram 'as our national song.
It has its origin some years back in 2006. It was the post centenary silver jubilee of that song. Having completed 125 years of its composition, the BJP wanted all institutions and schools to include Vande Mataram as a regular prayer.
This was not appreciated by the clerics who opposed it by saying that although they loved India, they cannot sing Vande Mataram as it interprets India in the form of Goddess Durga.
Not that all Muslims feel the same way. Â The National Secularism Front of India and the All India Muslim Tehwar Committee feel that there is nothing provocative about the song or nothing that can hurt the sentiments of any community.
The chairman of AIMTC Osaf Shameeri Khurram said, "Had 'Vande Mataram' been un-Islamic, then Maulana Hussain Ahmed Madani, Maulana Hasrat Mohani, Maulana Obeidullah Sindhi or martyr Ashfaqullah would not have laid down their lives singing Vande Mataram'.â€
Even Muslim women have joined the brigade. Naznin, the President of Muslim Mahila Front in Varanasi who has the translations of many religious Hindu Texts to her credit opinionated, "Who says Islam prohibits worshipping the mother. Instead, it teaches us that if at all there is a heaven, it is at her feet. Spirit of Vande mataram is worshipping mother India which every nationalist must do.â€
Founder of the "Art of Living†Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was of the opinion that Vande Mataram is just about respecting one's country and should not be considered as a song that was meant to create a rift amongst the communities. He had also added that he would talk to the Muslim Clerics on this issue.
After discussing the issue with them, no sooner had the spiritual guru informed that they have softened their stand on the issue, there came a statement by the chief cleric of Darul Uloom, Abdul Khaleque Madrasi, which said. "Contrary to claims that we have changed our view, we clarify that there is no change in our stand on Vande Mataram.â€.
Although he added that just as a fatwa could not be enforced on somebody, it was just an opinion on religious matters; similarly the choice of singing the National song should be left to the individual.


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New Interactive Video Game Challenges Players with Four Decades of Survey Questions.
SAN FRANCISCO – August 10, 2010 – Ubisoft revealed today that it will be publishing Family Feud® Decades, an interactive video game that challenges players with thousands of authentic survey questions from four different eras: 1970's, 80's, 90's and 00's. Created by Ludia and licensed by FremantleMedia Enterprises, Family Feud® Decades will be released November 9, 2010 in North America for the Wii™ system from Nintendo.
Similar to the Emmy Award–winning game show, which will launch its 12th season in national syndication with new host Steve Harvey the week of September 13th (check local listings), Family Feud Decades pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to survey-type questions posed to 100 people. Players will be challenged to answer questions from various decades correctly. The game has a fun, retro feel, featuring the classic set designs and scoreboards from each of the decades the TV show has aired. Additionally, players design a personal avatar to represent them in the game, with hilarious outfits from different eras including hippie, disco, grunge and more.
"Family Feud Decades is a fun game to play in a group setting. Players will get a chance to practice their trivia knowledge from recent decades in an engaging and entertaining way," stated Adam Novickas, U.S. director of marketing at Ubisoft. "It's the perfect game for the entire family as the questions represent information from a wide range of generations, and it's a great opportunity for parents to educate their children on events that may have happened before their time."
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As part of California State University Los Angeles' inaugural Eagle-Con, on May 1st at 3:15 PM, Top Cow Talent Hunt winner Hannibal Tabu will moderate a live-streamed panel (password "CCC2012") called "Color Inside The Lines: Superheroes of a Different Hue" (Facebook event page) featuring three entertainment luminaries …
Kevin Grevioux is an American actor, screenwriter, and comic book writer. He is most known for his role as "Raze" in the Underworld movies, where he came up with the original concept/premise and wrote the original screenplay alongside director Len Wiseman. He also created Adam the Blue Marvel for Marvel Comics.
Larry Hama is an American comic book writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro toyline. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
Vince Hernandez is a freelance writer currently residing in Los Angeles, Ca. He has worked with Aspen Comics, Electronic Arts, and Def Jam Entertainment as well as other companies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Aspen Comics, an entertainment publishing company. He has also worked for Top Cow Productions as Sales Manager from 1997-2001. While working full time as an editor and a writer, Vince is also working on a doctorate degree in psychology.
The panel will feature a video presentation looking at perceptions of heroes of color in popular culture as well as insight from the panel and questions taken from the audience and from the Komplicated Twitter feed. The day of the panel, look for an article here on Komplicated featuring the live streaming link.
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U.K. Minister Barker Seeing 22 Gigawatts of Solar Power by 2020
U.K. Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change Greg Barker said he's seeking 22 gigawatts of solar photovoltaic power installations in Britain by 2020.
The minister, who's due today to announce proposals for reforms of the feed-in tariff incentive that supports solar power in Britain, included the goal in a post on his Twitter feed. "My new solar ambition a reformed FiT to deliver 22 GW of PV by 2020," Barker wrote. "Yes, 22GW."
Barker twice cut rates in 2011 to prevent solar power from eating up the entire budget for feed-in tariffs, guaranteed prices for electricity that incentivize small-scale power generation from the sun, wind, water and biomass. Those cuts prompted a legal challenge from the industry, which said he was killing off a growing business.
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"NO" on Lame Duck Continuing Resolution (H.R. 5325)
This week, the Senate will vote on a 10-week continuing resolution (H.R. 5325), which in its current form is a substitute amendment (#5082) introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 40%. The amendment — the Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act — falls far short of conservative expectations. Throughout the summer and into the fall, conservatives said Congress should ensure the length of any continuing resolution did not require a post-election session of Congress. And throughout the appropriations process, Heritage Action evaluated each individual appropriations measure on the following three criteria: 1) level of spending; 2) funding of bad programs; and 3) exclusion of conservative policy riders. Heritage Action also uses these criteria to evaluate any continuing resolution, as well as factoring in a fourth, additional, and critical criteria: length of time.
Length of Time.The current bill would allow funding to lapse on December 9, requiring a post-election lame duck session of Congress. Some will argue that bill could be worse, but requiring a lame duck session will ensure things do get worse. A recent report from The Heritage Foundation outlines the history of lame duck sessions:
"In recent years, Members of Congress have planned on taking up controversial issues during lame-duck sessions in order to avoid explaining their votes to the electorate. Congress now increasingly relies on lame-duck sessions to conduct its regular work. This practice undermines the ability of the American people to hold their representatives accountable because it allows Members to deliberately postpone unpopular decisions until after their constituents cast their votes."
That is why over 100 conservative leaders, representing millions of Americans, recently sent a letter to Republican leadership asking them not to hold a lame-duck session after the November elections:
"Congress must not provide President Obama with an additional opportunity to enact his agenda of progressive social engineering programs and job-killing economic policies before he leaves office. A lame-duck session would be his swan song: He can be expected to leave no arm untwisted, no threat unmade, no quid un-quod, to get his dream-policies enacted, his liberal judges confirmed, and his international agreements approved…"
As President of The Heritage Foundation and former Senator Jim DeMint recently wrote:
"Even legislators who hold onto their seats know that a lame duck is the perfect time to sneak through massive, big-government spending bills when most Americans have happily turned to family and football after election season. For decades, Congress has intentionally delayed controversial legislation until it can be passed under the cover of a lame-duck session.
"Members of Congress who would usually object to these shenanigans are often dissuaded because leadership warns of dire consequences should these big, 'must-pass'" bills not go through at the end of the year. And believe me, speaking from personal experience, it's no fun being the guy keeping everyone at work in the Capitol building over Christmas vacation."
Level of Spending. The vast majority of Republicans rejected the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, a budget-cap-breaking deal negotiated by Speaker Boehner and President Obama that raised the debt ceiling with no offsets and broke the spending caps established by the Budget Control Act of 2011, despite the fact our country is facing a debt crisis of almost $20 trillion. Conservatives rightly rejected that approach and argued for passing a more responsible budget at the beginning of 2016, claiming that Congress should abide by the previous budget caps, and enact a budget at the lower $1.040 trillion level, instead of the $1.070 trillion as set by the budget deal.
Despite conservative objections, both chambers moved forward with appropriations bills marked to the higher number. Even though none of those inflated appropriations bills became law, both chambers now want to move a continuing resolution spends at the higher budget numbers, and which will add to the debt and deficit. H.R. 5325 contains four main fiscal components:
- A full year Military Construction and Veterans Administration appropriations bill that spends at the higher budget number.
- Funding for the 11 other appropriations bills, also at the higher budget numbers from last years' omnibus, reduced across the board by 0.496% to bring the total to $1.067 trillion. However, the Senate CR prioritizes non-defense spending by increasing it $1.6 billion above the domestic spending cap, but reduces defense by $4.6 billion below the defense spending cap.
- $1.1 billion in emergency spending to fight Zika. While $400 million is supposedly offset by spending "rescissions," the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that, in reality, only $75 million of the $1.1 billion will be recovered over 10 years. This means that approximately $1 billion of these new funds are ultimately unpaid for – adding to the debt and deficit.
- $500 million in additional emergency spending for Louisiana flood relief (also non-offset) – despite the fact the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) still has $3.4 billion available to spend on disasters for 2016.
This higher spending makes it more likely the caps will be broken in the next fiscal year, as The Heritage Foundation explained earlier this year:
"Worst of all, by caving to higher spending levels for 2017, breaking the budget caps again in fiscal year 2018—which are set to $16 billion below current levels—almost becomes a foregone conclusion for the big spenders in Congress. This sets up the next Congress to go back on its promise to rein in spending once again, erasing the one modicum of fiscal restraint imposed on spending during the Obama administration."
Funding of Bad Programs. A highly contested part of the Zika funding battle was whether or not Planned Parenthood, and particularly its affiliate in Puerto Rico, Profamilias, would have access to the additional funds. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) opposed the language contained in the House passed conference report of the MilCon/VA/Zika bill earlier this year, because it was difficult, but not impossible, for Profamilias to access the Zika reimbursement funds. However, the Senate CR language eases Planned Parenthood's concerns.
The Senate language replaces the House funding and restrictions with two new funding streams of $75 million and $20 million, but without explicit restrictions on who would be eligible for these funds. Specifically, the Senate version dropped the Medicaid requirement and makes the grants discretionary by allowing for "reimbursements" of Zika related health care expenses. This means that no one would be guaranteed money, but Profamilias would now be eligible.
According to Roger Severino, Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society:
"As if reauthorizing millions upon millions in taxpayer dollars to the nation's largest abortion provider weren't bad enough, Planned Parenthood has strong-armed Congress into also getting a cut of emergency funding for combating the Zika virus.
"Under the continuing resolution, Planned Parenthood will be eligible for a raise even though it should have been disqualified from taxpayer funding long ago because of its callous treatment of human life. Congress should fund life-affirming health care providers that are ready to deal with the Zika threat comprehensively, not abortion providers trying to expand their profit base.
"It's shameful that Planned Parenthood and its congressional allies were able to hold emergency health funding hostage until 'Big Abortion' got a cut of the new money. Congress should fund compassionate and life-giving care with taxpayer funds, not an abortion industry that has disqualified itself by placing profits over respect for human life."
Exclusion of Conservative Policy Riders. While Heritage Action cautioned that exchanging temporary conservative policy riders in exchange for a lame duck session will give President Obama and unaccountable lawmakers one more chance to pass permanent policies in the dead of night, some conservatives outlined a series of policy riders that should included in any continuing resolution regardless of length:
- Preventing the transition of the control of the Internet from U.S. hands to an international body called the "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN).
- Setting up a more stringent vetting system for Syrian refugees.
- Blocking the Department of Labor's new overtime rules.
None of these riders were included in the current version of the Senate bill.
As previously mentioned, Heritage Action evaluated each individual appropriations measure on the following three criteria: 1) level of spending; 2) funding of bad programs; and 3) exclusion of conservative policy riders. And, for the purposes of the CR, Heritage Action also considers 4) length of time.
The substitute amendment to H.R. 5325 fails each of these criteria.
Heritage Action opposes a short-term continuing resolution (H.R. 5325), including McConnell Substitute Amendment #5082, and reserves the right to include any vote to advance or approve the measure as a key vote on our legislative scorecard.


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Pallavan Jhallawar
Pallavan is located on a sprawling 10 acres campus located on the banks of the river Kali Sindh. The campus has been designed and landscaped by world class architects with experience in blending 21st century materials with the local cultural heritage and styles. The campus will also become a green campus in a phased manner. We plan to include features like rain water harvesting, use of solar energy. Spaces for visual and performing arts, pottery, engineering drawings, activity rooms, open air amphi theatre, sculpture, conference rooms have been planned
Pallavan Jhalawar,
which is a co-educational school for children, started classes from July 2008 and received a very enthusiastic response from the parents. Two new classes will be added in the academic year starting April 2010. From pre- Nursery to class V. We plan to make this a full fledged school from K to 12.
Pallavan will be a centre of excellence which will be a matter of pride for the state of Rajasthan. The school will cater to students mostly from Jhalawar and the adjoining districts and also from across the world.. It will be a school with cutting edge educational practices and technology, rooted in Indian culture and traditions. Its aim is to promote global citizenship in the context of the changing world scenario.
Pallavan will be a centre of excellence which will be a matter of pride for the state of Rajasthan. The school will cater to students mostly from Jhalawar and the adjoining districts and also from across the world.. It will be a school with cutting edge educational practices and technology, rooted in Indian culture and traditions. Its aim is to promote global citizenship in the context of the changing world scenario.
Mission Statement:.
The mission is to transform the school education landscape of India through the promotion of professional standardization, setting up excellent schools and the development of teacher training.
Aims and Objectives:
To provide an international quality educational institute. This is a unique project aiming to combine the entire education process including research, training and teaching. The institutions will provide world-class facilities and promote the latest theories of educational practice from anywhere in the world.
Planning/ Reporting
Each child has an IEP. This is an individual educational plan which is based on the needs of each child and shared with the parents.
All planning and reporting happens on the basis of this IEP.
School-Community Partnership
We view every school as a community resource, and every community as a resource of the school.
Pallavan will be a nodal hub for schools spread across the region.
Role of Teachers
The role of teachers will be more complex and demanding.
The teacher will be more of a coach, motivator and co-explorer with her students and facilitate learning.
Essential to the process of facilitation will be the teachers ability to link the appropriate set of interactions with the individual learning styles and interests of each learner as well as with the profiles of the communities that the learners perceive themselves as being part of.
Holistic Learning
The school will emphasize education aimed at equipping children with skills, knowledge and understanding to help them deal with real life challenges and help them become active and participating members of society.
Emphasis will be on the four pillars of education, namely, learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, and learning to live together with others.
What we want to achieve - The Joy of Learning
We believe that each child should be engaged in the PROCESS of learning i.e. the joy of learning as opposed to learning for a test.
Learning for the joy of learning gives the students conceptual clarity and the ability to transfer theory into practical life
Hence for us competition is not the unhealthy pitting of one child to another but bettering the best within ones self!
Given the broad range of learning styles, interests, backgrounds, needs and aspirations of learners, the curricula, on one level, will be linked to the daily life of the learner but, on another level, push the learners to explore beyond the mundane aspects of their daily lives into undiscovered possibilities.
There will be a curriculum for both teachers and students all members should be in a learning mode.
Besides the CBSE curriculum, the school will develop its own core curriculum that will focus on life skills, dignity, self-respect citizenship/civic education, pride in ones culture, language and heritage, values, human rights, sensitivity and respect for different viewpoints and living together harmoniously in a pluralistic world.
The fast evolution of todays societies and more specifically of labour markets requires new skills from individuals. Besides the conventional academic choices, the school will offer a variety of choices to discover their interests and strengths. The school will give equal thrust to the development of skills alongside knowledge.
The curriculum content and pedagogical methods in the school would be designed to prepare children for skills and competencies and adulthood, ready and motivated to carry on learning throughout their lives. Some of the salient features of the curriculum:
Pallavans curriculum is competency based where each child will have the opportunity to excel in some of these competencies.
The curriculum will be based on the concept of living in coherence with nature.
It will aim for the social, physical, cognitive, spiritual, emotional, ethical and aesthetic development of students.
Pallavans curriculum will develop varied skills and competencies in the students ability to understand different cultures, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, creativity and innovation skills, technology, multimedia and media literacy skills, collaborative and adaptive skills taking into account different learning styles.
The curriculum will emphasize the 21st century skills and competencies by incorporating the latest advances in technology, concepts and ideas that not only meet the needs of the world as it is now, but also anticipate the future.
An important feature will be the exchange programmes for both students and teachers which will be an integral part of the curriculum to give them a global perspective and share best practices with other institutions.
Pallavans curriculum has been devised by incorporating best practices from different education systems.
Internal Evaluation System
The internal evaluation system has been designed so that no questions are merely taken from the questions mentioned after every chapter of the prescribed textbooks. Care will be taken to see that the evaluation process encourages independent thinking and encourages the student to do research. This is because ultimately a teacher tends to teach according to the examinations point of view of the.
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"I'm so bored. I hate my life." - Britney Spears
Das Langweilige ist interessant geworden, weil das Interessante angefangen hat langweilig zu werden. – Thomas Mann
"Never for money/always for love" - The Talking Heads
Das Langweilige ist interessant geworden, weil das Interessante angefangen hat langweilig zu werden. – Thomas Mann
"Never for money/always for love" - The Talking Heads
Friday, March 10, 2006
party poopers on the Titanic
Stephen Pearlstein at WAPO, in four paragraphs, lays it out like an exasperated boiler room jack who has plugged your money into a black hole and is trying to tell you that th-th-th-that's all, folks:
"Maybe it was possible to get away with this noxious blend of arrogance and ignorance when the United States was the world's only economic superpower. But now that we've become the biggest debtor nation in the history of civilization, we might want to give a bit more thought to whom we tell to buzz off.
It was more than a bit ironic that on the very day that Dubai Ports World threw in the towel and agreed to sell off its U.S. operations, the Commerce Department announced yet another record monthly trade deficit for January, putting us on course to exceed last year's record deficit of $724 billion. At this rate, we are adding to our debt to the rest of the world at the rate of $2,500 a year for every man, woman and child in America.
Where do you think that $724 billion comes from? Let me tell you: It comes from the people who have the dollars. And in case you hadn't noticed, tops on that list are the Japanese who are selling us all those cars, Arabs selling us all that expensive oil, and the Chinese selling us the shirts on our backs, the athletic shoes on our feet and all those computers and flat-screen TVs in front of our noses.
If these folks suddenly get the idea that we don't really trust them enough to do business with them, and begin acting the way human beings do when they get poked in the eye, you could be looking at 8 percent mortgage rates, 6 percent unemployment, $4 gasoline, a $1.50 euro and a 9000 Dow."
Gee, Dad. Are you saying we can't afford the war?
But of course, Americans, dummies that they are, don't get the program. They don't get that, as they are stripped of all the good things they used to get under the old social welfare regime that taxed, actually taxed, the wealthy and shit (the horror!), they are also stripped of the right to say peep about who in particular owns them. Unfortunately, the notices haven't yet gone out in the mail. So the American people look at the joke called Homeland Security and go charging against scarecrows, and it is tut tut time for the think tankers. David Ignatius, who has been toured around the UAE by pro-American types just eager to use the sea of money coming in from oil revenues to do everything the pro-American way, can't get over the ingratitude of the American people. And it is a little puzzling.
After all, the American people have been so grateful to Exxon that not a word in anger has been spoken as the company gouged out the biggest profit ever made by an American corporation – and in fact, the American people felt so grateful to oil companies that even as the oil giants have been cutting back on oil exploration and R and D -- you know, the alternative fuels that will either have to get up and running in the next ten years or bye bye Americans remaining wealth, plus the health of the planet - and, instead, raining money down to its stock holders -- even while this was going on, the American people, through the Gov, was larding these companies with 7 billion dollars in handouts The Minnesota Star Tribune interviewed an petroleum hack who produced some beautiful prose on this issue:
"Profits are soaring, and that's part of the reason the U.S. oil industry has encountered slippery times. Congress is investigating the Interior Department's decision to grant oil and gas companies a $7 billion windfall - reducing required royalty payments for drilling on government land. Meanwhile, the New York Times estimated that natural gas companies have shortchanged taxpayers by $700 million in royalties.
In an interview Thursday, Sara Banaszak, senior economist at the American Petroleum Institute, said tales of royalty windfalls and oversized oil profits present a distorted picture of an industry that needs huge amounts of capital to capture energy that's getting harder to find.
Q: Why can't natural gas companies pay royalties in full when you and I have to pay our taxes in full?
A: Many companies are disputing what's owed under a number of different royalty programs. I'm not an expert on the details on this, but it's complex. The idea of royalties is you get producers to produce where they might not produce or to keep a well open where they might otherwise shut down.
If you are a large company and managing a lot of exploration risk - trying to decide where to invest - you need to manage your income over the life of the program. A single offshore well will [cost] $1 billion. You're trying to decide where you're going to drill and not going to drill. If you decide to drill into an area, based on royalty relief, [and] then it's removed, it's changing the economics.
Q: Do you think the industry's behavior is inviting more regulation by slipping through loopholes?
A: Where's the loophole? That's my point. If the New York Times reporter's "loophole" is [what the industry sees as] the rules being changed on them, it's not a $7 billion loophole. It's a $7 billion royalty relief program."
Royalty relief is relief for our royalty. So apt!
Never have so few pinheads in so little time pissed away so much – surely this will be on the tombstone of the American empire.
But now that LI has pissed to his heart's content on the think tankers, let's put in a good word for Bush. Lately, we are trying to be less ulcerous about the gang in the White House. And there is more good news today. Due to John Bolton's single minded, and simple minded, crusade to keep Americans from ever being subject to an international court, the U.S. Military is having to abridge its traditional ties with Latin American militaries. Whenever a country signs on with the International Criminal Court, the official Bush policy is to ask that country to exempt the U.S. If they don't officially do that, the U.S. cuts military aid. This policy brought forth a great deal of handwringing from Jackson Diehl, the WAPO's uberhawk, in a column entitled A Losing Latin American Policy. According to deal, U.S. military aid to Chile is going to be terminated next month. In fact, "12 of 21 nations in Latin America have been suspended from U.S. military training and aid programs because of the ICC rule, including Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay."
This is the best news of the day. Keep John Bolton – this is LI's new cause. The U.S. military has been the biggest misery-maker in Latin America since Pizarro made a deadfall on the Peruvian coast. To think that the Americans are going to discontinue their deadly subversion of Latin American independence due to the pique of a noxious neo-con gives LI an unusual feeling of joy and peace. Unfortunately, the military is trying to water down the Bolton amendment to our military aid covenants. Don't let them! Call the State Department (Condi's number there is: 202-647-5291) and stand four square behind Bolton's ultra American American ultraism. Are we going to abandon our Rebel in Chief now, at his hour of greatest danger? Hell no.
Ps -- another LI band pick for SXSW. Check out this Black Angels track, black grease. The chorus expresses LI's feeling post the Rumsfeld hearings: But I kill kill kill kill/I kill what I can, dear
oh oh
That Rice, trying to impose a liberal scheme on these here United States! Why, you can hear the wind whistle mightily in the nostrils of any number of C.S.A. Senators:
"SANTIAGO, Chile, March 11 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated Saturday that the United States would look for ways to resume military assistance to Latin American nations cut off from aid programs because of their refusal to shield Americans from the International Criminal Court."
This story does have a comic side, however:
"Officials traveling with Ms. Rice said that in meeting with President Evo Morales of Bolivia, she had emphasized the importance of cooperating on efforts to combat drugs despite his vow to end coca plant eradication programs. The newly installed Bolivian leader favors the legal cultivation of coca, the plant used to manufacture cocaine, but says he opposes cocaine and has agreed to let American antidrug officials remain in the country.
In a friendly but pointed gesture, he gave Ms. Rice a small guitar decorated on the front with real leaves from a coca plant in lacquer. Ms. Rice, perhaps not realizing that the decoration was from the plant that the United States has sought to eradicate, then smiled and strummed the guitar for television cameras. American officials said Bolivian leader was clearly trying to show how growing the plant that is made into cocaine is a part of his nation's culture."
Like Bush, Rice clearly can't resist a guitar.
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Re: Your new campaign.
If our goal is opposing The Empire, then maybe you're right: the real solution is to be a CHEERLEADER for the the Bush Administration, as their incompetence makes impossible the too persistent dream of interventionism throughout the world.
I wish I had the link to the fascinating three-part essay on a survivalistic doom and gloom site in which the author, a Russian, described the parallels between the fall of teh Soviet Union and our perils. It was interesting his explantion how the good ol evil empire actually survived its downfall much more easily than we will.
Ah. Here it is. From the somewhat hysterical (at least, I really, really hoppe so. Sometimes I wonder, increasingly. It's now snowing in the Bay Area-near Sea Level-peak oil+crazy climate?) From The Wilderness site:
- roger said...
Brian, are you accusing me of being tongue in cheek?
First I gotta get my tongue out of my cheek to even reply!
While it is true I was doing a little hoist with their own petardism, if I am always, tediously chronicling the bad but unintended effects of the Rebel in Chief's foreign policy, I have to concede that there is a chance for good but unintended effects too. This is one of em. God bless it.
Well....I just like the IRONY of how our vaunted "realist" "looking out for American interests" foreign policy debacles always turn out so....bad. Not that our last big moralist, Carter, has clean hands, either.


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BP's Dividend Yield Offers `Opportunity' as Work to Plug Oil Well Begins
BP Plc's market-leading dividend yield make the shares a buy as the oil company attempts to plug the Gulf of Mexico spill that cut the stock price by a quarter, analysts said.
BP offers a ratio of dividend to share price of 8.4 percent, the highest among 18 peers and more than the 6.1 percent for Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the company's closest European rival, according to Bloomberg data. BP is down more than 20 percent since the blast on Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and triggered the leak.
BP rose the most in more than a year today after the U.S. Coast Guard said the top kill technique was having some success in stopping the oil and gas flowing into the Gulf by plugging the well with heavy drilling liquids. BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward has promised to clean up "every drop" of oil, an effort that's costing his company about $22 million a day.
BP's stock drop "is a fantastic opportunity to buy a very high quality long-term business on a very cheap rating," said Tom Nelson, an analyst at Guinness Atkinson Asset Management in London. "Tony Hayward will fight tooth and nail to protect the dividend."
BP advanced 5.9 percent to 520.8 pence in London. That compares with a year-to-date high of 655.40 pence on April 20.
BP had free cash flow of $3.4 billion in the first quarter and made a record $6 billion in profit on $73 billion of revenue. It has maintained the dividend at 14 cents a share for five quarters.
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Hayward reduced the company's net debt ratio to 19 percent in the first quarter from 23 percent a year earlier, and the company has a AA credit rating from Standard & Poor's. The price/earnings ratio is 6.6. That compares with 10.7 for Shell and 13.3 for Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's biggest energy company.
"Financially, they're strong enough" to cope with the costs of the spill, Brian Gibbons, an analyst at CreditSights Inc. in New York, said in a Bloomberg Television interview yesterday. "It's a buy at these levels."
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The dividend yield for BP, Britain's biggest company after HSBC Plc and a staple stock of the country's pension funds, is now more than twice the 3.5 percent yield on 10-year U.K. government bonds.
Prime Minister David Cameron is fighting to shrink the budget deficit of about 12 percent of gross domestic product this year, bigger than Greece, Italy and the U.S., according to European Commission forecasts.
"The yield on BP has grown considerably more than its peers," said David Hart, an analyst at Westhouse Securities Inc. in London. "The market may have sold it off too much. But the dynamics of the situation will change a lot if top kill doesn't work."
Hayward said the chances that top kill will succeed are between 60 percent and 70 percent. The procedure may take two days to complete and has never before been attempted at the depths of this well, 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) under water.
"If top kill doesn't work, the stock will continue to decline," Philip Weiss, an analyst at Argus Research Corp. in New York who has a 'hold' rating on BP, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "If it works, it could be a benefit."
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Notice I didn't argue price. The system we have in place currently is absurdly expensive when it doesn't need to be. In my opinion, if the AMA didn't have the strangle hold over medicine and licensing that it does, then the insurance companies would be able to inflate prices so much. Then with some decent tort reform to address lawsuits and cross county and state-line exchanges, there would be much more care and for much cheaper prices. Only problem is that the damn lobbyists for all three own congress...
But correct me if I'm wrong, I've always read that the Average Life Expectancy factors in Infant Mortality rates. The US is one of the few countries that "starts the clock" immediately upon birth while most countries wait hours and, in some cases, days to count them. That artificially inflates the IMR which should impact the ALE. My whole point is that while we do pay too much, the care is actually quite good.
Here we go with the tort reform BS lie. It ishard to sue a doctor ok? It's a lie fomented by insurance companies to try and get limits on judgements. You know so when some doctor cuts off the wrong leg the only have to pay 500 thousand and not 3 million. People seem to think that lawsuits get won where people where not seriously injured. That is bs. You may see some hacks get someone 50 grand here and there but that isn't what tort reform is about. We have juries and judges we are supposed to rely on to decide damages. Limiting them with tort reform is just another **** you to ordinary americans who get injured.
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ACE South of the Border 2017 Part 5: La Feria Chapultepec Magico & Perimágico La Feria Chapultepec Magico Our final day in Mexico included a trip to the other large Mexico City amusement park, La Feria Chapultepec Magico, located in a large city park. Opened in 1964, it is the city's traditional amusement park. I was looking forward to this as it has the third and final of the world's Mobius wood coasters for me to get to. Montaña Rusa (Roller Coaster): (NAD, Wood Mobius Racer, 1964) A Mobius coaster is a twin track coaster that only has one […]Read more →
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ACE South of the Border 2017 Trip Report While I have travelled a good bit in Europe and Canada over the last few years, I had never been to Mexico. Concern for safety has always made it a destination I have been somewhat apprehensive of visiting, but hoped that someday I would be able to make the trip with a group. I seriously considered the Coaster Zombies trip in 2014 but in the end decided not to go. So when ACE announced the South of the Border trip for spring 2017, I jumped at the chance. While I wanted to […]Read more →
Southern California, Utah & Nevada Coaster Trip – Part 7: The Coasters of Las Vegas & Primm Las Vegas Mini Gran Prix On Monday August 8 we headed back to Las Vegas for the last leg of our trip. We arrived at Las Vegas Mini Grand Prix in Las Vegas, NV around 12:30. Operating since 1993, this Family Entertainment Center has a kiddie coaster. Dragon Coaster: (Wisdom Rides, Kiddie, 2000) This gave the expected ride – 1 ride. They also have Dive Bomber Airplanes; Tornado Twister; Super Fun Slide; Go Karts; Sprint Kart Speedway; Adult Gran Prix; and Kiddie […]Read more →
Southern California, Utah & Nevada Coaster Trip – Part 6: ACE Preservation Conference at Lagoon Lagoon Amusement Park After an early morning drive on Friday, August 6 from Fillmore, UT we arrived around 9:00 a.m. at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, UT for ACE Preservation Conference 2016. Operating since 1886, this is one of the oldest amusement parks in the country. I visited in 2012 and enjoyed my day and eagerly looked forward to spending more time here. We had an unusual schedule in that we had 2 full days at this park, Friday and Sunday with a tour of […]Read more →
Southern California, Utah & Nevada Coaster Trip – Part 5: Six Flags Magic Mountain One of my main reasons for suggesting southern California for this trip was to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA. With more coasters than any park in the world and knowing it could be crowded, we originally planned a day and a half. Once the final Preservation Con schedule was released, the need to be in Utah Friday morning shortened our half day to 2.5 hours, but at least that was more than just one day. The challenge would be that among the […]Read more →
Southern California, Utah & Nevada Coaster Trip – Part 4: Knott's Berry Farm & Adventure City Knott's Berry Farm On Tuesday, August 2 we headed to the next park on our trip, Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA. Operating since 1940, this was a berry farm long before that. In addition to growing berries, the Knotts opened a restaurant to serve fried chicken to visitors, and it soon became so popular that guests were waiting a long time for a table. To help guests from getting bored during their wait, Walter Knott built a Ghost Town attraction adjacent to […]Read more →
Southern California, Utah & Nevada Coaster Trip – Part 3: Disneyland Resort Disneyland When Southern California was suggested, Richard immediately said we should go to Disneyland. He had done the two Disney parks, Knott's Berry Farm and flown home in 1 day in 2007, so he really wanted to get back and see what all he missed. While I have had 2 multiday trips to Disneyland, I am never one to turn down a trip to any Disney park, so I was glad that we set aside two days for this. We decided not to stay on property as I […]Read more →


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Skip to comments.Afghan policeman guns 10 of his fellow officers, a day after Afghan gunmen kill 6 US soldiers[3USMC]
Posted on 08/11/2012 3:05:27 PM PDT by huldah1776
KABUL, Afghanistan An Afghan police officer killed at least 10 of his fellow officers on Saturday, a day after six U.S. service members were gunned down by their Afghan partners in summer violence that has both international and Afghan forces questioning who is friend or foe.
A day earlier, two Afghans shot and killed six American service members Friday in neighboring Helmand province in the south where insurgents have wielded their greatest influence.
In the first attack, an Afghan police officer shot and killed three Marines after sharing a pre-dawn meal with them in the volatile Sangin district, according to Afghan officials.
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Get out! Get ou! Get out!
By staying in that shithole we are only uping the body count and not changing anything. This isn't nation building - this is stupid.
We need to get the hell out of there.
Lots of this stuff.
Slightly older:
Same massive flowershover.
Anyone trusting islamics is insane.
Good men are dying for no good cause.
It's time to bring this brutal folly to a swift end.
These people are not to be trusted.
Get out and let them go back to killing each other and beating their wives.
Just Nuke the whole crap hole over their glaze the desert then build a giant wal-mart.
I agree. Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Our mission was to stop Al Qaida by obliterating its bases in Afghanistan. This morphed into nation building, which will never, ever work in Muslim nations.
All Middle Eastern Muslim power structures devolve to the tribal, and it matters not whether the leader at the pinnacle of that structure is a tyrannical dictator or a king. Personal power is the only power that matters and personal power is a zero sum game. No one can trust anyone else. The only rule that counts is that the one with the most power.
So, whether it is pirates or terrorists, we deal with both exactly the same. We deal harshly with them when we catch 'em; a trial by military tribunal and an immediate hanging afterwards.
As to those nations harboring terrorists and pirates, we deal harshly, too. They will be punished until it hurts so much that they literally kill any remaining terrorists and pirates themselves.
No nation building!
You beat me to it! We're sacrificing our most precious resource - the young men & women of this nation......for NOTHING!
Get out and let the 7th century barbarians kill themselves!
The whole Islamic Democracy thing is going really well, isn't it. Another fifty years, and maybe they will stop killing us for helping them.
"This morphed into nation building We had not choice. The Taliban/Al Qaeda WAS their government and social structure. When we took them out we HAD to leave something in its place."
Hello? The Taliban are still there and they arn't going away. The Afghans are who they are, a tribal people, and there is no way to force another, alien system on them.
Mostly importantly, it isn't the responsibility of the U.S.A. to leave anything for those people. One thing we should definitely do for ourselves is burn the poppy fields - destroy the source of so much human suffering. Have you noticed? That hasn't been done.
I've read through most of the posts and the over-whelming response is "Get out." I'm all for that — but we're not out yet and I got a daughter going soon for a year?
I'm concerned for her. Should I be REALLY concerned? What are the numbers for troops that return safely?
The world is upside down.
That whole country deserves to be made into molten glass.
The Poppy fields is why the US is there, not "nation building". New record crops each year. Islamics as transporters/enforcers.
Know your hidden history ;).
Disarming was done to insure that NO armed Afghans were around him.....US troops were not feared.
But they were included in ban to placate the locals.
The Afghans are a bunch of treacherous subhumans, good for nothing but causing trouble.
Sometimes, genocide is the only morally correct solution.
Losing more Americans for no reason is not an answer.
The Afghans and the Taliban know we are leaving and are now going to start slaughtering our people wholesale, without fear of retribution.
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Engineering News-Record (ENR)
"With the majority of Americans at risk for some type of natural hazard," says Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer, in a report by McGraw-Hill Construction, "planning for and mitigating against disasters should be a key focus for policymakers at all levels of government. If we are strategic about how and where we build, hazardous events don't have to be devastating disasters." Blumenauer is a keynote speaker at Engineering News-Record's (ENR) upcoming Mitigating Disaster through Design & Construction conference, taking place March 2-3 in Washington, D.C.
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Souchii Ethnic Printed Hippie Pants
Brand: Souchii
Price: Rs. 549
Embrace your inner happy hippie with this pair! Cut from cotton for comfort, you're assured all-day ease thanks to the broad waistband with elasticated sides and drawstring. Simple and bohemian with an all over ethnic print and an elasticated hem, you will absolutely love this for your casual collection. Team this with a tucked in tank top with mojaris. Did you know: Ever wonder where your missing baggage ends up? There's an Unclaimed Baggage Store in Scottsboro, USA, that sells whatever isn't picked up.


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From Jefferson County Commissioner Brent A. Weaver:
Road construction season is here; generally March through October depending on weather.
Please be aware we will have road crews out on the roadway during this time and please observe all warning signs posted for work crew safety.
We will be applying primer oil and other materials during this road re-building phase, please avoid parking on the roadway during this time. In addition, please refrain from driving on the roadway when the oil is fresh; but if you must utilize the road please be aware your speed should be kept below 5 miles per hour to avoid getting primer oil on vehicles if they must travel on the road while the oil is fresh. Also if you drive on fresh oil; be aware the fresh oil could be tracked onto your concrete driveways. Your cooperation in keeping a safe speed while traveling in the construction areas is also appreciated.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation during our road re-building process in front of or near your home.
The road project schedule for Pct 2 is listed below:
Road Names Roads to be rebuilt in Precinct 2 -2012 Hillebrant Road From Bridge to Lene-.6 Lene to Hwy 365-.4 Garner Road From Curves to Hill area .5 -Hill to Labelle -.3 Grant Street From Price to Deadend of Grant Price Street From Deadend of Price to Spurlock road Burrell Wingate From Wiggins to Criagen Road Jefferson Street From Price to Deadend of Jefferson Ave H. From Hwy 347 to Texas Ave. Park Loop From North Garden to Park Loop Hillebrant road 7-Marked spots 4 ft width @ 4-6 inches depth Burrell Wingate Bomag southend past Rice & Wheat Craigen Road 1-Marked spot 4 ft width @ 4-6 inches Humble Camp 1-Marked spot 4 ft width @ 4-6 inches depth Walker street Lee Street Park Street From Hwy 366 to Grisby street Hogaboom Road From Hwy 366 to Witaker street–Groves Port Neches Streets See list below Nederland Streets See list below Wiggins Road Hillebrant Road from Bridge to Lene Lane =.6 bomag and double chip seal–from Lene Lane to Hwy 365 Chip seal = .4 Garner Road bomag from Curves to Hill area =.5 and Bomag from Hill area to Labelle Road = . 3 North Garden bomag to Park Loop repair and repair cross pipe and re-cut ditch going to DD7 outfall Port Neches Street Projects
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This is a tentative schedule and is subject to change due to staffing, weather and budget. As we continue to evaluate the road conditions we could add or re-schedule road projects depending on staffing and budget.


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Seeking Tech Mentors for Latina Parents
Cause Areas
WhenIt's flexible! We'll work with your schedule.
Where3040 16th StreetSan Francisco, CA 94110
Work one-on-one with Parent Leaders as they build technology skills that will benefit their work and families. Mission Graduates is recruiting our next cohort of Latina Tech Mentors.
As a mentor, you will
- meet twice a month (commitment 2 hours/month) with your mentee
- develop a personalized work plan
- begin to tackle areas parents feel will support their outreach work for Mission Graduates
- help navigate online academic resources that will support their own child's academic success
We will provide curriculum, resources, and ongoing training and support you throughout the 6-month commitment.
If you are a Spanish-speaking woman, available to meet in the Mission District Monday-Friday between 9am-5pm, please respond to this posting or email Jenna Casey, Community Engagement Manager, at email@example.com.
Mission Graduates is a nonprofit organization that increases the number of K-12 students in San Francisco's Mission District who are prepared for and complete a college education. Our Parent Partner Program builds parent participation and bridges relationships at our partner school sites throughout the Mission neighborhood.
- Tutoring
- Spanish
- Basic Computer Skills
- Teaching / Instruction
Good Match For
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- Orientation or Training
- 2 Hours/Month
- Spanish speaker


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It's hard to imagine that Puzzle Pirates launched five years ago, but it's true. The online game from Three Rings has seen quite a lot over the years, too. In fact, according to Three Rings there have been over 250 million hours of puzzling, 4 million Puzzle Pirate accounts and one and a half million forum posts. That's a ton of puzzle skulduggery, not to mention the laundry list of past game updates. We can only hope for the same kind of content in Whirled.
As part of the celebration for five years going, Three Rings is recognizing all their longtime pirates with a special in-game trophy to show off. We hope Puzzle Pirates and its players see another five fine years of updates, pirating and puzzling on the high seas!


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Randy Orton, Triple H and John Cena Becomes Comic Book HeroesDecember 2, 2009
I just found out that WWE has taken another venture. This time, it is in comic books – WWE HEROES. I think it's a great idea, as it covers most of their target market. I am a big fan of comic books too, so seeing my favorite WWE Superstars immortalized in comic books is awesome!
The character line-up so far includes Triple H, Undertaker, Batista, Shawn Michaels, Big Show, John Cena, CM Punk, Kane, Edge, Chris Jericho, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Carlito, Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Kelly Kelly, and WWE owner Vince McMahon and of course, the reason why I bothered to write this—Randy Orton. And no, Randy doesn't seem to be the antagonist.
There's a character called the Shadow King that's the primary villain. He's supposed to be an ancient being that basically is obsessed with the WWE. Then there's a character called the Firstborn who is like the protagonist, I think. The story goes that Shadow King might be in the roster. Cute, isn't it?
If you ask me, Undertaker could be the Shadow King. He's undead, right?
Anyway, I've seen a few of the artwork and I think they're pretty amazing. It's going to be launched on March 23, 2010. The people working behind it have backgrounds of working for DC Comics, so you know it's good. You can read part 1 of an interview with the editor here to find out more.
For more information go to their site: http://wwecomics.com/
You can also follow their facebook and twitter or sign up for their newsletter.


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Affluent Lifestyle Guide
I?m eating my words right now. I?ve always said that you could wear a trash bag and still be chic with the right clutch. How wrong I was. Rihanna may have covered up her hair with a retro scarf and her eyes with a cute pair of shades, but pop music?s favorite good girl gone bad lived up to her title as she left the Gansevoort in NYC wearing a black maxi dress slit up to you know where. Yikes. Does her gorgeous red Céline bag has the power to redeem this outfit? Riri?s been seen carrying the rolled Summer ?13 Trio clutch all around the city and it?s no mystery why ? with three distinct pockets, it?s perfect for a globe-trotting celeb who wants to keep life organized. The sleek style is the epitome of class and sophistication, and frankly, that dress is just not. What do you think ? snob or slob? Inquire at Céline.
The post Rihanna x Céline Trio Bag: Snob or Slob? appeared first on Bag Snob.


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strange-attractor website
Strange Attractor is a mathematical term that refers to a system in chaotic motion
This site features the scientist Charles Darwin, the poet Stevie Smith and Cardiff Museum Writers
Charles Darwin (1809-18820) whose best known work is The Origin of Species, longed to be an explorer when he was young and was thrilled to be invited to join a round the world voyage which began his career as a naturalist and father of modern evolutionary ideas.
Darwin's writings are often surprising: worms are shown to accomplish great feats of strength, pea-hens to have surprising powers of discrimination, and an insect eating plant called sundew secretes the same digestive chemicals as the human stomach. His writings often deal with forms of life and behaviours which are unexpected, grotesque and even comic. His last book on worms, for instance, includes an account of how his family played the bassoon and piano to worms to find out if they could hear.
His vision of the natural world, made not by God in 7 days but by the natural selection of small changes in multitudes of plants and animals over millions of years turned the conventional world view upside down and led to great controversy. it was fiercely opposed, and also enthusiastically championed, sometimes by people such as eugenicists who reached conclusions based on an incomplete understanding of the evidence. The relationship between past and present species and the environment are much more complex than was understood in Darwin's time.
On the Darwin pages I explore his writings and refer to other writers whose work influenced him, which include the poets Wordsworth and Milton, the explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the geologist Charles Lyell. To explore Darwin's life and work begin with Darwin's biography, or, to see his work as part of an ongoing exploration of how species originated, start with a short history of evolutionary ideas from ancient Greece to the present.
Stevie Smith (1902- 1971) whose best known work is the poem 'Not Waving but Drowning', longed to become an explorer when she was young but became a secretary and wrote novels and poems in her spare time. She lived in a London Suburb all her life with her aunt.
Smith's poems explore death, despair religion and a variety of human relationships. Seas, rivers, mountains, geological time and suburbs feature prominently in her poems, together with cats and dogs and a variety of other animals including anacondas, lions, mosquitoes. voles and parrots.
Animal poems are sometimes dismissed as trivial, but animals play important roles in all societies and in literature. The biblical story of creation firmly separates mand and beast but in ancient mythologies and fairy tales humans, supernatural beings shape shift into each other. In mediaeval bestiaries and Aesop's fables real and imaginary animals embody aspects of religious or moral teaching. Skylarks and nightingales illuminate the Romantic poets' conception of the sublime and Darwin's vision hovers over 20th century writers on the natural world .
Smith gathered material from many sources for her poems, from her suburban neighbourhood and contemporary writing on astronomy to the world of myths and from other writers as various as Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Thomas de Quincy and Racine.
To explore the pages on her life and work go to the Stevie Smith biography or the Stevie Smith home page
The poet Chris Torrance also has pages on this site
The copyright of the poems, prose, and photographs on this web site are the property of the authors. Stevie Smith's work is reproduced here by kind permission of the Estate of James MacGibbon. Stevie Smith's works, or any part of them, may not be downloaded, reprinted, or reproduced in any other form without the permission of which may be requested by contacting Faber and Faber
You may print any poems or prose by Anne Bryan and Chris Torrance for your own use or to pass on to a friend, but please don't copy the poems, prose, or photographs into assignments, magazines, newsletters or web sites without permission or acknowledgement. Ask for permission by E mail
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|Itanium Architecture for Programmers:
Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles
by James S. Evans and Gregory L. Trimper
The practical guide to computer architecture—using the Itanium design by Hewlett-Packard and Intel
Itanium Architecture for Programmers can help students and professionals to master the fundamentals of computer architecture and assembly-language programming using one of the world's most advanced and high-performance architectures: the 64-bit Itanium processors. This book introduces assemblers, debuggers, instruction formats, addressing, branch instructions, logical operations, explicit predication, the register stack engine, and many other features of a very new computer architecture. The book delivers real-world guidance for solving practical programming problems along with extensive sample code. Coverage includes:
Learn how processor architecture impacts performance, including the roles of instruction size, addressing mode, instruction power, program size, in-line functions, recursion, pipelining, compilers, and post-compilation optimization. The book includes extensive references to Itanium resources for Linux and HP-UX. It will be an invaluable resource for engineers, programmers, and students alike.
The authors maintain a supplementary web site http://www.viika.com/itanium/.
This book was been published in 2003 by Prentice Hall PTR in the HP Professional Books series, ISBN 0-13-101372-6.


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Re: Family of Carlos Pereira/Fall River
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Re: Family of Carlos Pereira/Fall River
Rose Fox 10/12/05
Dear Rose. Thank you for taking time out to answer me, it is very hard work finding relatives I wish you all the luck in the world.If you should find someone who knows Edward R. Pereira PLEASE tell him we are looking for him. Again thank you. Vivi