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What: Public meeting on Boulder bear/trash policy
When: 5 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, presentation at 5:30 p.m.
Where: West Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave.
More info: https://bouldercolorado.gov/wildlife
Boulder needs to move beyond just education and get serious about enforcement, including increasing fines and requiring bear-resistant trash cans or indoor storage of garbage in some neighborhoods, advocates for bears said in advance of a public meeting on the city's trash policy.
And representatives of Western Disposal said there could be ways to significantly reduce the cost of bear-resistant trash cans if the City Council adopts a policy to require the cans in a large portion of western Boulder.
Boulder residents are invited to give feedback on a variety of options at a meeting Monday at the West Senior Center.
The Boulder City Council is scheduled to look at its trash policy Jan. 21.
Four bears were killed this year in the city by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, leading to calls for much stricter enforcement against people who store their trash in ways that attract bears.
Boulder Urban Wildlife Coordinator Valerie Matheson said the city has developed a number of options on which it wants to hear public opinion before making a recommendation to the City Council.
One option would be to require bear-resistant trash cans for homes west of Broadway, north of Greenbriar Boulevard and south of Wonderland Lake, an area that includes more than 12,000 homes and that has seen most of the city's bear activity in the last 10 years. Alternately, bear-resistant cans could be required in a smaller "high bear activity" area that includes roughly 6,900 homes or for areas that have alley trash pickup.
Residents who have curbside service already can't put their trash out until 5 a.m. the morning of pickup, but those with alley pickup can leave their trash out all week. Most bear activity occurs in alleys.
Another option would be to require that trash be stored either inside a shed, garage or other bear-resistant structure or in a bear-resistant container if it is outside.
The city is also considering increasing the fine for allowing bears to get into trash from $100 to $250 and waiving the requirement for "direct serve" on trash violations. "Direct serve" means that enforcement officers have to find a responsible person to deliver the violation notice, which makes it much harder to issue violations.
In the past, many Boulder residents objected to the extra cost of $10 per month per can for bear-resistant trash containers. And bear-resistant trash cans were only available in larger sizes, so residents who used smaller trash cans faced an even larger price increase.
Matheson said Western Disposal officials have told her they could lower the cost of bear-resistant cans to $3.75 per container per month just by having residents unlatch the cans themselves the morning of pickup. Having trash collectors unlatch the cans adds significantly to labor costs.
Western could then bill customers an additional $2 if their can was not unlatched.
"In 2011, when we were proposing one option for requiring bear-resistant containers, it didn't seem like there was a lot of support, and cost was a significant concern," Matheson said. "It does seem like this time around there is more support for bear-resistant trash cans."
Bryce Isaacson, Western's vice president of sales and marketing, said it's possible the company could reduce costs even further by finding a way to retrofit existing containers. However, the company is waiting to see what direction the City Council takes before researching and seeking bids for those options.
Bear-resistant cans have to be tested and certified to show they could withstand a sustained assault by a bear for a long enough time that the bear likely would get bored and wander away.
Western is also researching options to make commercial Dumpsters more bear-resistant.
Isaacson said that level of investment would depend on the city requiring the cans over some portion of the city.
If the city goes in that direction, Western would offer the bear-resistant cans in all three sizes and would also lower rates for customers who are voluntarily paying more for bear-resistant cans now, Isaacson said.
Robin Richmond, a member of the Boulder Bear Coalition, which advocates for policies to reduce bear deaths, said the experience of mountain towns like Aspen shows that stricter enforcement changes behavior much more than education alone. The coalition wants residents to be required to store their trash either inside or in bear-resistant containers.
"Some people do store their trash appropriately," she said. "We're not trying to mandate that people who are doing the right thing pay extra money. What we're trying to do is work on the people who are maybe less aware or students who come for eight months of the year and then go away."
The coalition also supports higher fines and wants to see money dedicated in the city for trash enforcement, much the way the city puts resources into parking enforcement.
"If we had guys like the parking guys who did trash, they'd be killing it," she said. "We'd ultimately like to end up in a situation where we have no more violations because they either have bear-proof trash cans or they're storing it in an adequate way so that the bears aren't coming down as much."


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Mmmm I have no power when it comes to QVC and their stupid special value sets. For £28 I ended up with this set which includes: Soft Lights in Radiant (10g) and Waterproof Shadow Liner in Smoke (3g), and new colours of Lip Enhancing Gloss in Couture (6ml) and Eye Shadow trio in Glow On (2.25g). There's also Photo Op Under Eye Brightener (7.1ml), Camera Ready Concealer (2.3g) and Original Photo Finish Foundation Primer (15ml). Completing the set are three new brushes – Shadow Liner, Precision Concealer and Crease Tip.
I am not a fan of Smashbox – I haven't as yet, tried anything from their range that takes my breath away.
So let's see – the softlight blush a pink with highlighter looks fine – the taupey smoke waterproof shadow looks HOT! Is it really creaseproof? Time will tell but the colour is smokin'. Lipgloss is lipgloss, the trio looks borrrinnnggg, the under eye brightner is a pile of crap, the concealer I have never tried, the primer is spots in a tube – the brushes look great especially the crease tip.
So overall, I really want the smoke eyeshadow and the three brushes. The blusher looks fine as does the gloss. The conceler could be good. The primer and brighter I already know is a pile of crap.
Is it worth the £34 (inc shipping). Well if it isn't I will pass it on to little . God knows the little tyke needs some eye brightening!

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Jackson Preparatory School helps teachers achieve work-life balance with Google for Education
To help teachers achieve a better work-life balance, the administrative team sought to replace the school's aging technology (a free, Linux-based solution) that was both time-consuming to manage and difficult for new teachers to learn. They needed an affordable cloud solution that would be easy for teachers to adopt and allow them to grade assignments at home without having to lug around stacks of papers. In addition to helping out their teachers, the school also wanted to provide students with access to technology that would prepare them for college and their future careers.
"I have dramatically reduced the amount of time I spend in front of the paper copier this year by distributing documents, worksheets and outlines through Google Classroom and sharing quizzes through Forms."
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In 2011, Jackson Preparatory School introduced G Suite for Education (formerly called Google Apps for Education) to all of its 836 students and 110 teachers. Google Classroom was a welcomed addition to G Suite for Education in 2014. To help the entire faculty team and staff learn how to use the new tools, the school held a professional development workshop on the morning of a late-start school day. The session helped teachers get up to speed quickly without needing to stay late or come in on a weekend.
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Gold fell 2 percent to a 4-1/2 month low on Friday after minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve highlighted increasing concerns over its highly stimulative monetary policy, knocking stock markets lower and boosting the dollar.
Fears that central banks' money-printing to buy assets will stoke inflation had been a key driver in boosting gold, which rallied to an 11-month high in early October after the Fed announced its third round of aggressive economic stimulus.
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Spot gold fell to its lowest since late August at $1,629.59 an ounce, and was heading for its sixth week of losses - the longest such run since June 1999. Gold was down 1.9 percent at $1,631.60 per ounce at 1021 GMT.
U.S. gold futures for February fell 2.6 percent or $43.50 an ounce to $1,631.10.
"The market had been too preoccupied with the sheer size of the quantitative easing programme, and had not seen that at some point you would need a phase out of QE policy," Christin Tuxen, an analyst with Danske Bank, said.
"The timing will be earlier than the market had been initially expecting, which is negative for gold."
Minutes from the Fed's December policy meeting showed some voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee were increasingly worried about the potential risks of the Fed's asset purchases on financial markets.
Ultra-loose monetary policy implemented by leading central banks had fuelled gold's rally as a climate of historically low interest rates heightened inflationary fears.
Recent positive U.S. economic data has fuelled the view that further steps to stimulate the economy may be unnecessary. Investors are keenly awaiting U.S. non-farm payrolls data due at 1330 GMT on Friday for a clue to the pace of economic recovery.
The figures are expected to show the economy added 150,000 jobs last month, after adding 146,000 in November. Tuxen said that if the payrolls data reveals that the economy added at least 200,000 jobs, gold prices could extend losses.
Technical analysts, who study past chart patterns to determine future moves in prices, say the failure of key support at $1,635 could lead to a further retracement.
"Since the peak we saw in early October we've been in a downtrend," Cliff Green of the Cliff Green Consultancy said. "The rally from $1,635 to $1,695 has always been just a correction within that downtrend, and this (current move) is a resumption of that."
"If we break (support around $1,635), we're vulnerable to a movement down toward the $1,600 area," he added. "Our short- to medium-term outlook is bearish. We've had a good correction against that trend, which looks complete, and now we're resuming that downward path."
Among exchange-traded funds, the SPDR Gold Trust reported an outflow of 9.638 T yesterday, the biggest one-day decline in its holdings since Sept. 26.
Lower prices spurred buying from jewellers in Asia, keeping premiums for gold bars steady in Singapore at $1.10 to $1.20 to spot London prices.
The Shanghai Gold Exchange will lower trading margins and daily trade limits for its gold and silver forward contracts to meet growing investor demand, the bourse said on Friday.
Among other precious metals, silver was down 3 percent to $29.24 an ounce, having also slipped to a 4-1/2 month low at $29.21 in earlier trade.
Silver's underperformance made the metal its cheapest compared to gold since late August, with 55.76 ounces of silver now equivalent to one ounce of gold, against 50.4 in early December.
Platinum group metals also fell, although they outperformed gold and silver. Platinum fell 1.1 percent to $1,541.25 and palladium slipped 1.4 percent to $680.25 an ounce.


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A business association formed to upgrade Boston's downtown is getting a boost from an unexpected source: all the companies that initially refused to contribute to the improvement effort.
Starting Jan. 1, commercial property owners within the so-called Business Improvement District will be required to pay fees to the organization under state legislative changes that eliminated companies' ability to opt out.
In downtown Boston, that will increase annual funding by $1.2 million, or 40 percent. The money will be used to power-wash streets, install public art and landscaping, and deploy "ambassadors" to direct tourists, remove graffiti, and pick up trash.
"We know people are satisfied with the direction we're going in, and this will allow us to improve upon the level of service already being delivered," said Rosemarie Sansone, president of the Downtown Business Improvement District, or BID.
Formed three years ago, the BID was the first such group to be established in Boston. Sansone and other city leaders pledged to use fees from property owners to help transform the time-worn area and attract a new mix of retailers, modern homes, and office tenants.
Although the BID is widely credited with improving the downtown's appearance, the decision to opt out by some 60 property owners had left it without funding for more substantial upgrades. The largest holdouts were the office landlords Tishman Speyer and Equity Office Properties, whose holdings accounted for about $950,000 in uncollected fees.
A spokesman for Tishman Speyer declined to comment Tuesday. Equity Office Properties did not respond to a request for comment.
Meanwhile, a company that initially declined to participate said it is now eager to join the BID, convinced the organization is making a significant difference.
"The area is cleaner, there is no doubt about it," said John Murtha, general manager of the Omni Parker House hotel. "I'm confident the BID and its board will do a good job making sure these additional funds are well spent."
Last week, the hotel hosted a gathering of BID members, who voted to renew the organization's funding for another five years. That vote allowed the BID to update its rules to reflect 2012 legislative changes that eliminated the opt-out clause. A BID from Springfield successfully lobbied the Legislature to make the change.
If commercial landowners fail to pay the annual fees, BIDs can place tax liens on their property.
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Independent artists and musicians celebrate Independence Day for First Friday, sponsored by the Hood River Downtown Business Association and GorgeArts.
On Friday from 5-8 p.m., downtown businesses host local artists and performers for the monthly event.
Enhanced by live music and entertainment, First Friday is among the Columbia River Gorge's top cultural events. Artists working in diverse media are on hand to showcase and sell their art, and a variety of performers entertain throughout the downtown area. Each participating business extends its hours until 8 p.m.
The Columbia Center for the Arts located at 215 Cascade, will host an open house from 2 to 8 p.m. for tours. Visitors will have an opportunity to see the vision for the new center, including potential renovation plans and artists concepts for the design of the exterior.
This month's show at the Columbia Art Gallery will be Art and Politics — Open Invitational mixed media.
Highlighted artists for the July event include Evlory Dearing, Ruth Reflexions and Mary Eberle at A Salon Day Spa Boutique, Cheryl Hall, Cathleen Rehfeld and Kathryn Snyder at Doug's Sports, Elizabeth Anderson at Gorge Dog, Susan Kline at Gorge Surf Shop, Richard Hallman of Freelance Imaging at Holstein's Coffee Company, Sally Bailey at Hood River Stationers, Dyann Andresen of Sunrise Inspirations at Kerrits, Maren McGowan at Visitors Information Center, Sasha Decker at Waucoma Bookstore, John Mayo at Yum Gallery and Carousel Art Historians at International Museum of Carousel Art.
Highlighted musicians include Mark Pearce at Hood River Wine Bar, Wild River at Discover Bicycles, Charles Crosman at At Home on Oak Street, Henry and John at Hood River Hotel, DjangoÆs Cadillac at 6th Street Bistro & Loft and Swing Time at Hood River Bagel Co.
The evening fireworks display, put on by the Eyeopeners Lions, will begin at dusk and is launched from the Hood River waterfront.


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Morsi denial of Copt persecution just Shariah-speak
'A classic example of the Islamic inversion of reality'
Amid eyewitness accounts and press reports that Copts are leaving their homes after being threatened, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi denies there is anti-Copt persecution.
In an article in AllAfrica.com, Morsi said, "Persecution does not exist on Egyptian soil. We are all people of the homeland."
An Egyptian citizen who lives in Cairo who asked not to be named for security purposes says the denial is because of how Morsi defines persecution.
"Morsi denies outright the Copts are persecuted in Egypt," the Cairo resident said. "Morsi is not lying because he sincerely believes what he is saying."
"The Western definition of persecution differs to Morsi's understanding of persecution because Morsi is following the Islamic meaning," he explained.
Islam analyst and Jihad Watch, publisher Robert Spencer agrees, saying the difference is perspective is an "inversion" of reality.
"This is a classic example of the Islamic inversion of reality. In the Muslim view, Islamic law – Shariah – is synonymous with justice and fairness, even though from our perspective it oppresses women and non-Muslims," Spencer said. "Thus when the Copts are persecuted in accord with its dictates, that is, from the Muslim perspective, not persecution, but justice."
The Cairo resident believes the issue goes deeper. He says Morsi believes Copts are second-class citizens.
"As a member of the Brotherhood, Morsi subscribes to the Islamic tenets of treating non-Muslims as second-class citzens. They must be subdued, they are not equals with Muslims, they do not enjoy equal status with Muslims," he said.
The Cairo resident added that Islam believes all non-Muslims are "fair game."
"They are fair game. Islam teaches this is not persecution, the Quran refers to non-Muslims in the derogatory terms, kaffir, non-believer, infidel, people of the book," he said adding Morsi believes the Copts are receiving normal treatment by Islamic standards.
"At the end of the day Morsi is telling us, this is not persecution. This is normal, this is fair, there is no problem," the Cairo resident said.
The concept that persecution of non-Muslims is normal is a part of Islamic Law. Spencer adds that the perspective on the issue would be different if Muslims were receiving the same treatment as the Copts.
"If Muslims were persecuted, that would be persecution, as it would not be in accord with Shariah," Spencer said.
"However, Copts being persecuted is just the way things are ordered, according to Shariah, and so it is justice, not persecution," Spencer said.
The Cairo citizen believes there will be no reversal for the status of the Copts.
"Morsi believes that nothing needs to change, so nothing will change. The status quo will remain and persecution of the Copts as taught in Islam will continue under Muslim Brotherhood rule," he said.
WND reported that Egyptian human rights activist and writer Wagih Yacoub said Copts are being forced to leave Rafah and armed militants are firing at their businesses.
"We've seen it today. People are going to the Sinai, shooting at Christian's shops. They're telling the people to leave their homes," Yacoub said. "It's especially because they are Christians."
"The Copts are being evicted from Rafah in Sinai and have been evicted from Basshur, and the government has done nothing at all," Yacoub said.


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Last week I talked a bit about parisitoid fly larvae. Now, the genomes have has been published for three species of parisitoid wasps in Science. These guys are every bit as brutal as the flies, and then some. They forcibly inject their eggs into their insect hosts, often caterpillars. Some species inject multiple eggs while other inject a single egg that later divides into many cloned larvae that form a colonial social hierarchy within their host. Once they mature, the larvae burst out the side of their host. However, even this insult isn't the end of the torture for the unfortunate caterpillar. The larvae employ mind controlling chemicals to force the caterpillar to use its silk to build them a cocoon, and then watch over its pupating murderers until it keels over dead.
Parisitoid wasp larvae from National Geographic's, "In the Womb." Watch in high quality for maximum revulsion.
Nature, you are one psychotic bitch.
Read this review for a wider overview of parasitoid wasps and their contributions to pest control and biological sciences, including discoveries made in the recent genomics work.
One interesting point jumped out at me. The parisitoid wasps are insanely diverse, with species estimates exceeding 600,000. Entomologist Michael Strand even posits that,
There's a really compelling argument that these parasitoid wasps may be more diverse than beetles[.] Virtually every arthropod on Earth is attacked by one or more of these parasitoid wasps.
This extreme diversity seems to be tied to rapid evolvability (a concept that I have noted before in regards to arthropods) and rigid host specificity. While some wasps are generalists, laying eggs in a variety of arthropods, the vast majority parisitize a specific host species. This specificity is the result of evolutionarily optimized venoms and mind-controlling toxins, tailor made for their host species, and leading to rapid divergence of parisitoid wasp populations as they discover new host animals. This is not unlike the algal specificity of the sea slug I discussed last week. Its biology is ideally suited for maintaining chloroplasts taken up from a single species of algae.
Researchers hope to develop parisitoid wasps as a research model and exploit their prey specificity for pest control that will benefit agriculture. With bio-engineered parisitoid wasp terminators coming soon to a pasture near you, aphids and caterpillars should just cut their losses and run for their lives.
The Nasonia Genome Working Group, 2010. Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species. Science, 327(5963), 343-348.


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Movie review: 'Turtles' audiences will soon forget these heroes in a CGI-half shell
The steroidal title characters in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" look as if they're going to end up on a cartoon version of the Mitchell Report. Some day, historians will look back at this generation's baseball players, Outback Steakhouse appetizers and ninja turtles as symbols of the era's excess.
Come to think of it, the whole "TMNT" movie is over-inflated, like watching an otherwise tolerable music video, stretched out to 101 minutes. There are so many better ways to spend the last few weeks of summer vacation – including seeing superior movies in theaters right next door to where this one is playing.
OK, that wasn't totally fair. No one was expecting "Boyhood" or even a "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" level of quality with this film. Like the first "Transformers," the latest attempt to introduce "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" arguably exceeds its low expectations.
Besides WWE-level pectoral muscles and biceps, two things the new turtles have going for them:
1. After years of rumors that the film would deviate from the original comic book vision of Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, the movie sticks fairly closely to its history. The opening credits sequence is particularly effective, using cel-shaded comic art to introduce the characters.
2. Whatever you think of the rest of the movie, as fully realized flesh-and-blood CG characters, the turtles are impressive and almost always convincing. (The creepiness you noticed in the trailers is intentional, and wisely acknowledged multiple times in the script.) While Leonardo and Rafael lack the pathos of Gollum, it's just as easy to forget that they're visual effects creations.
In this "Ninja Turtles," Leo, Raf, Michelangelo and Donatello are the result of a science experiment, trained for 17 or so years in the sewer by their life-size rat sensei, Master Splinter. They're too immature for the real world to see them yet, but bolder crimes by The Foot Clan leader Shredder forces them into the open.
Megan Fox is April, an intrepid journalist who never seems to be writing anything down and needs to get rescued a lot. Will Arnett appears to be playing his Gob character from "Arrested Development" as a TV cameraman. William Fichtner, as a billionaire with a horrible secret, has effectively played the nice-guy-who-really-is-sinister so many times on the big screen, one can only assume the real Fichtner gives out the best Halloween candy on his block but has 20 bodies secretly buried in his backyard.
Michael Bay didn't direct "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," but you get the impression the producer was peering over the shoulder of Jonathan Liebesman, shouting commands to ensure the movie was made to Bay-ian specifications. ("More slow motion when the human Swiss Army Knife thing throws the daggers!")
Liebesman is very good at giving action audiences what they want the most (coherent action sequences and relatable characters) even as he leaves out the things that professional movie critics demand (narrative coherence and a mature take on a subject).
In the long run, the divide between paying audiences who think they got their money's worth and outraged critics tends to shorten. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is one of those films that 20 years later, filmgoers won't be able to remember if they watched the entire thing, or just saw the trailer. Contextually, there's very little difference between the two.


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Before 2014 was more than a few hours old, we got news of yet another massive data breach. This case involves 4.6 million user names and phone numbers of Snapchat users — including mine. Passwords weren't compromised but phone numbers associated with the account were posted online (minus the last two digits) by a group whose stated intention was to embarrass Snapchat for not having fixed a known security risk. On the same day, the official Skype account on Twitter was hacked, reportedly by the group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. Only weeks earlier, 40 million Target accounts were compromised.
In both the Snapchat and Target cases, there was really nothing users could have done to prevent their accounts from being compromised other than not using a credit or debit card at Target or not following Snapchat's suggestion of providing your phone number to enable it to help you find friends.
I think about security risks a bit like I think about transportation. If you're driving your own car, there is a lot you can do to increase your safety. You don't have complete control — another driver could slam into you — but there are plenty of things you can do. But if you're on a plane, you're pretty much at the mercy of the airline and the various government agencies that regulate air travel. Sure, it's up to you to put on your seat belt and stow your objects during takeoff and landing, but other than that, there's not much you can do.
Airline safety is regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration, but Web and app security is pretty much up to the individual company you're doing business with. While I'm reluctant to propose federal regulation, I do think government should play some role in protecting consumers, given the risk and consequences of these breaches.
One issue with regulation, said National Cyber Security Alliance CEO Michael Kaiser, is that "technology is complicated and forever changing." Unlike the airline or food industries, the underlying technology used by some of these online sites is constantly evolving. But government, said Kaiser, can help encourage "a culture of security from day one."
I agree. Sometimes it feels like companies think about safety, security and privacy as something they can put off rather than bake in from the start. It's almost like an automaker with a new model waiting until it had shipped a few thousand units before getting around to installing brakes, seat belts and air bags.
One thing government has done is this: The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework that lays out a series of steps that various sectors of the economy can use to implement best practices in cybersecurity. The executive order, signed by President Obama last February, called upon the institute to establish a "prioritized, flexible, repeatable, performance-based, and cost-effective approach" for assisting organizations responsible for critical infrastructure services to manage cybersecurity risk.
The trick is to avoid government micromanagement of how companies protect their infrastructure while encouraging companies to improve their security. It's a tough balance because there will always be forces trying to get government to put the hammer down on companies with lax security, and there always will be forces arguing that the government should keep its hands off industry for fear that it can stifle innovation. The answer lies somewhere in between, where government holds industry accountable while at the same time allowing industry to use its own talents and resources to find solutions.
There is also the trade-off between security and convenience.
We can make sites and services more secure by requiring things like dual factor authentication or perhaps biometric devices like fingerprint readers or iris scanners. But these would come at a cost to convenience. As any airline traveler will tell you, post-911 regulations to make the skies safer have also resulted in longer lines and more invasive security procedures that many of us grumble about every time we go to the airport.
In the meantime, it's up to each of us to do what we can. We can't police the servers that companies use to store our data but we can make sure we have strong passwords and good PC and network security.
Having a secure password wouldn't have protected Snapchat users in this breach, but it's still a very good idea. Of course you also want passwords you can remember. My strategy is to think of a phrase and then use the first letter of each word in that phrase with at least one uppercase character plus a symbol and a couple of numbers. For example, the phrase I met Susan Jones in 1992 could be ImSJi#1992. To avoid using the same password on every site, I add a letter or two at the beginning or end that I associate with the site. I also use a password manager like Roboform or Lastpass so I don't have to type in the password each time.
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Microsoft Puts the Squeeze on Samsung
Jul 6, 2011 12:02 PM PT
Microsoft has reportedly trained its Android patent guns on Samsung Electronics, demanding US$15 for every Android-based handset the Korean manufacturer produces.
If true, this could be the highest fee demanded by Redmond for its Android patents so far.
Microsoft is reportedly getting royalties of $5 per Android device from Taiwanese mobile device giant HTC.
The move on Samsung comes on the heels of Microsoft's signing up two other companies -- General Dynamics' Itronix division and Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron -- to cough up royalty payments for using Android and, in Wistron's case, Google Chrome in their devices.
"Redmond has figured out how to successfully milk the Android cash cows," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider. "I expect the company will continue adding to its dairy herd over time."
Essentially, Microsoft claims that the Android operating system may contain violations of Redmond patents. The company's attempted to convince companies that use Android in their products to sign licensing agreements to avoid possible future litigation.
"Microsoft is not commenting on this issue," company spokesperson Emma Mahoney told LinuxInsider.
Neither Samsung nor Google had not responded to requests for comment by press time.
Pay a Little Now, or a Lot Later?
Microsoft appears to have stepped up its efforts to get royalty payments from companies using Android or Google Chrome.
Aside from the companies it's already made agreements with, two of its other targets, Barnes & Noble and Motorola, are fighting Microsoft in court over its attempts to get royalty fees from them over their use of Android.
Microsoft paints these agreements as examples of the important role intellectual property plays in ensuring a healthy and vibrant IT ecosystem.
Not everyone agrees.
"Microsoft's approach is to take you into a back room and tell you, 'We have patents, we won't tell you what they are, but a lot of people have agreed to pay up so we have a case,'" Bill Weinberg, principal analyst and consultant at Linux Pundit, told LinuxInsider.
Welcome to the Jungle
Microsoft's strategy in demanding royalties of $15 per Android device Samsung makes remains unclear.
"It seems steep to me, especially given that Microsoft's getting only $5 per handset from HTC," Pund-IT's King said.
It could be that the size of the demand is an opening ploy that Microsoft expects will kick off a round of bargaining, King mused.
Or it could be that Samsung is a better target.
"Perhaps Microsoft thinks Samsung has deeper pockets or stands to profit more from Android than HTC, especially since it's moving toward the tablet space more aggressively," King suggested.
Samsung is the leader in the Android device space.
Another possibility is that this demand is a preliminary flexing of Microsoft's muscle.
"Maybe Microsoft believes its position for demanding payments from Android product developers is so strongly established that it can significantly up the ante," King hypothesized.
"That $15 per device is a starting position," Linux Pundit's Weinberg opined.
There's No Such Thing as Pure Hate
Historically, Microsoft has had a rocky relationship with open source software in general and Linux in particular, and its moves in regard to Android, which is based on Linux, could strengthen the generally unkind view Linux fans have of the company.
However, Microsoft has embraced certain points of open source and has created the CodePlex Foundation, Linux Pundit's Weinberg pointed out.
Redmond changed the name of the organization to the Outercurve Foundation.
Although Microsoft has "made a huge effort internally to shift culturally, it's not as if they sit down every day and have lunch with a penguin," Weinberg said.
"Microsoft have done a lot, but it's not the same as a complete embrace, and, where it suits their needs, they're still fighting the old battle," Weinberg added. "It's just more nuanced."


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On July 27, 1953, Rosanna Warren was born in Fairfield, Connecticut. She studied painting at Yale University, where she graduated in 1976, and an MA in 1980 from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
She is the author of Ghost in a Red Hat (W. W. Norton, 2011); Departure (2003); Stained Glass (1993), which was named the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets; Each Leaf Shines Separate (1984); and Snow Day (1981).
She has also published a translation of Euripides's Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully; Oxford, 1995), a book of literary criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2008), and has edited several books, including The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field (Northeastern, 1989).
"Rosanna Warren lives in our tarnished, everyday, ramshackle world of loss, anguish, and sacrifice," writes poet Anthony Hecht, "but she inhabits almost as vividly a realm of classic purity; and in some of her best, most moving poems she dwells in both regions at once, and within, as it seems, the same breath. It is a beautiful miracle of bilocation."
Her awards include the Pushcart Prize, the Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the May Sarton Prize, the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the Ingram Merrill Grant for Poetry, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award, the Nation/"Discovery" Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Warren served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. In the fall of 2000, she was The New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.
She is a contributing editor of Seneca Review and the former poetry editor of Daedalus. She was the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. She is a professor at the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago and lives in Chicago, Illinois.


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Chiang Mai City rides towards a "Green Future" in Thailand
When I was asked to produce a video about the Chiang Mai Sustainable Urban Transport Project, I thought it would be really interesting for me to see how Thailand's second largest city had changed. The last time I visited Chiang Mai before this was 15 years ago, in the 1990s.
Chiang Mai is now very vibrant and full of potential. There is an energetic, creative buzz about it and yet it still manages to hold on to its unique heritage and identity.


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It wasn't fear of a major disaster that motivated Doug Ellis to stock up on $5,000 worth of food, 300 gallons of water and a generator that could power his house for a week.
"My motivation is my family, but my fear is economic downturn and, here in Utah, an earthquake," said Ellis, who is raising four kids with his wife, Robyn.
Most people aren't like Ellis and his family, who are prepared for any possible disaster. A majority of Americans at least somewhat agree that they are not prepared for a major catastrophe, according to a January 2012 National Geographic study.
At least half of respondents to the study believe there will be a significant earthquake, hurricane, terrorist attack or financial collapse in the next 25 years.
Experts say the problem is that, unlike with Ellis, motivation for emergency preparedness is often the product of fear after a natural disaster, not before.
A smoking gun
"We always see a peak in disaster preparedness when there is a disaster," said Ryan Longman, manager of the state emergency preparedness organization Be Ready Utah. "Then a couple of months later, it drops off again."
Traffic to the site BeReadyUtah.gov rose by 64 percent after Sandy made landfall compared to the week prior, and grew by 230 percent the day after.
When word of a possible meltdown at a nuclear plant in Japan following the tsunami in March reached Utah, traffic increased by 412 percent.
The spike in traffic shows that people tend to care more about preparedness after a disaster strikes elsewhere, Longman said.
"We see a lot of people who are into the idea, but it's about actually taking those steps to get physically prepared," Longman said.
Tomorrow's Harvest, a food storage company based in Kaysville, Utah, has seen its sales dramatically increase since 2008, Mike Porenta, the company's co-owner and chief operations officer, said in an interview for a recent Deseret News article.
Revenue at Tomorrow's Harvest has jumped by 900 percent since 2009, Porenta said, while declining to give specific figures.
Porenta is also the chief operations manager for the American Preppers Network, one of the biggest online forums and resources for people stocking up on food storage.
The group had its biggest sales year ever in 2011, and Porenta expects 2012 to be even larger.
The company sells freeze-dried food and other items for emergencies. It did 50 percent of its business east of the Mississippi in 2011 and just 5 percent in the first quarter of 2012 was in Utah.
"That is new for our industry. We've always just dealt with the West," Porenta said. "I think the financial crisis of 2008 really started pushing people, and the movement swept."
Jason Hall, manager of the website UtahPreppers.com, has also seen this trend of fear-based preparation at the time of disaster.
"It's just like any other difficulty in life; you don't want to deal with it until you have to," said Hall, who uses the skills he learned from his parents with his three children and wife, Kelly. "Obviously something like a storm brings reality into people's faces."
Hall says emergency preparedness is a lifestyle rather than a one-time purchase of food and water.
"Don't be reactionary but be proactive and thoughtful about what you're doing," Hall said. "That's really the art of preparedness. Making those decisions yourself and not being motivated by some outside influence."
A real danger
Using FEMA's earthquake modeling software, called HAZUS, the state of Utah was able to estimate the damage if a 7.0 earthquake were to hit the Wasatch fault line. The numbers are only estimates and not predictions.
The state estimates more than 10,000 buildings would collapse and 285,000 would be damaged, according to BeReadyUtah.
There would be an estimated 2,300 people killed and 30,000 more injured if an earthquake were to hit. Another estimated 350,000 people would be displaced due to damages to property.
The quake would cause $35 billion in damages and 160 fires, according to the study. Water could be cut off for months.
FEMA considers an earthquake the biggest threat to Utah mainly because the state hasn't experienced a major one before, Longman said.
Not just hurricanes, earthquakes
Hall says that preparing for earthquakes and hurricanes is important, but that's not as common as other problems that could beset a family.
"Most people don't like to think about it, but the more common cases to prepare for are job loss or reduction," Hall, a 36-year-old software engineer, said. "The same skills that go into getting ready for a disaster, like a Hurricane Sandy, are the same things that will help you if you lose your job for a couple of months."
Being prepared
Ellis says he has lived most of his life feeling that he and his family are safe.
He and his wife have been setting aside food, water and other preparedness items since they were married in 1992.
"It's a gradual progression," Ellis said. "It's not something you can wake up and one day say, 'Hey, I'm going to do food storage.' This is something that is a constant rotation. You have to eat what you store and store what you eat."
Ellis is now the emergency preparedness specialist for a group of congregations in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He helps members of the LDS Church in his community develop emergency plans.
"I don't think people really know how to attack it," Ellis said. "It's not something you just do tomorrow and you're done."
What to get
The Utah Preppers blog has many posts on how to get started on emergency preparedness.
In a phone interview, Hall gave a list of the most important things to focus on when bracing for an emergency.
Ensuring that your family has plenty of water is top priority.
Establish or purchase a 72-hour kit, which will provide basic needs for you and your family.
Make sure that you and your family have sufficient medications on hand if anyone needs them. For example, if someone needs insulin, make sure there will be enough.
First aid training and materials are important in case of injuries.
Keeping your family safe from the elements if you lose your home is crucial. Make sure you have a place to stay safe from the elements.
A store of food is important, but relatively low on the priorities because of the human body's ability to go without food for long periods of time.
Financial preparation is a matter of using it wisely and saving properly, Hall said. You and your family should be able to afford a hotel if you need one.
"The essence of preparedness is trying to mitigate a disaster down to something you can get through," Hall said.
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SarahAldridge necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 150 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
In Harmony
In Harmony has come from very humble beginnings when I struggled to find commercial products that do not irritate my sensitive skin. After sharing these home-made, natural products with my family and friends I began to see a niche market of people who suffered from the same problems as me. So as my client base has grown, I am in desperate need of a simple, yet eye-catching logo that will appeal to these natural minded people throughout WA. The distinctive characteristics of my products is that unlike most skin care preparations, I have avoided toxic ingredients such as:
- propylene glycol
- parabens
- petroleum products
- sodium laureth sulphate
- synthetic colours and fragrances
Instead, In Harmony uses natural ingredients such as:
- plant-based oils
- essential oils
- natural waxes
This has resulted in a beautiful, natural skin care range that is good to your skin and that is not tested on animals!
I hope to find a group of designers that will create a professional logo and are as passionate about the need for more natural products on the market as I am!
In Harmony is aimed at all ages from teenagers through to the elderly - anyone who cares about what they are putting on their skin!
Although seen as quite a feminine product, and in all truth, females will be our main buyers - we do not want this product to be limited to the ladies so please keep this in mind when designing. We want men to feel like they can and should use these wonderful products too!
This product range is all natural so therefore, anyone who is wary of chemical products or has been swept away by the 'green' media frenzy will also be a major element of our target audience.
I am looking for a simple, yet eye-catching logo for my beautiful natural skin-care range. When designing this logo, there are a few things you need to keep in mind:
- Although a home-based, local WA business I would like to portray a professional image with the hope of expanding to more retailers throughout Perth and WA. It is very important that this logo, although professional, does not seem at all clinical.
- Please stay away from excessively feminine colours such as pink - we want this product to ultimately appeal to both sexes.
- It is essential that this logo reflects the values that this product upholds which includes natural ingredients without chemicals and petroleum products. Please consider this in any fonts or images that you decide to use.
- I am really looking forward to seeing some creative logos that hold these characteristics!
Just some housekeeping:
- Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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Maintenance of Ruby 2.0.0 ended on February 24, 2016. Read more
Rake version 0.8.5 introduced greatly improved support for executing commands on Windows. The "sh" command now has the same semantics on Windows that it has on Unix based platforms.
Rake version 0.8.6 includes minor fixes the the RDoc generation. Rake version 0.8.7 includes a minor fix for JRuby running on windows.
Improved implementation of the Rake system command for Windows. (patch from James M. Lawrence/quix)
Support for Ruby 1.9's improved system command. (patch from James
Rake now includes the configured extension when invoking an executable (Config::CONFIG)
Environment variable keys are now correctly cased (it matters in some implementations).
Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern scripting language built right into your build tool.
The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems …
gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges)
Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places:
As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes. The following people either contributed patches, made suggestions or made otherwise helpful comments. Thanks to …
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SCARBOROUGH — Student athletes and those active in co-curriculars will be required to pay a fee to participate beginning in the fall.
The fees for all high school sports are $100 per sport, and $50 for co-curricular activities. The fee for all middle school sports are $75 per sport and $25 for co-curricular activities. The only exceptions to these fees are for service activities such as the student council.
The fees aim to raise $200,000, which will pay for coach and adviser stipends.
"The Policy Committee spent months looking at a variety of options," said School Board Chairman Brian Dell'Olio. "They formulated a plan around how many students we have participating."
Because athletics tend to cost more to run than co-curricular activities, the fees are higher. While sports such as football and hockey are more expensive to run than track or cross-country, all the fees are set at a standard rate.
Students who receive free or reduced lunch at school will not be required to pay the fees.
"We put in safety nets. Even if they're not on the free or reduced lunch program, there's a system in place if they can't afford the fee," said Dell'Olio.
Students can let their coach or adviser know they cannot afford the fee and it can be waived.
Dell'Olio said the fees were a response to parent requests that, rather than cutting programs, the schools impose a fee structure to support activities and sports.
"We had the council chambers packed with people saying, 'we'll pay for athletics and co-curriculars,'" said Dell'Olio.
During a School Board meeting on June 17, the fee structure was approved by a vote of 6-1, with Colleen Staszko opposed. At the same meeting, a motion was approved to amend the policy and allow participants to pay a flat fee of $300 at the beginning of the school year that would cover all activities for the year.
"This throws another option in for families," said Board member Jacquelyn Perry.
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Nov. 20, 2004
COLFAX, Wis. - The NCAA Division III Regional Runner of the Year, Ben Schmeckpeper added a second All-America citation to his growing list of career accolades this past weekend. The MIT senior and Wisconsin native earned the national distinction after finishing eighth overall at the NCAA Championships with the time of 24:49.
The return home was nothing but sweet for Schmeckpeper, who matched the second-highest finish ever at NCAA's by an MIT harrier in the last 20 years. Dan Feldman finished fourth overall in 2001, while Jesse Darley equaled Schmeckpeper's eighth-place effort in 1995.
Josh Moen of Wartburg College repeated as NCAA Champion, breaking the tape in 24:28. Schmeckpeper was thinking nothing but Gold during Saturday's race, a strategy that potentially cost several places toward the finish as fifth place crossed the line less than a second ahead of Tech's lone NCAA rep.
The 2004 team championship went to Calvin College, which won easily despite not having any runners in the top 10. The top individual finish among the top five teams was sixth place, a testament to Schmeckpeper's strength on the national scene.


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The Daily Word in the Bitcoin blues, WTF WIPP and lizard rampages
There's more proof that walking your dog can be good for you: a couple found $10 million in rare gold coins while taking Fido out for a stroll.
Meanwhile, in Florida, four foot long lizards are invading the swamps and eating up all the native animals because of course they are. It's Florida.
The CEO of the world's largest Bitcoin exchange asks you not to contact his employees with questions about where your money is because "they have been instructed not to give any response or information." Sounds legit.
San Francisco hates Google and San Francisco bar patrons hate Google Glass.
Oh hey, WIPP. WIPP is still leaking radioactivity, but DOE officials would like you to know everything is just fine. Really, man. They got this. You don't need to worry your pretty little head about it at all.
Former Navy Seals hired to protect a ship got so bored waiting for pirates to show up that they decided to kill themselves with heroin.


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Thank you, Interim Provost Para, and welcome students, faculty, staff, Board of Governors, Alumni Association Board of Trustees, honored guests, to our new academic year at The Beach. I first would like to thank our Chair of the Academic Senate Professor Praveen Soni and Provost Para for their timely and well thought out remarks as we head into another academic season.
It is my distinct pleasure to also welcome you to the 2009-2010 California State University, Long Beach Convocation. Over the years this event has become very important for our university because it is one of the few times during the year where our faculty and staff are able to collectively come together to exchange ideas in preparation for the upcoming year.
Convocations in the past have given me an opportunity to share with you our recent year's achievements while also discussing many of the new initiatives that will occur during the academic year. Unfortunately, due to the state budgetary circumstances caused by a dysfunctional state government in California, the focus of my presentation this year will be a bit different than it has been over the last four years. I will get into those issues a bit later in this presentation.
However, I first would also like to welcome our new cohort of tenure-track faculty and lecturers, who have come to our campus with very impressive academic credentials and backgrounds. Despite being the smallest cohort of new faculty that we have had in many years due to budget and hiring limitations, we are very pleased to have these individuals join our campus family because they bring a wealth of knowledge, diversity and global awareness to our university. Please know that all of our dedicated faculty and staff will certainly do our best to ensure that you get off to a great start in your new careers at Cal State Long Beach.
I also would like to welcome a small cohort of new staff members to our campus family. "Graduating" students, not simply enrolling them, is the responsibility of our entire campus community. Achieving this goal requires the collective efforts of academic affairs, student affairs, staff professionals, and many, many others within our campus community who work collaboratively to create effective pathways for student success while also working to remove many prohibitive barriers. All of our wonderful staff play critical roles in achieving this objective for all of our students. Welcome new staff members.
I also would like to use this opportunity to invite you to our campus "move in" day tomorrow morning where we will welcome and help more than 2,000 of our residential students and their parents unpack their cars and relocate to their new campus homes. We will start at 9 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m.
Looking back at last year it is best to say that "a lot of things can happen in the course of one year." As a university, thanks to you and your efforts, we had one of our strongest and most productive years. During the course of the last academic year we graduated our largest, most diverse, and most successful graduating class in our 60-year history, with over 8,750 students receiving 9,225 degrees. Our graduating cohort last year places us among the nation's top 25 most productive universities and makes us the nation's 8th most productive university in graduating students from diverse backgrounds. Even The Chronicle of Higher Education was impressed enough with our entire campus commitment to student success that they featured us prominently on the cover of their weekly journal this past June. Our graduation improvements and efforts also were recognized nationally in the higher education publication Change Magazine last fall.
Four years ago we asked that you help us make this a top campus priority and you did, so I would like to use this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your dedicated work and effort on this most critical endeavor. Today, unlike any time in the history of American higher education, it has never been more important for our students to finish what they start. From their lifelong earnings capacity to career satisfaction, and from health care to their commitment to global engagement and understanding, students today must graduate because the alternative has never been worse. The Economist put it best when asking the question whether Horatio Alger still existed in America and stated that "Horatio still exists, but he has to go to college first."
On the construction front, last year we were able to use a variety of specific funding sources to significantly improve our campus facilities including breaking ground on our first $75 million Student Recreation and Wellness Center scheduled to opened next August. At this time we anticipate the center will draw nearly 4,000 students, faculty and staff per day. We also have completely renovated and opened our first new student residential hall in over 22 years, the Residential Learning College on Pacific Coast Highway which contains 550 new student and faculty residential places, computing labs and additional classrooms. I would like to especially thank Michael Gardner, David Salazar and their excellent team of people in Facilities for getting this new Residential College ready for our students in time for this academic year.
We also had the unique opportunity to break ground once "again" on our new and badly needed $110 million Hall of Science after the state of California shut down the project for three months because it ran out of money. Judging by experiences of the past with Sacramento, we just hope that we will not have to experience a third groundbreaking in the coming year.
Additionally, within the next couple of weeks we will begin construction on our new $5 million School of Nursing facility which will be built with a combination of special state nursing incentive improvement funds and private contributions.
Despite the worst economic crisis to face this nation since "The Great Depression," our Development, University Relations and Alumni Association staff successfully raised $32 million, which represents our second largest fundraising year in our university's 60-year history and falls only $2 million shy of our overall record which we recorded two years ago. In fact, last night we had the opportunity to honor many of our largest contributors at a special "60th Anniversary Celebration" in the Daniel Recital Hall where we inaugurated our new Carillon Society and Carillon Awards. We are extremely grateful to all those generous individuals, friends and alumni who, despite these economic conditions, continued to support our students, faculty and university mission.
I am also pleased to recognize that our Intercollegiate Athletic Program not only won the Commissioner's Cup that is given to the most athletically successful program in the Big West Conference, but also was one of only four public universities in California to have every one of our 18 athletic teams meet the NCAA's Academic Progress Ratings standard. This measures a team's progress toward graduation and has become the "gold standard" academic measurement by the NCAA. Only UCLA, Berkeley, UC Davis and Long Beach State can make this claim.
Furthermore, thanks to the ongoing work of hundreds of faculty and staff, we made great strides in our 10-year university-wide reaccreditation effort which is approaching its final stages this year.
Finally, I would also like to commend Michael Carbuto and our Student Health Center professionals and others who worked under very difficult conditions during the H1N1 scare last spring. Their quick work and expertise played a critical role in the containment of this flu for our campus community. Unfortunately, we are not out of the woods on this issue since the primary flu season is just around the corner, but it is reassuring to know that our student health staff is prepared and experienced and will be communicating ways to stay flu free and healthy this upcoming year. Michael and his staff also insisted that I tell all of you "to please keep washing your hands and that it does not really count unless you wash them long enough to sing the Happy Birthday song twice."
While our university set new milestones in graduating students, ranking nationally, student applications, and building new facilities, this past year the world in which we live took a shocking economic "nose dive." As you are well aware, since we gathered here last year at this venue, many things have changed. One year ago Lehman Brothers, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Freddie and Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, General Motors, and over 110 other banking institutions were perceived as corporate models of capitalistic success. Beginning with the bankruptcy on Lehman Brothers just two weeks after we met, our nation, and subsequently nations throughout the world, witnessed how the Hobbesian "state of nature" driven by extreme greed and avarice can negatively impact everyone. Adam Smith, Alan Greenspan and the University of Chicago "School of Economic Thought" all underestimated the true depths of self-interest while also underestimating the role of good government. As the great economist and Noble Laureate Paul Samuelson stated in New Perspectives Quarterly earlier this year, "Today we see how utterly mistaken the Milton Friedman notion was that a market system can regulate itself. We now see how silly the Ronald Reagan slogan was 'that government is the problem, not the solution.'"
However, one long term and potentially positive outcome of this financial collapse is the restoration of the value of the public sector and the role of government in balancing those that "have" versus those that "have not." Ultimately, I believe that this rebirth of Keynesian economic ideals might prove very useful for us and others in public education further down the road and in the decades to come.
Furthermore, as we all know far too well, higher education has not been immune from these developments either. At this time last year, Harvard's investment managers frequently "made the rounds" lecturing other educational leaders on new investment strategies. These same individuals are no longer at Harvard, which has seen an overall decline in investment assets from $38 billion to $17 billion. Other universities throughout the nation have seen their fund reserves drastically reduced and their budgets sliced also.
In the midst of this national fiscal collapse, many hidden practices were exposed or came to light. Unfortunately for us, what came to light was the magnitude of how truly dysfunctional our state government is in California. While doing its best to conceal a $15 billion to $20 billion state deficit annually, recent economic declines and bad state decisions forced our state deficit to an unprecedented $42 billion. After all the gimmicks were tried and shell games were played, those of us who work in the public sector took the brunt of the decisions passed this summer, particularly those of us in public education.
While hiding behind the theme of eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" in state government, our state legislature decided that prisons were more important than higher education. And our students and children turned out to be the biggest losers in this fiscal debacle. As a guidepost for human development I certainly would never consider investments in students and the children of any state as "waste, fraud and abuse."
Due to these draconian decisions, and unlike many previous summers, these summer months have proven to be a very difficult period for our campus community and other public educators throughout California. While many of you were preparing for this academic year, and despite the recent successes experienced by our campus, Sacramento handed our university and all of public higher education the most severe single year budget cut in our 60-year history.
For our university, $42 million was yanked out of our state budget one month into this academic year. This represents 21 percent of our entire state appropriation. In fact, overnight we went from receiving nearly 40 percent of our total revenues from the state of California, to 29 percent. Overnight we went from being a state supported university to only a state assisted university. What's next, being simply a state located university, or even worse, only a state harassed university?
To put this more concretely, the state essentially ripped all state funding away from 7,000 of our students here at Cal State Long Beach and from 95,000 students in the Cal State University system. In per student terms, our state appropriation per student dropped from around the national average at approximately $6,400 per FTE to $5,137, a loss of nearly $1,300 per student. This places us $1,000 lower per student than the lowest point in the last decade, which was $6,186 per student in 2004-2005. Furthermore, having deep roots in Kentucky and Florida, I can no longer make jokes about them due to these cuts. This reduction places our per student state appropriation and the average per student state appropriation for the CSU below other states including Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, New Mexico and even Mississippi. This comparison does not even factor in state "tax capacity" or state "tax effort" which includes in the calculation the actual wealth of the state. If measured by "tax effort" to support higher education, California falls much further behind those states just mentioned which are much poorer and have much less fiscal capacity.
This has all occurred while at the same time California spends more to fund programs for prisoners than any state in the nation except Michigan.
For a state that expects to be the best in everything, California needs a major wakeup call, and even at the very least, should try to emulate a state like North Carolina which has done a much better job balancing public support and higher education demand.
Furthermore, what worries me most at the moment is how the federal stimulus "state stabilization" funds are being used. These funds were supposed to offset some of the cuts in state funding to public education. Unfortunately, one could argue that by supplanting over a billion dollars in recurring state appropriated funds with nonrecurring federal stabilization funds to the CSU and UC, the actual state funding cut is much higher than the obvious 21 percent reduction. Instead, the actual state budget reduction falls in the range of 40 percent to 45 percent if the nonrecurring stimulus funds are not replaced within the upcoming fiscal years. If these funds are not replaced in California, it is conceivable that nearly half of all the state budget reductions were concealed or masked by the substitution of one-time federal, nonrecurring monies.
Unfortunately, the magnitude of this cut is so severe that we have had to make many difficult decisions and take many unprecedented actions this spring and summer. First, I would like to thank all our faculty and staff for supporting the two-day per month furloughs and state budget closure days instead of the more draconian layoff plans. By opting for furloughs we have saved hundreds of faculty and staff jobs and our campus alone saved 2,200 courses for our students. Nobody likes having their salaries reduced by 10 percent but I firmly believe that the other alternative was far worse for so many. Second, we have been forced to freeze all non-essential travel and hiring. This decision went into effect last spring as you already know. Third, we have had to reduce our enrollment to our actual targeted funding level. This means that instead of the 38,000-plus students that we had last fall, we are starting this fall with 35,800, reflecting a decline of 1,100 less freshmen and another 1,100 less transfer students. For 2010-2011 we will be forced to reduce even more, further depriving quality higher education opportunities. This is the measurable result of the state not funding this university and the CSU system.
Fourth, accompanying these enrollment cuts we have been compelled to reduce hundreds of class offerings and the additional faculty lecturers needed to teach these classes in order to generate essential cost savings. Fifth, we have closed spring admission which normally brings in around 900 additional qualified students. Sixth, we have been forced to cut or eliminate nearly 70 staff positions, including many MPP positions, over the last six months in virtually every administrative unit on campus. Seventh, we continue to seek greater efficiencies through energy savings, data server consolidations and many other campuses services. In fact, we have even agreed to suspend a number of popular campus-wide activities because of cost savings until we get through this difficult period including suspending our spring Kaleidoscope and Open House, the University 100 program, and this year's President's Forum on International Human Rights. We even significantly cut the cost of this Convocation by not printing programs, and only placing the Academic Affairs Annual Report online for the first time.
Finally, in attempting to ameliorate this drastic loss of state funding, the CSU Trustees raised the CSU student fee an additional 20 percent over the summer in response to the mid-summer budget cut. This 20 percent increase actually only generates about 25 percent of the necessary funds to offset the total $42 million cut. To offset the entire cut with student fees would require a 100 percent fee increase for all students.
There really is not a good time to ever raise student fees. However, despite California's dysfunctional governance and fiscal planning which have forced us to pursue such regressive measures, there is some good news that I would like to share with you. The federal government has been responsive to the state funding problems and has "partially" mitigated the damage in state funding for our students. Under the encouragement of many higher education leaders last year, President Obama's administration made sure that higher education would not be left out when final determinations were made about the allocation of federal economic stimulus dollars. When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was signed into law, we all applauded its inclusion of higher education as an essential component of long term economic sustainability.
Within this massive legislation is the largest infusion of federal student aid funding since the creation of the original "GI Bill" after World War II. More specifically, however, over $30 billion was added for college grants and tuition tax credits, which nearly doubled the federal commitments in these areas. Of these resources, $17 billion was added to not only substantially increase actual grant awards but also to make sure that the grants would be available to more families with expanded income levels. Additionally, nearly $14 billion was generated to boost federal tuition tax credits from $1,000 and $1,500 to $2,500, and for all families earning up to $180,000 annually. This includes most of our students and families, and especially most of our middle income families who traditionally do not have access to federal student aid other than subsidized and unsubsidized loan assistance.
Furthermore, despite the attempt to eliminate the Cal Grant program this past year, California students receiving Cal Grant A or B funding will receive full funding which covers the summer fee increase adopted by the CSU Board of Trustees in July. For CSULB students this means $2.2 million more than last year's funding will be granted to our Cal Grant B student recipients and $1.2 million more than last year's funding will be received by Cal Grant A students. This increase alone will have a positive impact for nearly 4,000 CSULB students.
In fact, in aggregate this year, the new student fees have generated over $16 million in revenues for our campus, while at the same time our students acquired $13 million more federal aid awards than last year, and $3.5 million more in Cal Grant funding for a total of $16.5 million more in student aid. This does not even factor in the $2,500 refundable tuition tax credit that will be taken by our students and families beginning this April.
As you can see, thanks to Washington, our students are not as bad off as the actions of the state would have left them. However, the federal assistance simply helps to offset a small portion of the total state funding cut from our overall university budget.
As we move into the planning phases for 2010-2011, I want to reassure you that we will continue the strong and much envied tradition of shared governance on our campus. By working together through our Resource Planning Process (RPP), the Academic Senate, Staff Council, ASI, and many other areas of campus, I believe that we will reach better decisions while developing more productive strategies. We all benefit and our institution will be strengthened if we all work together during this period of economic uncertainty.
In conclusion, I would like to thank you again for your commitment to our students and the civility you have shown to your fellow employees and colleagues. These are very difficult and unprecedented times for California, to say the least, and we are all feeling the pain throughout all of public education. In fact, under these circumstances it is very important not to forget about our public school colleagues and partners. As a father of three in our public schools I can attest that I have never seen so many portable buildings become permanent, class sizes this large, and so many schools built for only half the student populations that currently exist on their campuses. We must be willing to help them any way we can to get through these difficulties as well. Ultimately, our success is highly dependent on theirs.
I also would like to make you aware that as of August 1 a new GI Bill went into effect that is estimated to bring thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans to the nation's colleges and universities within the next year or two. Despite the inherent formulaic funding flaws in this new bill that we are currently working to rectify, most of these veterans certainly did not join the armed forces to "see the world." Instead, as many have told me personally, they joined the armed forces "to go to college." Currently, we already have 473 recent veterans within our student body and this will no doubt increase rapidly because of the new GI Bill. They need our help and certainly deserve our support to help "change their lives."
It is because of your work and our mission that we have developed a reputation for "changing lives." In data recently generated from Postsecondary Opportunity out of Okaloosa, Iowa, it is interesting to note that despite all the recent east coast front page headlines highlighting their professed generosity in institutional aid for lower income students by Ivy League universities, Cal State Long Beach, alone, educates 3,000 more lower-income students annually than the entire Ivy League combined. In fact, we educate more lower-income students than the University of Iowa, Missouri-Columbia, and North Carolina-Chapel Hill combined. Furthermore, for a second year in a row our graduates' average mid-career earnings are higher than the average mid-career earnings of graduates from schools including Iowa, Missouri-Columbia, and UNCCH. You can take great pride in knowing that we do "change lives" and provide great value-added educational impact to society. Maybe it's time that both our federal government and state legislatures start financing higher education based on true value-added educational impact, instead of the traditional formulas that reward high inefficiencies and high prices.
As we all know, the state of California faces the worst fiscal crisis of any state during a period where the nation plunged into its worst economic recession since "The Great Depression." It appears that our state has lost its vision and perspective of what its priorities should really be. What is at stake is the quality of life for all Californians. As a leading university we have an obligation to help lead the state back on the right path with a new vision for California. As Thomas Friedman recently suggested, "Now is the time to get beyond simply thinking of economic recovery, and focusing instead on returning to economic prosperity." We can and should be leaders in determining what kind of prosperity the future requires. Will it be, as it was previously, extreme prosperity for the select few or prosperity for the common good of all? When we emerge from this fiscal crisis we must emerge a much smarter state, a much wiser university, and a much more advanced nation. It was Senator Ted Kennedy who pointed out in a debate on the floor of the U.S. Senate five years ago that "for the cost of two years of being in Iraq, we could have completely rebuilt every school in America."
We must use our tools, which are teaching, research, and public service, to reform California's priorities and to build a much smarter planet. As we witnessed last year, many things can happen in the course of one year. As one of the nation's best public universities we need to drive these developments instead of falling victim to them.
Thank you for your dedication to our students, to Cal State Long Beach, and for your commitment to public education. Thank you for your kind attention and patience today.
And Go Beach!
F. King Alexander


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So many people have poured into Broward County's hurricane shelters that most were filled to capacity Friday evening, prompting the county to open five new shelters at about 6 p.m.
Two pet-friendly shelters also filled up and Broward Mayor Barbara Sharief announced early Friday evening that a third shelter would open at 8:30 p.m.
The capacity totals 12,060 at the 14 shelters that opened Thursday at noon. By 7 p.m. the shelter population was 10,422. The new shelters will bring Broward's total capacity to 18,500, Sharief said.
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Camel Punch needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Camel Punch
We are a new web development company based in Brighton, UK. We want to show that we're not afraid of controversy and are a creative bunch of folks.
Our clients include the BBC and several small businesses around Brighton and London.
We are interested in attracting clients with a sense of humour. As we're mainly a business-to-business company, an eye catching logo is important as a lot of web development company logos are pretty dull. Especially those that say "... Solutions"!
We require a logo for our company that is simple and humorous. It must also be reproducible in black and white. The most important thing is that the logo is creative and surprising.
The logo must clearly display the text "Camel Punch".
The name "Camel Punch" is inspired by the film Conan The Barbarian, in particular the scene where Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) punches a Camel out cold. You should think about incorporating this into the design if you can. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7tOWoDVQLU
Please explore synonyms for the theme - Punch and Judy (with a camel?) would be awesome especially as Brighton is by the seaside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy
We don't want a bog-standard subtle-gradient and drop-shadowed / reflected Web 2.0 logo, unless it's *really* good.
Current site is http://www.camelpunch.com/ to give you an idea of content (it's going to change dramatically once we get this logo sorted).
We require the finished design in Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator format. It must be entirely your own work!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Fighting HIV/AIDS in Thailand: can distributing clean needles ever be as easy as giving out condoms?
Available in: Français, ภาษาไทย
When I think of HIV/AIDs, symbols pop into my mind: the red looped ribbon and the free condom. They're actually a good representation of what Thailand is doing best to combat the epidemic- massive information campaigns and the 100% Condom Program which saw the dramatic decline of HIV/AIDS among sex workers.
However, those symbols faded in my mind after I visited an old, impoverished part of Bangkok and met the people who currently are the most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS- the injection drug users.
HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases are transmitted when needles are shared. Under influence, many users are also likely to have unprotected sex. There are programs called 'harm reduction' where drug users are provided with clean needles, syringes, and condoms to avoid transmission. Condom distribution is easy but needles are another issue.


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Summer/Winterim Class Registration
Whether a current student at one of our Eastern Iowa Community Colleges or attending another college, summer and winterim classes are a great way to get ahead on the upcoming semester or catch up on a class you missed this past year.
To become a guest student:
First-time students with our colleges must first complete an Application for Admission .
Returning students who have taken classes within the last 365 days may go directly to the steps below.)
Complete the Registration and Course Transfer Agreement Form . Include the classes in which you wish to register, with the corresponding Class Title and Section Number.
If you do not already have that information, it is available in our searchable class schedule .
*We recommend that you check with your college to determine course transfer equivalency for our courses. Information for other colleges and universities is available on their websites.
Once you have been registered, contact the Business Office of the college you are attending for information about tuition and payment.
- Clinton Community College: 563-244-7123
- Muscatine Community College: 563-288-6123
- Scott Community College: 563-441-4123
Links to the bookstore websites for your textbooks.


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Alert 2007-43
Subject: Unauthorized Use of Bank Name
Date: July 24, 2007
Description: Cumberland Valley National Bank & Trust Company
Unauthorized Internet Use of the name of Cumberland Valley National Bank & Trust Company, East Bernstadt, KY
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Director, Office of Thrift Supervision; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel; and All Examining Personnel
The above-named bank has reported that their name is being used in an unauthorized manner on the www.a3card.com Web site. The A3Union group is not affiliated with Cumberland Valley National Bank. In addition, Cumberland Valley National Bank's debit cards are neither associated with A3Union nor Caribbean Software LTD.
Any information questions pertaining to this situation may be directed to Brenda Novell, Electronic Services Officer, Cumberland Valley National Bank & Trust Company, PO Box 709, London, KY 40743 or by telephone at (606) 878-7010.
Additional information concerning this matter that you believe should be brought to the attention of the OCC may be forwarded to:
E-mail: email@example.com
For additional information regarding other types of financial fraud, please visit the OCC's anti-fraud resource at: https://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/fraud-resources/index-fraud-resources.html.
Richard C. Stearns
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The Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency in Paris
The Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency has been established in memory of ArtSlant's Founder who passed away December 8th, 2012. Georgia was dedicated to supporting and investing in artists and writers, and she had a deep connection with the city of Paris. This residency, which offers artists and writers the opportunity to create work in Paris, has been created in Georgia's memory.
The goal of the Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency in Paris is to support and invest in artists and writers, to provide an opportunity for them to advance their work and explore and engage with the cultural landscape of Paris, to encourage experimentation and research, and to increase exposure of their work to an international audience.
The Residency is open to visual artists of all mediums, art writers and critics, 24 years or older. The selection will be made based on the merit of past work and the potential for future success, the ability to independently develop new work, and the proposed project's relevance to the city of Paris. Recipients will be required to maintain a blog, which will be posted on ArtSlant.
The Georgia Fee Artist/Writer Residency in Paris provides the recipient with lodging for 2 months in an apartment in Paris, travel to and from Paris, and a stipend to be used for studio space, materials, and other costs.
Residency applications are not currently being accepted.
Past Residents
About Georgia Fee
In Memory of Georgia Fee, ArtSlant Editor-in-Chief and CEO
GEOslant around the World: A Look at Georgia Fee's Legacy in Writing
GEOslant with Frances Guerin: Conversations with Georgia
GEOslant with Abraham Ritchie: The Generosity of Georgia Fee