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I recently posted about the results of the EDB Open Source Survey. It doesn't look like the raw data is going to be released. I was also reading about an O'reilly survey that costs $350 to see. Not that I am opposed to them making money, but I wanted to see the results and I think there are a lot people who feel the same. I have no idea if my survey is anything like O'reilly's.
Anyway, I have created a new survey. It has about 10 demographics questions asking who you are, where you are, what kind of role you have, etc. The rest are related to databases and open source. ALL data, and I mean all of the raw results, will be made available to anyone who wants to see it. I will also do some analysis and I will make that data available to any who want to see that.
All questions on the survey are optional. Feel free to skip anything you are uncomfortable answering. On the survey I ask for an email address. That address is strictly to allow me to email you the results. When you complete the survey, you will be taken to a web page. After the survey is over, the results (as a link to a data file) will be posted on that page. If you would rather not share your email ID, leave that field blank and just bookmark the final page. You can check back occasionally and I will post when the data is available here. It's actually less work for me if you don't give me your email addess. ;-)
Also, I ask for a company name. I know some people aren't comfortable sharing that so the data will be masked before it is released. That will allow anyone analyzing the data to get an idea of how many people from the same company answered the survey but they will not know which company it is.
Privacy is important to me.
Please share this and let as many people as possible know about the survey. The more people who answer, the more valuable the results.
Click here to take the survey now. The survey was created with eSurveysPro.com, a free online survey software.
Thank you in advance.


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Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Functional Statements > Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OESE Immediate Office
Under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, the Immediate Office formulates policy and directs and coordinates the administration of programs for elementary and secondary education. The Assistant Secretary is assisted by Deputy Assistant Secretaries who provide oversight responsibilities for specific OESE programs and a Deputy Assistant Secretary who oversees OESE operations management and planning.
The Deputy Assistant Secretaries for Policy (i.e., Strategic Initiatives, Programs, and Early Learning) participate fully with the Assistant Secretary in providing leadership and day-to-day administration of OESE's nationwide elementary and secondary education programs.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Programs is also responsible for overseeing and coordinating the responsibilities of the Ambassador Fellows program and advises the Assistant Secretary on matters related to that unit.
School Ambassador Fellows and Teach to Lead programs
The school Ambassador Fellows and Teach to Lead programs, headed by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Strategic Programs, builds direct relationships with teachers, principals, and other educators across the country. This unit administers the Teaching Ambassador Fellows and Principal Ambassador Fellows programs of full-time teachers and principals in residence and part-time, practicing teachers and principals, all of whom inform the Department about the concerns of teachers and principals and serve as resources of information about the Department for the public. This team is responsible for a website designed to meet educators' needs, a newsletter and ongoing roundtables with teachers and principals, advising the Secretary and others on policy and issues of importance to teachers and principals, and reaching out to teacher organizations.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and Planning is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the responsibilities of the Management Support Unit and the Administrative Support Unit (Executive Office). The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and Planning advises the Assistant Secretary on matters related to these two units.
Management Support Unit
The Management Support Unit (MSU) is responsible for operations management. The unit services as the primary catalyst for developing and implementing effective management practices, continuous improvement processes, and organizational capacity building to align and implement OESE's Annual Program Performance Plan in accordance with the Department's Strategic Plan. An Organizational Performance Officer, who reports to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and Planning, directs the MSU.
In performing its responsibilities, the MSU conducts the following functions:
- Planning
Coordinates a yearly planning process with the Assistant Secretary and programs units in the development of OESE's Annual Program Performance Plan. Tracks individual grant program plans and informs the Assistant Secretary about mid-year progress, any need for revision of plans, and end-of-year accomplishments.
- Budget & Resource Allocation
Prepares OESE's annual program and administrative budget requests to reflect the aims of the Administration and the objectives of the Assistant Secretary based upon program office input for transmission to the Budget Service (BS). Establishes and manages staffing allocations and position ceilings.
- Organizational Performance
Coordinates OESE's analyses of critical indicators to identify and report on current performance levels; measures progress in meeting organizational goals; and determines whether changes in grant program administration and/or operations management are warranted.
- Continuous Improvement/Innovation
Provides leadership in designing, developing, and assessing alternative management practices that lead to productivity gains, employee engagement, service delivery innovations, and performance accountability. Analyzes stakeholder requirements, strategic options, and research results, and coordinates with other OESE program units to integrate findings into OESE's overall operations management framework.
- Knowledge and Data Management
Develops an analytic agenda that facilitates and guides the collection, organization, interpretation, reporting, and use of data and other information from external and internal sources to inform policy analyses, program performance reporting, organizational performance reporting, operations analyses, and post implementation learning. Prepares analytic reports in response to congressional mandates and/or special requests from the Assistant Secretary or Deputy Assistant Secretaries.
- Human Capital Management
Performs management evaluations, manpower utilization, and organizational planning studies. Develops and implements a comprehensive staff on-boarding, training, and professional development program for strategic employee competency gaps. Identifies key issues and topics to be addressed, designs strategies for specific staff groups as well as all staff, and identifies and secures trainers and presenters.
- Grant Administration
Establishes a standard review and decision-making system for key grant and contract matters, prior to award, which permits the Assistant Secretary to make informed program decisions. Facilitates the development and review of Annual Spending Plans. Guides, in coordination with the Program Offices, the clearance of rules and regulations, Federal Register notices, grant program announcements, grant competition technical review plans, grant slates, monitoring plans, and risk assessments; and assists in preparing appropriate Information Collection packages. Offers training and technical assistance to OESE program office staff on the use of Departmental grants systems, policies, and procedures. Develops and updates generic forms and templates that OESE program office staff can download and customize. Coordinates with the Departmental Grants Policy and Oversight Staff to ensure consistency in grants and contracts policies across OESE and maintains the OESE grants procedures manual. Acts as OESE liaison in the Departmental regulatory agenda process. Develops the OESE monitoring plan and prepares an annual report on its implementation. Develops and maintains, in codified form, a policy precedent file of decisions relating to OESE grant program activities.
- Audit Resolution
Coordinates the review and approval of audit findings assigned to OESE for resolution. Improves the capacity of OESE to implement an efficient audit resolution process.
- Audit Liaison
Serves as OESE's point of contact and liaison with the program offices, OGC, OIG, and OCFO/PAG on the processing of audits. Maintains records and tracking system on all OESE audits. Develops and submits periodic reports on audit activities.
- Communications
Develops a variety of materials, publications, and other vehicles for internal communications to ensure OESE staffs are kept apprised of OESE initiatives, priorities, and accomplishments. Ensures that OESE's material on the Internal SharePoint Collaboration site is substantive and up-to-date. As requested, Provides support services to meet external communication needs for the Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretaries, with writing and editing of speeches, multi-media presentations, documents, electronic publishing, and centralized OESE mailing lists.
- Scheduling
Develops a master calendar that assures coordination of critical grant administration and operation management activities. Tracks grant and contract administration timelines.
Executive Office
The Executive Office (EO), headed by an Executive Officer, reports to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and Planning. This unit coordinates and executes all internal administrative matters and controls relating to OESE in areas such as budget formulation, grant and contracts, personnel, small purchase procurement, FOIA, travel, asset management (including property and telecommunications), space alterations, and support services. This unit also provides the administrative support services listed below to the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA).
In performing its responsibilities, the Unit conducts the following functions:
- Coordination
Serves as OESE point of contact and coordinates with OCFO, OCIO, OM, OGC, and OPEPD/BS on all administrative policies and procedures.
- Internal Controls
Establishes and maintains systems of internal management and financial control for OESE.
- Budget Formulation
Assists with the formulation of the program and administrative budgets for OESE by preparing and submitting the necessary information and materials.
- Budget Execution
Processes documents related to obligation of program and administrative funds. Approves and processes fiscal management documents and maintains appropriate fiscal records to insure against over-obligation of funds.
- Personnel
Manages and coordinates personnel management activities for OESE including recruitment, employee development, performance appraisal systems, retention, payroll and leave, performance awards and recognition, and workforce planning. Provides advice on labor relations matters, including grievances, employee discipline, and remedial actions. Assists in resolving grievances. Develops and monitors equal employment opportunity programs and services. Provides guidance to supervisors on personnel regulations and policies. Establishes reporting systems and monitors personnel matters in all OESE components.
- Organizational Control
Reviews, analyzes, and prepares reorganization proposals for OESE and monitors their approval through the established approval process. Prepares delegations of authority for OESE and coordinates the delegation process.
- Obligation of Grants and Contracts
Establishes and monitors the annual schedule of grant and contract activities (acquisition plan) for OESE. Coordinates the commitment and obligation of grant awards and contracts. Rolls over prior year data and prepares and mails notices of due date(s).
Monitors the drawdown of grants funds. Provides technical assistance or guidance regarding grants and contracts management and the G-5 system to assure adherence to policies and procedures. Maintains a system for tracking grant portfolio funds through recording and monitoring obligating documents and reviewing and analyzing financial reports.
- Communications
Controls correspondence, documents receipt of all mail addressed to the Assistant Secretary or referred by the Secretary and determines if a response is required, assigns responsibility for preparing a response, and sets deadlines for completion of replies.
Tracks inquiries to determine trends and issues of concern to OESE's various customers and constituencies. Coordinates the clearance of documents to assure full and appropriate OESE staff participation in decisions and serves as initial liaison and contact point with the Executive Secretariat. Provides support services to meet external communication needs for the Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretaries, with writing and editing of speeches, multi-media presentations, documents, electronic publishing, and centralized OESE mailing lists. Develops a variety of materials, publications, and other vehicles for internal communications to ensure OESE staffs are kept apprised of OESE initiatives, priorities, and accomplishments. Ensures that OESE's material on the Internet and Department Intranet is substantive and up-to-date.
- Procurement
Manages purchase card program and other small purchase procurements.
- Travel
Manages the employee travel system. Provides guidance and advice to staff on travel regulations and policies.
Coordinates, reviews, and processes all data collection and Freedom of Information activities for OESE.
- Asset Management
Coordinates and monitors the development of the annual Information Technology (IT) budget plans, monitors and maintains IT security controls on allocated IT funds. Establishes and monitors the property control system for OESE, making periodic reports on the adequacy of operations, and makes recommendations for improvements.
- Facility Management
Maintains a system of space allocation, use, and control for all space assigned to OESE. Coordinates internal OESE physical moves.
- General Administrative Services
Establishes and manages a system of general administrative and support services to fulfill day-to-day needs of the Office of the Assistant Secretary.
- Records Management
Provides guidance and evaluates progress in meeting records management policies and procedures pertaining to OESE-administered programs.
- Continuity of Operations
Manages business continuity and emergency readiness plans.


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Thursday, Feb. 28
• Just in time for spring planting, the Buncombe Soil and Water Conservation will host its annual tree seedling sale at Jesse Israel and Sons Garden Center, 570 Brevard Road. Seedlings range from 25-75 cents. Sale runs through Saturday, March 2. Info: 250-4785.
• Buncombe Country Extension Master Gardeners offers insight into attracting bees and other pollinating insects with "Our Precious Pollinators: Bees and Beyond." Presented by Diane Almond at the Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston St. 6:30 p.m. Free. Info: 250-6486.
• UNCA music instructors will show off their chops during a faculty showcase at the university's Lipinsky Auditorium. $5/students free. Info: 251-6432.
Friday, March 1
• Dobra Tea, 78 N. Lexington Ave., will host "an infused experience of international tea, music and cultural outreach," to benefit LEAF International, featuring performances by Lisa Zahiyah, River Guerguerian, Chris Rosser and more. Free; donations appreciated. Info and schedule here.
• The Juniper Bends Reading Series, a "quarterly literary reading series seeking to create a space for hard-working local writers to share their work with the world," continues this weekend at Downtown Books and News, 67 N. Lexington Ave., featuring readings by Rachel Howard, Caleb Beissert, Laura Patterson and A.K. Benninghofen. 7 p.m. Free to attend; wine by donation. Info: firstname.lastname@example.com.
• Harvest Records hosts an opening reception for its latest art exhibition, Swish and Fade, multiple exposure photographs by local artist Samantha Carter. The opening will include refreshments and a collection of Carter's pottery for sale. 415 Haywood Road. 7 p.m. Free.
• From a press release, "Beautiful Possibility is a traveling exhibition and research project by Alison Pebworth that takes the prototype of the 19th century American traveling show as inspiration for engaging others about what it means to be American. … Drawing upon the nostalgic allure of the circus and Wild West show, itinerant explorers and Chauttauqua lecturers, Pebworth travels with an exhibition of ten painted narrative banners that mix eras and integrate obscure and popular American figures and myths to make history laden comments on contemporary culture." The Beautiful Possibility Tour stops in Asheville at The DryGoods Shop, 474 Haywood Road. 7-9 p.m.
Saturday, March 2
• Penland School of Crafts, "a national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives," invites the public to an afternoon of hands-on workshops and demonstrations in clay, glass, iron, metals, textiles and more during an open house event in its renowned studios. 67 Doras Trail, Penland. 1-5 p.m. Free.
• Tired of rock bands and electronic dance shows? Need a break from bluegrass and old-time? Join the Blue Ridge Orchestra as it performs classic selections by Bizet and Beethoven at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 789 Merrimon Ave. Free. More info here.
• "We call it 'chicken-fried gospel soul,'" begins The Carpenter Ants' bio. "Lots of feel-good harmonies and a solid groove. Together for nearly 25 years, the band has played throughout the South Atlantic Region, twice toured Moscow, and joined the Rev. Jesse Jackson for a 10-city tour." Catch the Charleston-based quartet during an early show at Jack of the Wood, 95 Patton Ave. 5 p.m. Free.
Sunday, March 3
• Looking for love? Luckily, you're not alone. Asheville Professional Singles will host a singles meet and greet, ages 25-45, featuring games and a bonfire, at The Bywater, 796 Riverside Drive. 7-10 p.m. Free.


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Cornell and Technion to Invigorate Tech Startups with New NYC Campus
Above: NYC Tech Campus rendering
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that Cornell University, in partnership with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, has been selected to build a new graduate engineering school on an 11-acre site at Roosevelt Island. Bloomberg aims to make New York City "the world's leading city in technological innovation."
Bloomberg said the two schools were picked out of seven applications from consortiums of multiple schools as part of the city's applied sciences initiative. They were selected based on their plans for the site, economic impact, and speed of development. The new campus, which will be run as a joint venture by the two universities, is expected to eventually host 2,000 graduate students and 300 faculty members. (The selection of the Cornell-Technion group wasn't a surprise, as Stanford University dropped out of the running on Friday, meanwhile Cornell announced it had received a $350 million donation to help build the new campus.)
The new school plans to start operation off-site next year. The first phase of the development will be completed in 2017, with 300 students and 70 faculty members on the campus in 2018. Bloomberg said the project will create up to 20,000 construction jobs and up to 8,000 permanent jobs. He expects that over the next three decades, it will spawn 600 new companies, which will result in 30,000 new jobs.
Technion President Peretz Lavie said the new facility, known as the NYC Tech Campus, is "not an extension of the Technion or Cornell, but something new." It will be built around the concept of applied sciences and based on various hubs including Connecting Media, Healthier Life, and Built Environment—all of which are in turn based on computer science, electrical engineering, information sciences, economics, and business.
The future belongs not to technology for its own sake, but rather technology in the service of business and industry, explained Cornell President David J. Skorton. He discussed the sustainable campus planned for the site.
Above: Technion President Peretz Lavie, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton
Bloomberg said three other schools—New York University, Columbia University, and Carnegie Mellon University—remain in negotiations to build new high-tech facilities as part of the Applied Sciences Initiative. These facilities would be built in other locations in the city.
Bloomberg called the plan a "game-changer," and said the push for more applied sciences in the city would "prime the economic pump for generations to come." A university has the power to be "a magnet for economic innovation and growth," Bloomberg said, citing the influence of land-grant colleges such as Cornell in the 19th century. To prove the point, he called up Tumblr founder David Karp, who confirmed the difficulty of recruiting talented engineers.
Obviously, we won't know how successful this plan is for many years, but I'm always a fan of higher education, and in particular, more science and engineering students. (Full disclosure: I've long been a supporter of the Technion.) One of the best parts of the plan is a commitment to work with the public schools on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. Whether in New York, or indeed, anywhere in the country, improved technology education can only help.


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thoughts on faith.
April 01, 2012
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I loved this and it's such great encouragement. You described summer smells so perfectly on your little one. I can't wait for that this summer with mine =)ReplyDelete
- Sarah
A Girl In Transit
what a precious prayer. And I am at a similar place in my faith. Although I grew up in a Christian home, it wasn't until I was married and more on my own that my faith became my own. And not until some hard struggles in the last year or so am I really learning what it is like to lean on the Lord.ReplyDelete
Yes yes and yes.... He is up to something sweet friend. Something good. Something big. :) You bless me!!! Love you!ReplyDelete
(vanillatulip Ash;) )
good grief, that ruffle butt little lady....killin me! :)ReplyDelete
Oh... I just love your blog and the encouragement it gives. I'm at a place of struggling with the faith...trying to figure out what I believe but mostly trying to figure out how to stand up for it. And your kids...so precious. Love Aiden's prayer...so sweet and child like.ReplyDelete
Oh Casey, what a sweet sweet prayer. There isn't a feeling in the world BETTER and more fulfilling than when you witness your little ones wanting to love on the Lord like that. That feeling you get...when you've felt that...there isn't anyone or anything that can tell you it isn't TRUE is there? I am a newer reader of yours and I just want you to know I look forward to your encouragement each day. Your family is just beautiful! God Bless girl!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing this friend! Don't ever let anything hold you back!ReplyDelete
Love this post. As always, it is beautifully written and packed with encouragement and love. Thank you for sharing these thoughts, you lift me up so often. And for that I will always be grateful.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM
I love the way you capture your children on film. It's a beautiful thing. Your words are very special Casey!!ReplyDelete
I always look forward to your posts - always. You are such a breath of fresh air. Is it me, or does Aiden look just like his dad when he has that bandanna on his head? He does!!! Even the way he stands!
Huge Congratulations to Chris, I was praying for a Win on his Inink Film. To be recognized and receive not one, but four awards is such an accomplishment. Next up: The Academy Awards. I just know it. Keep pushing forward and keep your unique creative vision, you can DO this!
Ya'll have a great week ahead!
Your faith is amazing because you live it. And I don't mean you're a perfect human being who never makes mistakes and who doesn't have fault. You live it with the way you love. You GLOW with it, you shine.
I don't attend church anymore, but I remember one day. A girl got on the stage and she was just... eluding SOMETHING. I prayed right then and there that she and I would be friends, and we DID end up friends.
She didn't go around preaching words and trying to evangelize. She naturally emitted Christ's love and that's what drew me to her. You do the same. It's a beautiful thing to see and part of the reason I love your blog so much. :)
Amen, sister! :)ReplyDelete
What a special post. For me it was just in the last few years while away at college that I had that moment. The moment of "ah, yes. I really believe what I said I did all these years". And your little one's prayer...I love that. When the 2 year old I babysit for prays it melts my heart :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful post Casey! Good for you to recognize and own your faith!ReplyDelete
I love how you describe a toddler girl's summer smell! My baby will be one year old next month and I can't wait to see for myself this summer what you're talking about! :)
all these photos just make me smile! you have such a beautiful family and I can't get over how adorable Ainsleigh's suit is!ReplyDelete
Beautifully said. Thanks for writing this. You're a wonderful wife, mother and blogger! Your life is a testimony to God's love, grace and humility. Keep it up!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM
Awww...what gorgeous pics. You're so fabulous! Love the way that you write...it just draws me in and makes me yearn for more.ReplyDelete
Beautifully done.
Tami xo
This is a beautifully written post. And a wonderful reminder as I approach Good Friday...remembering what He's done for me and who I am in Him.ReplyDelete
This is a beautifully written post. And a wonderful reminder as I approach Good Friday...remembering what He's done for me and who I am in Him.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing and being so REAL about your faith. My husband and I are about to begin on a whole new journey, moving somewhere foreign, and we're our faith is going to be tested. I can be at rest knowing that Jesus is and always will be my Rock, my hiding place, and my everything. I always loving reading your blog, it's SO refreshing, Casey! Thanks for that.ReplyDelete
xo. Molly Beth
so so beautiful, my friend. who could have ever known that we would find our faith at the bottom of our deepest pits. if someone had warned me when i was a lot younger, i wouldn't have believed them anyways. back then i thought faith was all about me and what i made it to be. now, i can see that when i broke, faith held me. it made me who i am. not the other way around. good job sharing your story today :)ReplyDelete
praise jesus.ReplyDelete
for truth.
for grace.
for you.
enjoy your new week!
i couldn't agree with this post more casey. I truly believe that you have to choose what you believe despite your upbringing. And what a beautiful thing to see your children choosing it already :) My favorite part of the day is when our little guy says his prayers too - so sweet and innocent.ReplyDelete
How sweet is your little baby's prayer! I find it so funny that in struggle we notice we need God and the realization of our faith most. When we're surrounded by abundance, privelege and grace, we seem to be least likely to notice how very loved and blessed by God we really are. Such a shame. But it's those moments of struggle that make us appreciate those moments of grace, love and blessing. Thanks for sharing! :)ReplyDelete
I love when I come across a post that is so relatable to where I am at! This post is so much of where I am in my life. I too grew up in a christian home, and was saved when I was 11. THis past year, I feel like I am truly for the first time,truly seeking and understanding what a relationship with him means and how I have never really but my complete trust in him. I am a fearful person by nature and my worry sometimes overcomes the peace I know I could have if I would just let go. Thank you so much for your post. It has encouraged me!ReplyDelete
Your words ring so true to me. I went through the same experience; teachings becoming actual belief systems, things that I "knew" in theory becoming a reality in my life. Beautiful post!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2012 at 9:02 AM
I love this. Thanks for your honesty, and continually sharing your testimony.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful post! Your kids are absolutely precious and your little bump is just perfect!!!! xoxoReplyDelete
There really is nothing quite like hearing your child voice their prayers. Makes you feel like you'r doing something right! Bless sweet Aiden! Love that!!!!ReplyDelete
You're a good momma Casey! I'm certain they see Jesus in you!
love this casey. for some reason it can be hard to stand up for our faith at times, and we often can't even explain why. thank you for being bold. thank you for being who you are. thank you for inspiring me.ReplyDelete
Casey, I just want to say thank you. You have given me more strength than you know, I stumbled upon your blog one day and I was drawn to your personality, before long I was reading everyday. My heart is so drawn to you because I feel we are similar souls. I wish more than anything I could share a meal with you and learn from your wisdom, but for now reading your blog will have to do :) Just, thanks, you have been Jesus to me and I don't even know you.ReplyDelete
Aiden's prayer is so sweet! I love this post. I feel like I'm at that place you described where I'm figuring out what I believe. I can feel it in my heart-- but I haven't been able to put it into words.ReplyDelete
i love this. and you.ReplyDelete
oh aiden's prayer made me cry too.ReplyDelete
and i agree that i found my faith when my own heart was being broken by family circumstances...i had to choose to try to figure it out on my own or throw myself at the foot of the cross.
i chose the latter.
That is the sweetest little prayer! Talk about melt your heart!ReplyDelete
oh goodness, look at that little baby bump grow. so precious! and i can only image how perfect it must feel to see your own children see you as a good example and want to pray in your footsteps ;)ReplyDelete
xo TJ
Great perspective. My little ones are helping me be more faithful :). I love how they put their hands together to say their prayers at night. They have so many questions about God and I often find myself speechless.ReplyDelete
i love aiden's little note there! and your baby belly is adorbs!ReplyDelete
beautiful. my prayer is that someday i can lead my kids to follow God as well-- in the hard HARD times and the good GOOD times.ReplyDelete
<3 to you.
Sweet Casey,ReplyDelete
I love that Aiden is grateful for his toes. ;)
I love that you are so firm in your faith.
I have missed you this weekend while I was away on vacation in Idaho.
You are beautiful.
Your family is beautiful.
I can't wait to someday spend a day with you shopping, and then going to the park and letting our kids play their little hearts out. Oh and then putting them to sleep, painting our nails and watching a chick flick.
(just saying.)
Beautiful my friend! Thanks for your honesty - it is encouraging :) I totally agree - it is during hard seasons that we get the hidden gift of going deeper with God. Much love to you and the family xoxoReplyDelete
PS - Aiden's bit is THE most awesome thing!!
Aiden's note is so lovely.ReplyDelete
I need to keep faith at the moment--faith that this is the path I am supposed to be taking and that it will all be ok.
What a great post! What a wonderful feeling that your children are starting to yearn for prayer. It shows that you are leading by example. xoxo A-ReplyDelete
I resonate with this so much. Here in Spain my husband and I are always being asked questions by people who have grown up "Catholic," but don't actually know what they believe. It's so wonderful being able to speak from the heart about what we know of God because of our experiences with Him instead of what we've been told by someone else.ReplyDelete
I know...He truly became *mine* after I moved out, spent time in a quiet room thinking about Him. And then the hubby and little boy came along, and now He's *ours*...nothing more comforting. Thanks for sharing sweet Casey.ReplyDelete
Food for thought...thank you so much for sharing friend!ReplyDelete
You are the sweetest momma and have the most precious littles.ReplyDelete
Love you photography in these shots too!
found you through a friend (kelle). love your heart :)ReplyDelete


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I have quite a good stable internet connection who rarely ever fails
However, whenever I download torrents, I lose my internet connection in like 5-20 minutes.
When I get disconnected, it (almost always) still works fine on my roomates' desktop(with no wifi, so he's plugged right in the router), but not on either of our laptop running on the wifi.
What could cause that?


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Dunn, White Sox hand Boston's Lester first loss
Chicago, IL – Adam Dunn clubbed a three-run homer to help the Chicago White Sox hand Boston's Jon Lester his first loss of the season with a 6-4 win in the opener of a three-game set at U.S. Cellular Field.
Dylan Axelrod (2-3) tossed six strong innings for the White Sox, who snapped a two-game slide and won for the fifth time in their last seven games. Axelrod held the Red Sox to four hits, with the lone hiccup being a two-run homer by Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
Lester (6-1), meanwhile, was tagged for six runs -- five earned -- on seven hits over six frames. All six Chicago runs were scored with two outs.
"He still kept us in the game," Saltalamacchia said of his battery mate.
Boston had won five games in a row.
Down five runs at one point, the Red Sox closed the gap to 6-4 in the seventh. Matt Thornton relieved Axelrod and promptly walked the first two batters he faced. David Ortiz and Mike Napoli came around to score when Will Middlebrooks sent a one-out double off the wall in left field. Thornton settled down on the mound, recovering to retire Stephen Drew and Saltalamacchia.
Chicago's Jesse Crain pitched around a walk in the eighth, then Addison Reed overcame a leadoff single by Napoli in the ninth to earn his 15th save.
The White Sox jumped on Lester, building a 5-0 lead after two innings.
Lester retired the first two batters he faced in the opening frame before Alex Rios extended his career-best hitting streak to 15 games with a single. After a walk to Paul Konerko, Dunn crushed his 11th homer of the year, a smash to right field.
"It's nice to jump out to a lead and hold on to it," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.
The second inning began the same way, with the Boston left-hander getting two outs with relative ease. Tyler Greene, Alejandro De Aza and Alexei Ramirez then strung together three straight doubles that produced two runs.
Saltalamacchia put Boston on the board in the third, but Dayan Viciedo singled home Ramirez, who had reached on an error, to put Chicago up 6-2 in the fifth.
Game Notes
Lester was trying to become the first Red Sox left-handed starter to begin 7-0 since Roger Moret opened 10-0 in 1973 ... Boston right fielder Shane Victorino left in the sixth with left hamstring tightness ... Chicago had lost four of its previous five homes games ... Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a leadoff single in the fourth ... The Red Sox activated reliever Andrew Bailey from the 15-day disabled list. Bailey had been sidelined since late April with a right biceps strain. The club made room for Bailey by optioning pitcher Jose De La Torre to Triple-A Pawtucket after Sunday's game in Minnesota ... Boston went 6-2 against the White Sox last year.


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Htop Exclamation Mark Near Uptime In Output On Linux Server
The other day while troubleshooting an issue on a server I noticed something I hadn't ever noticed before which was an exclamation mark next to the uptime output from the htop command. After investigating and looking over the source I found that it is a bonus letting you know that your server has been up for a long time. Basically anything over 100 days of uptime will produce an exclamation mark next to the uptime reading. Below I show the sourcecode from the UptimeMeter.c file in the htop source as well as examples of how the htop uptime can vary depending on how long your server has actually been up.


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Trump Says Border Wall Would Be First Line Of Defense
During a trip to San Diego, California on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said a massive border wall between the U.S. and Mexico would be the "first line of defense" for the country.
"The fact is, if you don't have a wall system, it would be bedlam, I imagine," Trump told reporters during a brief stop near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump got an up-close look at several prototypes that were built in San Diego, for a massive 2,000-mile wall that would run along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. The president even told reporters about which wall he preferred be built.
"You have to have see-through. You have to know what's on the other side of the wall. And I mean, a preference is something like that, but you don't know what's on the other side of the wall."
The border wall prototypes stand around 30-feet tall, and are constructed out of concrete and steel. The walls foundations extend almost six feet into the ground.
A border wall that would stop the illegal flow of immigrants, gangs and drugs to the U.S. from pouring in was one of Trump's first campaign promises. He told voters while running that his administration would take the fight to the cartels who were smuggling drugs into the country. "And they have the cartels, and the cartels, we're fighting the cartels. We're fighting them hard. No one's ever fought them like we fought 'em," Trump said.
Trump says a country without a wall system, is not a country.
"If you don't have a wall system, we're not going to have a country. There's a lot of problems in Mexico... they have a lot of problems over there," Trump said.
Trump took the opportunity to blast California's recently passed sanctuary laws which prevent local law enforcement from assisting federal immigration agents with deportations.
"The smugglers, the traffickers, the gang members, they're all taking refuge. And I think a lot of people in California understand that, and a lot of people from a lot of other places understand that, and they don't want sanctuary cities."
The president also escalated the war of words with California's governor, Jerry Brown, calling him a 'nice guy that's failed the state.
"Brown has done a very poor job running California. They have the highest taxes in the United States, the place is totally out-of-control."
Trump's visit comes just days after his Justice Department sued to block California's sanctuary laws, that they say are putting the country at risk.
Preliminary estimates for a 2,000-mile wall have hit $20 billion dollars. Trump has insisted that Mexico will pay for the wall.


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In the wake of singles from Jeffrey Novak, Superchunk, Cian Nugent, Lower Plenty, Bits Of Shit, Royal Headache, Outer Spaces, Smartboys and Tony Molina, the final 3 7″'s of the 2013 'Singles Going Home Alone' series are shipping to subscribers shortly ;
Sleaford Mods – "Routine Dean" b/w "Pubic Hair Ltd"
Steve Gunn – "WIldwood" b/w "Worn Threads"
Coho Lips – "Less Of Everything" b/w "Lick Your Sore Chops"
The 13th / bonus single is in production and the band's identity will revealed shortly. If you're looking for a hint, they hail from the same region as the adopted home of last year's bonus artist and have several records (old and not-so-old) in the Matador catalog. If that's not setting it up for you on a tee, I don't know what is.
There's a handful of subscriptions still available at The Matador Store. SGHA is taking a year (decade?) off in 2014 while we fantasize about pressing plant capacity magically tripling.


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Set Up SAP Cloud Appliance Library Account and Install Preconfigured SAP Solution in Cloud
You will learn
- How to set up SAP Cloud Appliance Library account and then install preconfigured SAP solution in the cloud
In the end of this tutorial you'll install an SAP solution on AWS. This will take some time (about 30 minutes up to 1 hour).
Although SAP offers trial editions for free you will still have to cover the costs for running these trial editions on AWS!
Navigate to https://cal.sap.com/ and login using your SCN user. Accept the terms and conditions.
Switch to the Solutions tab and Search for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP and SAP BW 7.5 SP01 on SAP HANA SP10 [Developer Edition] and click the Try Now button. Accept the terms and conditions. [Note: If this solution is not available, try the versions closer to this one]
Navigate to the Accounts tab and create a CAL account by clicking on the Create Account link in the top-right corner.
On the first wizard page (Define General Properties) provide a Name for your account (e.g. SAP Cloud Platform Backend). Then, select Amazon Web Services as Cloud Provider. Also provide your AWS Access Key and Secret Key in the related input fields. Click on Next.
On the third wizard page (Select Account Users) you can maintain (additional) users for this account. Your user should be registered by default. Click on Review.
Review all the information and then click on Create.
Navigate back to the Solutions tab in the CAL cockpit and select again the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP and SAP BW 7.5 SP01 on SAP HANA SP10 [Developer Edition] entry in the list of solutions
Click the related Activate button, and afterwards the related Create Instance button.
On the first page of the Create Instance wizard you are asked to define the general properties of the to be created instance. Provide a Name for your instance (e.g. NW App Server 7.5 Public.) Your Account information should be filled in already as well as the default Region to be used. Keep everything as Default and enter the Password of your choice
Proceed by clicking Create.
Once you confirm the Create instance wizard dialog, the selected solution will be provisioned to your AWS account and from that moment on you are generating costs!. When you do this for the first time it may take up to 35 min to setup the solution. Note: AWS account generates costs
You'll be prompted to store and/or download the generated license key (PEM file).
Once the instance is up and running it will be listed under the Instances tab of the CAL cockpit. If you click on the link in the Instance Name column you can open up a pop-up window to take a look at (and edit) the individual settings. You can select Public Static IP Address if you want one. One of the most important information being displayed is the IP address of your instance.
Once the AWS instance has been started, you can connect to it and use the installed SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP. There is also a SAP HANA Cloud Connector installed and running on the AWS instance. You can use it for your on-premise extension scenarios in which you connect SAP Cloud Platform applications to the ABAP system on AWS.
Details how to connect and use the AWS image are described in this PDF document. We briefly summarize the most important points:
Connect to the AWS instance using a Remote Desktop Client (on Windows start e.g.
mstsc.exe). You can find the of your AWS front end instance by clicking on the instance name in your SAP Cloud Appliance Library account. Take the External IP of the front end instance and use the OS user Administrator with the master password you have specified before to log in with your remote desktop client.
Connect to the ABAP system on the AWS instance with SAP GUI, you can use the already installed SAP GUI on the AWS front end instance. Start the SAP Logon and logon to the preconfigured system with Username as DEVELOPER and your master password. (Server name:
abapci, System ID:
A4H) add an ABAP system with following properties:
|Field Name
|Application Server
|Instance Number
|System ID
|User name
|your master password
To use the SAP HANA Cloud Connector, enter the URL
https://abapci.dummy.nodomain:8443/and log on with user Administrator with the master password.
On the AWS front end instance, there is also an Eclipse Luna version installed and available on the desktop. The Eclipse instance is already prepared for SAP Cloud Platform and you can use it to develop SAP Cloud Platform applications.
Related Information
- Amazon Web Services
- SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL)
- Alternative AWS Deployment for SAP Trials provided as Virtual Appliance
- Virtual Private Cloud with VPN Access for SAP Trials provided as Virtual Appliance
- Getting Started with SAP NetWeaver 7.50 SP1 AS ABAP and SAP BW on SAP HANA SPS10 Developer Edition


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A health professional trained to evaluate and treat people who have conditions or injuries that limit their ability to move and do physical activities. Physical therapists use methods such as exercise, massage, hot packs, ice, and electrical stimulation to help strengthen muscles, relieve pain, and improve movement. They also teach exercises to help prevent injury and loss of motion.


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As President Donald Trump appears on the world stage at the G20 summit in Argentina, the cloud of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe hangs over Washington. Panelists discuss the latest reporting and what this week's developments mean for the ongoing investigation.
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Peter Chou, CEO of Taiwan smartphone company HTC, will on Monday launch what he hopes will be a major boost to both a backward tech sector in Myanmar, his country of birth, and to his company's share of one of the few untapped mobile markets: a phone that locals can use out of the box.
Until now, Chou says, Myanmarese users of mobile phones and computers must install fonts in their own language, a process that is cumbersome, often invalidates the device's warranty and has, he says, slowed innovation and the embrace of technology.
HTC has instead teamed up with a local distributor and a software developer to customize Google's Android operating system so its devices display local fonts and sport a dedicated and, Chou says, intuitive, Myanmar language onscreen keyboard.
"You don't have to spend two months to learn how to type it," Chou said in an interview ahead of the launch. "You just type it. We want to give people here a computing device they don't have to learn. They just try it, they just use it, they just get it."
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Myanmar IT experts say that while the country's alphabet is no more complex than some other Asian scripts, a failure to agree how to apply an international standard for language symbols called Unicode to existing versions of the computer font has made it difficult to bake the language into software.
As a result, web pages and apps will often be unreadable.
Big Challenges, Little Penetration
The issue of fonts may seem a basic one, but reflects the challenges Myanmar faces in catching up with its neighbors as it sheds decades of military control over politics and the economy. Myanmar has one of the lowest mobile penetration rates in the world, with only 3 percent of the population owning a phone in 2011, according to the World Bank. In neighboring Bangladesh, 56 percent of people have a mobile phone.
When IT enthusiasts met last year for a conference on the future of technology called Barcamp Yangon, much of the discussion revolved around such basic issues, participants said. With at least two competing types of font software available, disagreements remain.
(Read More: Japan's Finance Minister in Myanmar With Development Pledges)
The problem is worse on smartphones, says Soe Ngwe Ya, general manager of KMD, HTC's distribution partner for the new phones. In order to install such fonts on mobile devices users must first "root" the phone, effectively bypassing the manufacturer's controls on customizing the phone's operating system. That often invalidates any warranty. "It's a major issue," he says.
HTC also hopes it can claw back some ground from its biggest competitor in Android phones, Samsung Electronics, which has established a first mover advantage in Myanmar.
Samsung has at least two distributors for its handsets and its advertisements are visible around the capital. Soe says KMD will act as HTC's distributor, open a flagship store and service HTC users.
Chou, who was born in Myanmar but left to work and study in Taiwan more than 30 years ago, says that at least for now the Myanmar fonts and keyboard will only be available on HTC devices. He denied that this undermined his claims of contributing to his homeland.
"While sometimes you can be idealistic," he said, "the first thing you have to show the people is something to get excited about."


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Quiet please, just kidding: Walking up Lafayette Street yesterday in NoHo, I spotted this Heineken billboard still clinging to behind-the-scaffolding life from this year's USO. This spot is just blocks away from the 40 Great Jones, which hosted the Boast party earlier this fall, and the adidas store where I became besties with Justine. Bestines.
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Magid Abraham / comScore Voices:
Why Google's surprising paid click data are less surprising — James Lamberti, SVP of Search and Media at comScore, is a co-author of this post. — Earlier this week, comScore released its January 2008 qSearch paid click report, which showed a 7% sequential decline vs. December '07 …
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: CEO Magid Abraham: Long On Google, Short on comScore!
Charles Cooper / CNET News.com: Circling the wagons around Google
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Google CTR Down Due To Click Area Changes
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ News Blog: ComScore Weighs in on Google Click Volume Debacle Sparked by Its Data
David A. Utter / WebProNews: ComScore: Paid Click Drop Doesn't Doom Google
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: ComScore backtracks on numbers that tanked Google's shares
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks: ComScore says Google 'paid click' decline not actually bad news
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
ComScore: Weak Paid Clicks Reflect Google Policy Shifts
ComScore: Weak Paid Clicks Reflect Google Policy Shifts
Discussion: Geek Speaker and Digital Daily
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: You Guys Get a Phone Call From Google or Something?
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comscore on Comscore Google Disaster: No Big Deal
Comscore on Comscore Google Disaster: No Big Deal
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work and Tech Check with Jim Goldman
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman: Google Worries Might Be Exaggerated
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati To Launch Blogger Advertising Network — Through a variety of sources we've confirmed that Technorati is making plans for a major shift in its going forward strategy, and is also considering a number of corporate development transactions. — First, they've been pitching venture capitalists on another round of financing.
Discussion: One By One Media, The Last Podcast and Pro Blogging News
Jim Turner / One By One Media: Technorati Changing The Way It Does Business
Ed Sutherland / Pro Blogging News: Technorati To Launch Blog Ad Network?
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
IAC: Ready To Bail On Ask? — More on the impending shakeup at IAC's long-suffering Ask. An insider tells us that IAC is considering finally pulling the plug on Teoma, the engine that powers Ask's search, and just using Google: — There is indeed a big shakeup coming. A new Ask.
Discussion: Search Engine Watch Blog, Search Engine Land, HipMojo.com and Digital Daily
Deborah Richman / Search Engine Watch Blog: Would Ask be Ask? — If Ask dismantled its Teoma engine, would Ask still be Ask?
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: IAC Ready To Drop Ask.com Search Technology & Partner With Google?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Will Ask.com/Google Hookup Send Yahoo! in the Arms of Microsoft?
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: The Algorithm Collects Unemployment?
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Ask May Dump Teoma For Google, Layoff 100 People — Ask is rumored to be considering switching to Google for search and subsequently downsizing its engineering team. — According to Silicon Alley Insider, Ask may abandon or selling its Teoma search engine in favor of using Google for its search results.
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Analytics Guru and Webware.com
Marshall Sponder / The Analytics Guru: Ask.com getting rid of Teoma and moving to Google?
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com: ManagedQ: A visual search experiment that actually works
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
IAC: 100 Layoffs Coming At Ask.com; Search Deal With Google Possible
IAC: 100 Layoffs Coming At Ask.com; Search Deal With Google Possible
Discussion: Valleywag, CNET News.com and Good Morning Silicon Valley
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Layoff rumors stir the herd at Ask
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
News: iPhone/iPod SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit add-ons — iPhone/iPod SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit add-ons — According to several sources familiar with Apple's iPhone and iPod touch software development kit (SDK) plans, the company will use a March 6 event in Cupertino …
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: iPhone SDK Rumor: Apple policing App Distribution via iTunes
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: iPhone software development to be locked down by Apple?
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: No iPhone SDK Until June?
Chris Leckness / Mobility Site: iPhone/iPod SDK To Be Limiting... Oh Boy...
Saul Hansell / Bits: Will iPhone Developers Need Apple's Blessings?
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat: Roundup: iPhone SDK rumors, Bischof at Meritech, and did Wordpress slap Fox?
Ross Rubin / Out of the Box: Few surprises in iPhone SDK rumors
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter: The Best Web Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Rumors: iPhone SDK not ready for primetime?
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report: Apple planning on limiting SDK access?
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts: iLounge gets the deets on the iPhone SDK
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: Same old, same old control-freak Apple: they'll be "gatekeeper" …
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Rumor: Apple iPhone/iPod Touch SDK Event Details Emerge
Joel Johnson / Boing Boing Gadgets: Rumor: Apple Will Vet iPhone/Touch Applications
Source: Apple may not restrict free iPhone apps
Source: Apple may not restrict free iPhone apps
Discussion: MacRumors
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Should Google, Yahoo, Mahalo, etc. ban affiliate links? (or "Will the FTC ban undisclosed affiliate links for us all?") — "We wanted to make clear . . . if you're being paid, you should disclose that." — Mary K. Engle, FTC associate director for advertising practices quoted in the Washington Post
Discussion: Andy Beard and ReveNews
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Calacanis Wants to Ban Affiliate Links; What About Banning Employee Linking? — Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs 2.0 service Mahalo, has apparently left the world of pissing off SEO folk and is now pissing off affiliate folk. This time he wonders if the search engines (including Google …
Discussion: The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog: Should we ban unlabled affiliate links from Mahalo?
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
35 Ways to Stream Your Life — It's a pretty good bet that if you're not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you're probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out there …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Changing Way
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Live Streaming Bubble Bursts Before Being Blown Up?
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge: Wikileaks gets its domain name back — Updated at 1:42 p.m. PST. — SAN FRANCISCO—Wikileaks is getting its domain name back. — After spending 90 minutes or so hearing arguments from a raft of attorneys—two representing the Swiss bank that fought to get the site's plug pulled …
Discussion: Threat Level, Bits, LinuxInsider, p2pnet, Tynan on Technology and GigaLaw.com Daily News
David Kravets / Threat Level: Judge Backtracks: WikiLeaks Resumes U.S. Operations
Jonathan D. Glater / Bits: Judge Says Wikileaks Site Can Have Its Web Address Back
Doug Isenberg / GigaLaw.com Daily News: Judge May Revisit Order in Wikileaks Case
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Why the TED list is troubling — Chris Anderson, the organizer of the TED conference, has complained, not to me, not to my boss, but to my boss's boss about our publishing the complete list of his 1,198 attendees. Anderson — not to be confused with the Chris Anderson who edits Wired — finds it "troubling."
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Time Capsule Initial Verdict: Smooth Sailing, No Surprises — We've been fiddling with Time Capsule since it arrived this AM, and so far it works as billed, clean and easy. The star of the show is really the new AirPort Utility software, which now comes with some neat tricks for the network-phobic.
Nilay Patel / Engadget: Time Capsule first impressions
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Firefox 3 Performance Numbers — Moving on from the "let me use that API" conversation and only some real stuff, urandom (thanks for the comment) let us know about the Cybernet News article on Firefox 3 performance. — They are reporting that Firefox 3 is now faster than Safari 3 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni — Microsoft has been in acquisition discussions with email startup Xobni, we've confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users …
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Twittermeter: Measuring Buzz in the Twittersphere — There is a set of tools that we generally use to determine how popular something is on the web: Google Trends, Blogpulse Trend Search, Technorati, del.icio.us, various social networking sites, etc. — We can now add another source to that list …
Discussion: Mashable! and Changing Way
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Twitter Down; Sky is Blue


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So yeah, I know I've been going a little wild with the character requests as of late, but I promise this will be my last new thread on the topic for awhile. Thanks goes to Darkspecter for making me aware of this character, and macbee for scanning the images from the Brazilian comic.
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Recent Papers – PASPA
Recent papers spun off from our SCOTUS amicus brief have been published in the Stanford Law & Policy Review Online and the Villanova Law Review Online.
Amicus Brief – Christie, et al v. NCAA
I summarized the amicus brief I co-wrote and filed here.
Fall 2013 Update
Thank you for all the inquiries and applications in connection with the (up to) two PhD slots for Fall 2013. Both positions have been filled. Please see post below for details. When time permits, I will post details about potential Fall 2014 positions.
Funded Opportunity for PhD Student in "Sports Law Analytics"
Starting Fall 2013, I will be be able to sponsor 1-2 new PhD students here at Florida State University ("FSU"). New students studying under my supervision would be funded for at least three years (assuming reasonable progress each year), which includes a teaching appointment (undergraduate sports law course), a research/living stipend, a teaching/research assistant position, and tuition remission.
PhD programs in this field usually take 3-5 years. As such, it is a considerable investment in time and may carry with it significant opportunity costs.
The phrase "sports law analytics" is in quotes for a reason…there is no doctoral degree (that I am aware of) in such a topic. In my mind, "sports law analytics" is the application of quantitative methods to legal issues in the sports industry. The actual degree program here at FSU would result in a PhD in "sport management." However, like I did several years ago when I was a doctoral student at Indiana University, a PhD student studying under my supervision would take coursework that lends itself to being able to take a quantitative look at legal issues in sports. Graduates would be capable of publishing research in peer reviewed academic journals and law reviews. Papers included in my Google Scholar profile are illustrative.
The ideal candidate would fall under one or both of the following categories: (i) someone who is a graduate of an ABA-approved law school with a documented interest in sports law and some degree of statistical acumen/interest or (ii) someone who holds an undergraduate or graduate degree in math or statistics and can demonstrate an interest in sports law issues.
All candidates must be proficient in either Bluebook or APA. Experience with Stata and/or Excel is desirable.
The foregoing is not meant to be an exhaustive explanation of the PhD program or its component parts. If you are interested, please contact me for further details.
Sports Economics on Trial
Details on the upcoming panel can be found here.
New paper here.
Panel on The Impact of Sports Collective Bargaining on Labor Relations in Society
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EU Gambling
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Economics and Sports Violence/Aggression
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Daniele Gatti (conductor)
Hi Mark:
The 'Good Friday Music' rarely seems to me a well-advised 'bleeding chunk'
To be honest I've always preferred the purely orchestral version of the The 'Good Friday Music'. And I love the fact that Wagner himself was the one who arranged and published it for performance as a separate concert piece.
The 1976 recording with Eugen Jochum conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony is my favorite because it's uncut and lasts 12 minutes and 16 seconds.
Thanks for this. I thoroughly enjoyed this concert too. I notice he had six of the (eight) double basses raised up rather higher than usual; it did seem to give a bit more weight to the tone from where I was sitting (in the balcony). His prom of this symphony (with the RPO) (in 2002) was tremendous but this was even better.


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"Expert assessment of potential permafrost carbon feedback to climate change", Climatic Change, 2013.,
"Determining the riparian groundwater use within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area and the Sierra Vista Sub-Basin, Arizona", 2006.,
"Partitioning of evapotranspiration and its relation to carbon dioxide exchange in a Chihuahuan Desert shrubland", Hydrological Processes, vol. 20, pp. 3227 - 3243, 2006.,
"Multiyear riparian evapotranspiration and groundwater use for a semiarid watershed", vol. 72, pp. 1232 - 1246, 2008.,
"Observational Evidence of Recent Change in the Northern High-Latitude Environment", Climatic Change, vol. 46, pp. 159-207, 2000.,
"Comparison of model-produced active layer fields: Results for northern Alaska", vol. 112, p. F02S10, 2007.,
"Decadal variations of active-layer thickness in moisture-controlled landscapes, Barrow, Alaska", Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, vol. 115, p. G00I04, 2010.,
"Fluorescence spectroscopy studies of humic substance fractions isolated from permanently frozen sediments of Yakutian coastal lowlands", Geoderma, vol. 149, pp. 116-123, 2009.,
"Thermal state of permafrost in North America: a contribution to the international polar year", Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, vol. 21, pp. 117-135, 2010.,
"Using dynamical downscaling to close the gap between global change scenarios and local permafrost dynamics", Global and Planetary Change, vol. 56, pp. 203-214, 2007.,
"The role of snow cover in the warming of arctic permafrost", Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 30, p. -, 2003.,
"The deep permafrost carbon pool of the Yedoma region in Siberia and Alaska", Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, p. 2013GL058088, 2013.,
"Winter biological processes could help convert arctic tundra to shrubland", Bioscience, vol. 55, pp. 17-26, 2005.,
"Runoff Observations", in Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, First., Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011, p. 1254.,
"Runoff generation", in Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, First., Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011, p. 1254.,
"Spectral characterization of periglacial surfaces and geomorphological units in the Arctic Lena Delta using field spectrometry and remote sensing", Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 113, pp. 1220-1235, 2009.,
"Molecular investigations into a globally important carbon pool: permafrost-protected carbon in Alaskan soils", Global Change Biology, vol. 16, pp. 2543-2554, 2010.,
"Vegetation-soil-thaw-depth relationships along a low-arctic bioclimate gradient, Alaska: synthesis of information from the ATLAS studies", Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, vol. 14, pp. 103-123, 2003.,
"Arctic patterned-ground ecosystems: A synthesis of field studies and models along a North American Arctic Transect", Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, vol. 113, p. -, 2008.,
"Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index", Environmental Research Letters, vol. 4, p. -, 2009.,
Dalton Highway Field Trip Guide for the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost. Fairbanks: State of Alaska, 2009, p. 104.,
"Frost-boil ecosystems: Complex interactions between landforms, soils, vegetation and climate", PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES, vol. 15, pp. 171-188, 2004.,
"Thermokarst Lakes as a Source of Atmospheric CH4 During the Last Deglaciation", Science, vol. 318, pp. 633-636, 2007.,
"Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground", in Remote sensing of the Cryosphere, Wiley Blackwell, Submitted.,


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The Red Badge of Courage
An Episode of the American Civil WarBook - 1999
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What I liked about this novel is that, instead of focussing on military battles, it describes the array of feelings that a young soldier goes through in a war: excitement, boredom, fear, shame. It is only when the main character is forced to fight in order to survive that he stops having feelings (in other words, that he stops being a human) and becomes a killing machine. And this is what horrifies Stephen Crane about war.
This book was awful.
Loved it! The storytelling drew me in and had me reading till the end. Crane did a masterful job.
A deeply psychological novel of a young man who decides to fight in the Civil War, it follows his thoughts as he is filled, in turns, with patriotism, doubt, fear, shame, cowardice, and heroism.
I wasn't quite ready for such a thought-filled story, expecting more of a narrative; it was not only quite engaging but also at times humorous and quite insightful.
An interesting trick Crane pulled was not using the main character's name throughout most of the book (since the first couple of chapters? something that's hard to go back and check with an audio book), but instead identified him as "the youth" or some such. Helped create more of an Everyman the reader (or listener) could identify with, no matter which side you might have rooted for.
I would recommend READING vs. LISTENING TO this book. I felt like a lot of thematic elements and the beauty of the language itself was lost in the reading. It was tough to pay attention to this particular reader.
Through highly vivid and visual prose, this novel provides a first-person description of a cruel American Civil War battle. Much of the story describes how the difficult battle affects the mental state of a young recruit on the front lines. In particular, the young hero vacilates between wanting to fight and wanting to flee.
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Applications are now being accepted through May 30 for those three and four year olds who qualify to attend Head Start offered through the Family Service Association.
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Congratulations to Northside School District's 210 campus first year and veteran educators of the year for the 2013-14 school year. These individuals will be recognized at special celebrations in their honor beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Brennan High School auditorium.
This week is School Breakfast Week and Northside is celebrating by inviting students to "Rise and Shine Texas Style!"
The 46th annual NISD Special Olympics ceremonies scheduled for Monday and Tuesday have been canceled due to the cold weather. The remainder of the week continues as scheduled for March 5-7 at Gustafson Stadium.
The 2014 Northside Education Foundation (NEF) 5K Run/Walk and Family Wellness Fair, presented by AXA, takes place Saturday, March 29. In 2013, almost 5,000 participated, setting a record for NEF and the need to super-size from NISD's Dub Farris Stadium to SeaWorld.
Last night, Trustees discussed and took action on several items: approved the District's 2015-2016 school calendar, approved the use of District High School Allotment funds to subsidize AP exams, recognized several award-winning teachers and administrators, appointed several campus administrators including the new principal at Blattman ES, and discussed a name for a new elementary school.
Mary Lagleder, a History teacher at Warren HS, is a finalist for the prestigious H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards, recognizing her as one of the best educators in Texas.
Fifty teams from across the state of Texas including Stevens and Warren high schools competed in the Texas Academic Decathlon (AcDec) this past weekend to a fanfare of well-wishers and supporters. With nine members per team, more than 450 students competed.
While the Olympics plays out on the world stage in Sochi, Russia, an Olympics-type event will be held in San Antonio on Feb. 21-22 as well. The event uses mental muscles and in the end, there will be a ceremony with high school students receiving the coveted gold, silver, or bronze medals.
Northside ISD is holding a Transportation Job Fair to fill 170 positions for bus drivers. The job fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17 at the Culebra Transportation Station, 7001 Culebra Road.
The latest University Interscholastic League reclassifications and realignments were announced earlier this week, and for the first time, all 10 Northside high schools will now compete in the same district, 27-6A.
The Northside ISD Board of Trustees has been named a finalist for best school board in Texas in the 2014 Excellence in Education Awards program sponsored by H-E-B.
Northside ISD has hundreds of school-business-community partnerships who help sustain and are the lifeblood of campus life. They provide many services and resources that benefit the District's faculty, staff and students, as well as their organizations.
For the fourth year in a row, the Northside School Museum Association is selling Fiesta medals. These limited-edition collectibles can be purchased at the Partnerships Office beginning Feb. 1.
Three words. As Galm Elementary School celebrated "No Name Calling Week" recently, counselor Janina Cleveland challenged students to come up with three words that would encourage others to put a stop to bullying behaviors.
The NISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously (6-0) Tuesday night to call for a School Bond Election for $648.34 million following extensive study and consideration by the 250-member District-wide 2014 Citizens' Bond Committee.
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Trilithium Torpedoes Weapon Power
Veridian III
When the shockwave produced by the destruction of the Veridian star reached Veridian III, the planet was completely destroyed over a period of approximately seven seconds. The rubble produced was moving at a rate approximately equal to one planetary diameter every five seconds - equating to 2,500,000 metres per second. The energy required to do this is given by :
Planet destruction energy = 0.5 x mass of planet x rubble velocity2
= 0.5 x 6 x 1024 x 2,500,0002
= 1.875 x 1037 Joules.
But this is only that portion of the total energy which was intercepted by the planet - the entire energy would be evenly distributed over a spherical shell with a radius equal to the planets orbital distance. To calculate the entire energy of the shockwave we must determine what fraction of the wave was intercepted by the planet. This is given by :
Fraction = (area of a circle with radius of planet) / (area of a spherical shell with radius of planets orbit around sun)
= (pi x (radius of planet)2) / (4 x pi x 1 AU2)
= (1.247 x 1014) / (2.828 x 1023)
= 4.409 x 10-10
So the total energy of the shockwave would be given by :
Total energy output = Energy to destroy planet / Fraction
= 1.875 x 1037 / 4.409 x 10-10
= 4.25 x 1046 Joules
This energy was delivered over a period of some 7 seconds, equating to a power output of P = 6.075 x 1045 Watts
This represents the minimum energy output of the Amagosa and Veridian detonations - in fact it is perfectly possible that the energy release was considerably above this level, if the planet absorbed less than 100% of the energy incident upon it.
To produce an energy release of this magnitude some 4.73 x 1029 kg of matter must be converted completely to energy with 100% efficiency. This represents some 23.6% of the total mass of the star involved.
Gravitational Theory??
Shortly after the Amagosa detonation, Captain Picard and Lieutenant Commander Data spend some time analysing Dr. Sorans motives in the Stellar Cartography imaging room. During this analysis, Data explicitly states that the stars destruction has caused a significant change in the gravitational fields in the area. This fits in ideally with the loss of a significant percentage of the mass of the star, and is strong confirmation of the above calculations.
Some have suggested that the gravitational changes are due to a large amount of mass being blown off the surface of the star - that in fact this material comprised the shockwave which destroyed the planet. But this simply cannot be so - in the Viridian detonation Dr. Soran planned to alter the course of the Nexus so that it would take him off the planet. But the centre of gravity of a spherical shell lies at the centre point, so the course of the Nexus would only be significantly altered once it had passed through the shockwave... which would mean that the planet would have to be inside the shockwave... which would mean that Soran would be dead before the Nexus reached him. In order to alter the combined gravity field of the shockwave-star before it reached, the mass must have been significantly reduced in the initial implosion/explosion.
So far as I know, the use of the trilithium weapon against the Amargosa system is single largest destructive energy release in all of Star Trek history - possibly in all of science fiction history. Since the Trilithium warhead can be contained within what appeared - in the case of the Amagosa detonation - to be a standard Starfleet torpedo/probe casing, then it could presumably be used by any existing Starfleet ship. This would, for example, allow a Galaxy class starship to destroy some 250 solar systems without any form of replenishment. Indeed, if the ship where to stock its cargo bays with extra weapons then several thousand could easily be accomodated.
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Yorktown Stroll on Sunday
The Yorktown Arts Foundation and York County invite the public to celebrate Arts Month in Yorktown for the Second Annual Yorktown Art Stroll on Sunday, Sept. 29, from 11 a.m. to 6 p. m. Enjoy a stroll through the town while artists display and sell their work in various shops and businesses in Yorktown, including Riverwalk Landing and the Freight Shed. Meet the artists and chat with them about their artwork. Oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, glass, drawings, photography, jewelry, pottery, painted furniture, basketry and turned wood will all be represented. Many local restaurants and businesses will remain open after 6 p.m. Artists interested in participating should contact Mary Grimsley at firstname.lastname@example.com. Pictured is an artist painting on Main Street. www.visityorktown.org.
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