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Howto: change default user
From andLinux
How to change the default user
The andLinux startup scripts will eventually invoke a script at /usr/bin/X11/startwindowsterminalsession. The last lines of this script are
termcommand=`cat /etc/winterm` sux - root ${termcommand}
The root user is the default user for launching programs on the andLinux VM. To change the default user, you need to replace the user name in this file, and restart andLinux. However, there is a catch. If you are replacing root with a non-privileged user, the launcher.pl daemon will not be able to open port 81 (the default, recall) for listening, because the first 1024 ports require super-user privileges to access.
So to replace root with some other privileged user simply requires changing the name, while replacing it with a non-privileged user requires more work. We'll create a user joachim for our example.
Step 1: Create the user
root@andLinux:~# adduser joachim Adding user `joachim' ... Adding new group `joachim' (1001) ... Adding new user `joachim' (1001) with group `joachim' ... Creating home directory `/home/joachim' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Changing the user information for joachim Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default Full Name []: Joachim von Paderborn Room Number []: Work Phone []: Home Phone []: Other []: Is the information correct? [y/N] y
If you are creating a privileged user, you'll need to do more than this--you'll want to override the userid, setting it to 0, or create an administrative group and add the new account to it. For the rest of us, it's probably enough to create a "plain old user" and then give them sudo privileges with visudo.
Step 2: Change the name used by andLinux
Now you'll need to edit the /usr/bin/startwindowsterminalsession file. Change the last lines from this:
termcommand=`cat /etc/winterm` sux - root ${termcommand}
to this:
termcommand=`cat /etc/winterm` #sux - root ${termcommand} sux - joachim ${termcommand}
Note that if you created joachim as a privileged user, you are done at this point. But you didn't, so keep reading.
Step 3: Change launcher port
Now you need to change the port number used by the launcher, because non-privileged logins cannot access port numbers below 1k. First, edit the /usr/local/sbin/launcher.pl script. At or near line #10, you will see:
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET(LocalPort => 81, Reuse => 1, Listen => 20) or die("Error creating local socket: $@\n");
Change the LocalPort from 81 to some other value. For this example, let's use 8181:
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET(LocalPort => 8181, Reuse => 1, Listen => 20) or die("Error creating local socket: $@\n");
At this point, the script is fixed but nothing will happen until you restart the andLinux server. Just run reboot and let's fix up the Windows side.
Step 4: Change port used by Windows launcher apps
As documented here, the default andLinux configuration expects the andLinux VM to be at IP address 192.168.11.150 and expects the launcher.pl script to listen on port 81.
From the Windows desktop, select Start → Run... then enter regedit in the Run dialog box. Browse the registry tree to open a registry key called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE.
At this point, you will have to right-click on the SOFTWARE entry, and select New > Key. Create a new key andLinux then right-click the andLinux key to create a new key Launcher beneath it. Finally, right-click to create two new entries below \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\andLinux\Launcher:
New > String Value Rename this value "IP" Double-click "IP", and set the "Value data" to "192.168.11.150" New > DWORD Value Rename this value "Port" Double-click "Port" and set the "Value data" to 8181. Be sure and choose "Decimal" for the base. Exit the registry editor.
At this point, your Windows launchers will connect to andLinux using 192.168.11.150:8181, instead of the default ...:81. Your VM should have finished rebooting, so start the andKonsole launcher as a test.


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Review: East of West #1
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by LOLtron » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:26 am
A review of the new Image series.
Jonathan Hickman really loves his alternate histories. Whether it's exploring the effects of time travel in Pax Romana, showing the impact superpowers have on historical figures in SHIELD, or turning a group of super-scientists into…well super-scientists in Manhattan Projects, many of Hickman's projects are about cultivating wild new worlds caused by deviations from recorded history. East of West, Hickman's newest Image ongoing with artist Nick Dragotta, features yet another of Hickman's alternate histories, this one framed by an impending apocalypse of biblical proportions.
Like Hickman's other work, the premise isn't an easy one to describe. The book is set fifty years into the future and is set in a fractured America in which Union wars against the Confederacy and a united Indian nation were summarily ended by a comet strike. The comet strike not only solidified a divided America, it also heralded a second book of Revelations penned by a Confederate preacher, an Indian chief and Mao Zedong, which foretold the coming of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Still with me? Good, because all that is set up in two pages. The rest of the book features presidential assassination attempts, child horsemen of the Apocalypse, weird cricket motorcycles and a wild gunslinger with a vendetta. In a world in which major comic book companies peddle fluff event comics that take multiple issues to set up the basic premise, Hickman and Dragotta jump right into the action and hooks readers from the start.
East of West is everything that a modern comic should be. Smart, deep and unconventional, the book mixes stunning visuals with a multilayered plot. It also feels like a Hickman book; Hickman's love of symbology and seeding for future plotlines are on full display throughout the issue and Dragotta's art is flawless.
If there's one weakness to the series is that in amid all the world-building and setup, there's drastically little characterization. Death, the main character of the series, seems like your typical angry future space cowboy. The only characters that are given any depth at all are the child Horsemen, who will probably be the breakout characters of the book. Still, there's only so many pages that Hickman can stuff into one comic, and I'm confident he'll flesh out his characters in future installments.
If you're a fan of high concept science fiction, East of West is the book for you. Hickman and Dragotta have once again delivered a book unlike anything else on the market.
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by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:36 pmWow, you got some crazy views, there's obviously a lot of interest out there in reading reviews of East Of West.
I liked it, for a first issue. I think it will be interesting to see where it goes. I assume given the scope of the world Hickman has laid out (in map form at least), that the cast will open up as well. Sort of like Manhattan Projects has.
The weakest part for me was also characterization, or more specifically the character of the Death himself. Dozens and dozens of random, anonymous people were slaughtered off-panel in this issue--it reminded me of that classic scene in Miracleman, but entertainment and comics cultures have come a long way since then and it's somehow less shocking now, so I hope there's more to East Of West than that. \
It didn't knock my socks off immediately like Manhattan Projects did, but it did leave me similarly wanting to read more.
And Image so often produces such beautiful, smartly-designed comics these days! I look over the Marvel and DC covers, I want to puke half the time.
by Punchy » Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:55 pm
I'm kind of over covers that are all blocks of solid colour or solid white.
I picked this up, I'll probably write a review for the RG.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:11 pm
I know you like your comics covers splattered with candy-colored fetish men, with their muscles rendered erotically under the photorealistic leather and vinyl.
by Punchy » Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:27 pm
Nah, it just seems like 'innovative cover design' is only one thing, lots of block colour.
Hawkeye, Saga, anything by Hickman, they all do it.
There needs to be something more than white space.
by Sunless » Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:04 pm
I liked the Dicks parody cover. It was based on one of the Saga covers.
by Grayson » Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:07 pmI really hope my LCS still has a copy of this tomorrow because I forgot to pick it up while I was in the store on Wednesday and I couldn't make it back today.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:17 pmWho bought #2 today?
I did, but I still am not connecting with this new series. Loved the new Manhattan Projects out today as well, though.
East Of West is still sort of dancing around the nature of the conflicts at play while introducing a shit ton of new characters this issue, including Death's old lady.
by thefourthman » Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:35 amI just read vol tpb. I absolutely love this book.
by Punchy » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:47 pm
It gets even better.
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Rough Linen Bedding by Tricia Rose
Design:Rough Linen Bedding
Materials: Natural linen with a homespun feel
Designer: Tricia Rose
"I modelled my simple, elemental bedding on a homespun, handwoven pillowcase made by my great-grandmother, which I discovered in the old linen press of my family home. When I found a similar linen, I made bedding first just for myself, but other people liked it and it took off."
"I have now commissioned double-width fabric woven to my specification, am just adding slight-less-rough sheets to the existing Rough Linen duvet covers and shams, and my range is carried by six shops, and growing."
Designer: Tricia Rose
Link: RoughLinen.com
Location: San Rafael, CA
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Death Knell into the Coffin of Biggest Enterprises Network
Posted by Sandeep Shelke on November 29th, 2011
How government is, at first, planning to render the farmers jobless and then spending exchequer's money to make them employable labors at industries to be setup?
- More thank 2.5 Lakh farmers committed suicide in Bharat since 1995. [Read stats]
- Maharashtra is leading the chart by accounting for more than 30% suicide cases.
- Through policy of freebies, NREGA, controlled market government has paralyzed the farming community.
- On one side our food production is not enough e.g. pulses, cereals while whatever being produced is of less nutritional values.
- PM lost his sleep when a person was arrested under the charges of terrorist activity in Australia. But he does not talk about 70-75Crore farming population's agony. Without fail he says there is 70% excess human resources in farming, on what basis he made this statement? Is he following the designs of making this nature loving, agrarian economy into an urbanized industrial economy which will be dependent on foreign countries for food at the end of the day?
- I do not oppose promoting modernization or industries but making policies to exploit one section to serve other isn't a leader is expected to do.
- P. Chidambaram propose to convert land owners into industrial labours by acquiring land, setting up businesses and then employing the land owners as labours. For that he propose to setup 1000 training schools. This all on the suggestions of world bank. Did he bother to go and ask the farmers for that matter? No he did not.
- Sole question is why not to promote agriculture to the fullest through farmer friendly policies. If at all you want to setup industry have the land owners as partners, share earning with farmer.
- E.G. At my in-laws village there is one farmer family who earn Rs. 1Cr per year from pomegranate orchard of 9 acres. Can Mr. MMS and Mr. PC make sure that he will continue to earn this much after industry setup? Not just that my in-laws earn Rs.10-13 Lakh per year in Sugar cane crop from 6 acres while having the luxury to eat fresh vegetables and freedom from pressure. Will he be able to maintain this lifestyle?
- Kautilya has clearly asked to develop rural area through agricultural economic activities. Gandhiji too asked for "Gram Swaraj". And this Harvard/Cambridge tribe of politicians want rampant urbanization that too on behest of world bank/IMF. A question arises then for whom are the policies? are they for us or the IMF/World bank?
- Kautilya has emphasized on Aanvikshiki (Philosophy) at the start of the book. Because he want the King/Leader/Minister to be a person with logical reasoning.
- Kautilya repetitively speaks about sustainable development. If food is imported then how can it be sustainable?
- Kautilya talks of Association with elders and continuous learning. Our politicians seem to be forgetting the importance of the thoughts proposed by our elders and wise at various times.
- Society has to become duty centric by shunning right seeking attitude, since exploitation is not a way of human life, exploitation is barbarism.
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andrew dent needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 30 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Sydney Harbour Boat Tours
Sydney Harbour Boat Tours, is a new tour on Sydney Harbour. Its is the only type of tour of its kind on Sydney Harbour, it basically goes where alot of the others don't. It is an adventourous tour that is done in a smaller boat, which allows us to get up close and personal to certain houses and icons on Sydney Harbour.
The tour is known at this stage as Backpacker Boat Tours, though after a year and half, of people saying they were getting scared off by the word Backpacker, I have had to change it to the new name of Sydney Harbour Boat Tours, so it will attract a wider audience, and all types of people.
Alot of boat companies have the opera house and harbour bridge in it, so Im looking for something a little different, but that doesnt mean I want to disclude the shapes of the harbour bridge or opera house in the design, as these shapes are definitley recogniseable around the world.
The target audience is everyone and anyone, the tour is designed for any age and type. But they do have to have to be of reasonable health and fitness. People who are fun and adventourous, and like to get outdoors
Colourful, striking but a clear image, and wording, as this will be seen on the side of my boat and coutesy bus, I use. It has to be able to be read by people of all different types and from all different backgrounds. I will also use the logo on my brochures and in my web design.
Nothing to flash looking, but not cheap, just clean, clear and easy on the eye.
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Here is an easy 4th of July craft for Kids to make that can be used to play with or to add to your 4th of July table as a red, white & blue patriotic centerpiece.
Items needed:
- Empty oatmeal container (Ours is large size, so if you use a smaller container be sure to adjust your sizes of materials.)
- Cardboard or foam board to make Brim
- Red/ White/ Blue Construction paper
- Nontoxic Craft glue
- Scissors
- Pencil or pen
You may use "sticky backed" foam sheets instead of the construction paper & glue.
- Find a piece of cardboard that is wide enough to make a 2-3 inch brim for your hat. You can determine this by placing the bottom of your container on the piece of cardboard to see if it is wide enough. Then, center your container on the cardboard and draw a circle.
- Next, find a round object (plate works well) and draw another circle that will determine the size of your brim.
- Parent should cut out the circles carefully and then child can do the rest.
- If you are using a large oatmeal container, you will notice that there is a ridge running around the top edge. This will actually hold your brim in place. Slip the brim down over the container so that it now sets on the ridge. You can now glue or tape this in place. Ours fit rather securely so we skipped this step.
- If you have a container without an edge, then tape your brim in place.
- Cover container with red construction paper (or foam) and tape or glue in place.
- Cut a Blue band, about 2 1/2 inches wide and 17-171/2 inches long. Remember to check measurements for your container before cutting any pieces. Glue into place above the brim.
- Cut 8 White strips (ours were 1 inch wide x 7 inches long). Glue in place above the blue band.
- Cut out the star pattern and then trace star onto White paper or foam. Make 6 stars and glue into place on the Blue band.
- Cut a Red or Blue circle to make the crown of the hat and glue this into place.


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by Sue Ann Rybak
Rondell Johnson, 22, formerly of Chestnut Hill, is just struggling to survive. He is just one of the many hardworking Americans working for minimum wage. Johnson, who works as a baggage handler at Philadelphia International Airport from 12:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., five days a week, lives in North Philadelphia with his 28-year-old cousin, who is on dialysis.
"I am barely paying the bills," said Johnson, who has asthma. "I don't have any benefits. Sometimes, I have to go to the hospital at night to get a breathing treatment and an inhaler. Whenever I have any kind of medical problem, I am forced to go to the emergency room because I make too much money to qualify for health insurance. My hospital bills just keep going up and up."
As a service worker employed by a company contracted by the airlines at Philadelphia International Airport, he is not entitled to the 21st Century Living Wage Law, which requires all employees on city contracts to be paid a minimum of $10.88 an hour plus benefits. The city, however, does not hold contracted and subcontracted employers at the airport to this standard. The result is that thousands of airport employees work for poverty wages: $7.25 an hour with no benefits.
"I shouldn't have to apply for welfare," Johnson said. "I have a job where I am working full-time. I know plenty of people who are just sitting back collecting welfare. I am not asking for a handout – I am just asking for what's fair and right."
And that's exactly why Philadelphians Organized to Witness Empower & Rebuild (POWER) are asking residents to join them at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at Deliverance Evangelistic Church, 2001 Lehigh Ave., to demand living wages for airport workers.
More than 4,000 religious leaders, clergy, residents and workers – including Philadelphia School Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr. – are expected to attend. It is part of POWER's "Building a City of Opportunity that Works for All campaign."
Rev. Linda Noonan, co-pastor of Chestnut Hill United Church, said even though the airport is far from Chestnut Hill and very few workers live in this area, residents should care because "the airport could be our city's best weapon in the fight against poverty."
"And that should matter to all the residents of Philadelphia," she said.
Philadelphia's airport is a major economic engine that generates more than $14.4 billion in spending.
But according to "Raising the Bar: Ensuring that Airport Expansion Lifts All of Philadelphia," a new study released by Fight for Philly, the airport's low-bid contracting system for airline subcontractors allows profitable companies to force workers to live in poverty.
The lease agreement that governs subcontracted positions such airport skycaps, janitorial workers, disability service attendants, baggage handlers and thousands of other airport workers expires on June 30.
David Koppisch, a member of Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Germantown, said POWER is demanding that the new lease agreement provide employees with a minimum wage of $10.88 an hour, access to health benefits and first-source hiring.
"First source hiring is something that other communities across the country have successfully advocated for," Koppisch said. "It is a system that the requires the employer to look first at applicants that meet a certain set of criteria."
For example, applicants in a low-income bracket from zip codes that are immediately adjacent to the airport would have a short "window of opportunity" before the job is posted.
Mary Laver, also a parishioner at St. Vincent's, said that even from an economic point-of-view, "when people aren't making a living wage – those wages aren't going back into the economy. It creates a downward spiral that affects every aspect of people's lives."
Noonan pointed out that "when more residents of our city work in the living wage jobs that can be created with the proposals POWER congregations are bringing before the City Council and the administration, they will plow taxes back into the city, put more police on the street, more teachers in our schools and provide better services for all."
"I believe that all of us, regardless of our faith traditions, are called to build a city of opportunity that works for all," she said.
The Rev. W. Jarrett Kerbel, of the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, said the campaign was an "opportunity for us to improve the lives of low-income workers receiving poverty wages."
"We're coming together to make real concrete change," he said. "To me, it's the beauty of a participatory democracy working. I feel very positive that people care about their neighbors and city so much that they put in a tremendous amount of hours to plan and arrange this event."
Antony Dugdale, a member of Second Baptist Church in Germantown, said that no matter what your own personal experiences are, "we all should be standing up and speaking out for better jobs for the entire city."
It's not about anyone of us," he said, "it's about the entire city of Philadelphia and building a city where everyone has access to good jobs."
Rabbi Linda Holzman, of Mishkan Shalom Synagogue in Roxborough, said, "We see God as the power that leads towards justice and toward building a more just world, and that means that we must work together to transform the social and economic policies that are impacting our city – we have POWER in Philadelphia and we're going to show it on April 21."
Imam Abdul Halim Hassan, of Masjidulah in West Oak Lane, said, "Our power comes from our diversity."
"We can't be separate from the world – we have to be part of the solution," he said. "POWER seeks to bring social justice to all people in Philadelphia, regardless of their race, religion, creed, ethnicity or whatever. We breathe the same air and live in the same world. It's really not about race, religion or economic status. It's about justice. What's right and what's fair."
For more information about POWER or the demonstration, go to www.powerphiladelphia.org or call 215-232-7697.


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Sales Consultant
- Recruiter
- Bensons for Beds
- Location
- Darlaston
- Salary
- £15,600 per annum
- Posted
- 30 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 22 Sep 2017
- Sector
- Hair & Beauty
- Contract Type
- Full Time
Bensons for Beds, Britain's favourite bed specialist has an exciting opportunity for an engaging and dynamic Sales Consultant within our Wednesbury store. Using your outgoing personality, ambition and drive to earn a realistic and achievable OTE of £25,000, plus the chance to develop a rewarding career within our thriving and growing business.
Since opening our first ever bed centre store in 1972 we have grown to over 270 stores nationwide. Our mission is simple and that is to become the UK's number one bed retailer by providing an outstanding customer experience, through better products, better value and better service. Bensons for Beds are part of Steinhoff UK Retail, one of the world's largest furniture and homewares retailers.
Being a Sales Consultant for Bensons for Beds, you will play an integral part of your stores success by contributing and meeting annual sales and profit targets. You will become our brand ambassador and deliver a friendly, approachable and consultative sales experience ensuring a standard of high customer service as a priority. Selling is an important aspect within this role and to be successful, you must be prepared to be accountable for your results.
Your key responsibilities as our Sales Consultant will include:
- Focus on demonstrating a strong customer service ensuring your customers always feel welcome
- Confidently approach and build rapport with your customers to identify their needs and sell the right product(s)
- Achieve personal and branch sales targets
- Meet KPI's to monitor and develop personal performance
- Support with merchandising, store standards and POS
Personal qualities, behaviours and previous experience needed to be our Sales Consultant:
- Experience working towards targets and KPI's desirable but not essential
- Passionate about people and delivering excellent customer service
- Experience of building rapport using excellent communication skills.
- Previous experience of working in a similar consultative sales role, Sales Executive, Showroom Consultant, Design Consultant or Sales Advisor would be desirable but not essential.
- You must have an outgoing, approachable personality, are motivated, hard-working, driven and results orientated.
- It is essential that you are available and flexible to work evenings and weekends.
What can we offer you?
We believe our employees are imperative to our success therefore as our Sales Consultant you will earn a basic salary of £15,600 per annum plus a competitive commission scheme and an additional monthly store bonus which will allow you to earn £25,000 OTE. Alongside this we offer specialised product and management training from our Learning & Development team, so not only will you become a bed expert but you will be given the chance to develop and progress within the business. If you think you've got what it takes to be part of the team at the UK's number 1 bed retailer, then apply today. We're waiting to hear from you.


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Robles/Trittel Claim 2011 29er Open Orange Bowl Regatta Championship Title
3 January 2012
Article by Matt Pistay - Congratulations to Spain's Carlos Robles and Florian Trittel as they won the 2011 Open Orange Bowl Regatta Championship by a substantial margin. Sweden's Johanna Sommerlund and Marcus Anjemark finished in second, and USA's Judge Ryan and Hans Henken came third.
The final day of racing at the 2011 Open Orange Bowl Regatta, hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club was beautiful on Biscayne Bay as racers made their way out to the race course for the 1030 warning which ended up being delayed by 45 minutes.
Race one finally got underway in a shifty 5-6 knot nor'easter. Robles was quick to take an early lead to claim the win with Sommerlund finishing second.
The wind held its position steady for the start of Race 2. Tyler MacDonald and Mike Deady had a hot start off the pin end of the line, then tacked, crossing the fleet, but it was Ryan that reached the top mark first and continued to extend his lead for the win. Robles maintained an even strain to finish second.
For the final race of the day and event, the wind diminished, prompting PRO Ron Rostorfer to shorten the course at the second weather mark. Again, it was Robles out front with an early lead, extending for the win followed closely by USA's Daniel Goldman.
The 25-strong fleet enjoyed four days of great racing on Biscayne Bay. Every sailor, regardless of class were always mixing it up.
Melges USA also had a great time supporting this event and thoroughly enjoyed assisting customers with parts, service and a some coaching here and there. Melges has committed to supporting this event again next year! Keep up the great sailing and hope to see all of you on the water in 2012!
TOP FIVE RESULTS (FINAL - After 11 Races)
1.) Carlos Robles/Florian Trittel; 2-[4]-2-3-1-[26/RAF]-2-1-1-2-1 = 15
2.) Johanna Sommerlund/Marcus Anjemark; 8-3-3-5-4-2-[9]-2-3-[12]-3 = 33
3.) Judge Ryan/Hans Henken; 1-1-1-1-7-5-14-[18]-5-1-[15] = 36
4.) Duncan Williford/Matthew Mollerus; 4-2-4-2-8-[26/OCS]-10-8-[14]-6-12 = 56
5.) Zack Downing/Andrew Cates; [18]-10-9-4-5-13-1-3-9-3-[21] = 57
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Recently the California State University announced that unless a referendum passes that will partly restore their funding levels, they cannot afford to admit more students. So they won't. They're going to freeze admissions.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
What the Cal State Gambit Says about Public Education Costs
Posted by Raised By Republicans at 7:38 AM
13 comments:
- USWest said...
I am glad you posted on this. I was wondering how that works because it's counter intuitive. You'd think that admitting students would guarantee funding and freezing admissions would actually cut revenue. But if each student represents a loss . . .
One of my co-workers who worked as an administrator for a military school once told me that each day he delayed a hiring action, he saved the institution $44,000. So he would delay several for a week or so just to save the money to cover salaries for existing employees all the way through the fiscal year. If you hire more employees in a given year than originally planned, you have to stretch the budget. Same is probably true for new university students. CSUs have been growing quickly in terms of student population.
If the CSUs actually do this, then the JCs will be grossly impacted. They are a system that is subsidized and operates at a loss! They won't be able to absorb all those students.
It really is a crisis. UC's are required by law to take so many students from California. So California students will have to go out of state, which will mean higher tuition costs for families. It's better for the state to subsidize our schools rather than forcing our students to subsidize out of state schools.
Brown needs to get a constitutional convention going. We have to fix the tax problem in this state.
- Raised By Republicans said...
Taxes HAVE to go back up in California. Notice I say "go back up" not just "go up." The tax rate in the early 1990s was sufficient to cover current costs without this crisis. Republicans and their populist rabble have been driving the debate on public revenue and spending for too long. We are not over taxed either in comparison to peer countries or in comparison to our own past. This fetish with constantly lowering taxes is destroying important public services - like education.
If California doesn't fix the tax problem - and US West is right that it will take a constitutional convention because of Prop 13 - it is in danger of becoming a tragically bifurcated society in which the super wealthy live in big houses and send their kids to private universities or public universities that are so expensive that might as well be private and the vast majority of society rents, lives in modest or even squalid conditions and has no hope of social mobility in the future. California is a test case for the Republican "Starve the Beast" strategy of achieving their Dickensian Dystopia.
- USWest said...
Republicans want to drain the system to create just the environment RBR describes. They think poor people are guilty for their poverty because they are just irresponsible. And of course, God will provide. They want a permanent underclass they can exploit. The bad part is that "middle class" is starting to look "poor". The irony is that Republicans are a minority in this state, but they are an effective opposition force.
As for education, I've long said that we put too much emphasis on college- academics, and not enough on occupational trades. And maybe we need to reform our General Education requirements in colleges. Maybe we should require an Intro to computer science course rather than say psychology.
And businesses and trade unions are to blame for some of this. Unions are the worst. Business have tried to some degree. They need to take a page from ROTC, professional sports, or even street gangs. Get them in young. Hold then close and keep them straight.
And then there was this notion that everyone would be IT specialist and "knowledge workers" and we'd export all the manual work to India. That was crap and now we have to re-adjust.
So Mexicans do the occupational trades and white kids go to school, with no clear clue about what to do with themselves afterwards.But ideally, they'd be doctors,lawyers, and teachers.
There is a disconnect between education and the job market. Somehow we decided that the purpose of education was not to get a job but to be a "well-rounded", "cultured" person. That may have been true when college students were exclusively rich kids and when trades were learned from "daddy and mommy". But today, that notion is wrong.
An article in the local paper described "Occupational Olympics, a different version of Academic Decathlon. High school students competed in 24 events ranging from accounting to welding, robotics to marketing mathematics.54 business and industry representatives exhibited and spoke to students about future careers. More of this needs to be done.
That said, even people working in manufacturing need some college work. Analytical, science, math, and language skills are needed more and more. Robotics is the new "machinist".
I have to say I'm a little bit confused about this. How can an additional student possible generate a loss? It seems that most costs are fixed: (tenured) faculty, buildings, ... You can always make classes bigger. It's the marginal cost that matters and I have trouble seeing how MC could be greater than tuition.
So I'm wondering whether this is mainly a PR stunt - a way of making it crystal clear to the public that underfunding education has consequences.
By the way, I totally support more education funding; I don't have any beef with that message at all. Just wondering ...
- Raised By Republicans said...
Monkey Man, I think I get your question. Let me try to explain. Part of it is in your parenthetical reference to tenured faculty. To that, I'd add tenure tack faculty (faculty members on full time, long term contracts). They are going to be there even if a new class of students does not get admitted. But many universities rely on temporary faculty that are hired on year by year, semester by semester or even a class by class basis. These instructors get paid a lot less than the tenure track folks but they still get paid. So more students means hiring more of them and if tuition doesn't cover the costs...
The Cal States don't have PhD programs for the most part but some schools will use M.A. students as Teaching Assistants. T.A.s can cost even more than the temporary faculty because they get more expensive benefits but work with fewer students per T.A. (tuition remission, health care etc). Reducing the number of students can have a huge impact on the number of T.A.s a college has to hire.
Another factor can be housing costs. If a full incoming class forces a Cal State to have all their dorms open and operating, that's a cost. It might be (just guessing on this one) that not admitting and entire entering class at once would let a Cal State campus temporarily close a dorm or two.
All that said, I think it is partly a stunt. But it is based in some economic realities. It does cost far more to educate a student than the student (or the student's parents) pay in tuition. I think that gap is probably less glaring when you look at marginal costs but I would bet it is still there.
I would point out that our campuses offer a plethora of services that are unheard of in other countries. examples: Gyms, medical facilities, in-dorm computer assistance, campus wide WI-fi networks,distance learning facilities, free printing services,expanded libraries and library hours, special outdoor facilities like skate parks on campus, etc. It is rather decadent really. The more use, the more need for maintenance, the more consumption. Our campuses are little villages. I visited a local CSU with my niece a while back and was stunned at what they were doing to draw students and cater to them. They had non-drinking dorms, co-ed dorms, single sex dorms, 24 hr. in dorm tech assistance and computer repair, etc. I imagine a lot of this will come to a halt as funding decreases.
I would add that the race for top notch technology is also a problem. Schools want to keep up with the latest trends in part to prepare their students. And that costs a lot of money. My institution, which is far from typical of any Junior college, thinks that it will save money "in the long run" (yet undefined) by going from a PC environment to a MAC environment. They think that issuing every student and teacher an Ipad and Mac book is money saving. We have 2000 teachers and 3,500 students. Do the math. When we protest the cost, we are assured that a study (none of us has seen said study) determined this would be cheaper. None of us believe it. This comes 5-7 years after we installed SmartBoards (at $10K a piece) in all of our classrooms and conference rooms. This comes as we face multiple year pay freezes and hiring freezes. So there has been some excess going on as well.
RbR, UsWest, thanks for your answers. That explains where all that cost comes from. I still find it surprising that these variable costs surpass tuition, but I guess there's a lot more to it than just faculty and buildings. It would be interesting to see some accounting data on how these costs actually stack up percentage-wise.
- Raised By Republicans said...
Monkeyman, we forgot student aid! Many students get some sort of aid from their school in the form of reduced fees or tuition. A friend of mine who is on the board of regents for an elite private liberal arts college said that way over half of that school's students get financial aid from the school (that is distinct from aid from the feds or loans).
At the university I currently work at (which I don't want to name so I can maintain my anonymity), faculty salaries (I don't know if that includes non-tenure track) amount to 36.8% of the 2011-2012 budget.
Here are the things I'm pretty confident could be cut if the number of students drops.
Student aid: 12.2% of the budget
General Service Salaries: 11.9%
Utilities: 5.4%
Supplies and Services: 8.5%
Now the university I work at gets 58.4% of its general budget covered from tuition. It may well be that Cal States get much less of their general budget covered by tuition. If that's the case, then they would be particularly sensitive to additional bodies on campus. Especially if they serve a lower income student population that would be more dependent on financial aid.
- Raised By Republicans said...
US West is right to point to student life type costs (like free wi-fi in the dorms, free printing services, entertainment activities) too. Some colleges have really gone all out to set up really fancy dorms with expensive cable/wi-fi packages and meal plans that the university provides for less than it costs them.
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September 2010 Jeep ShotsPosted in Features on September 1, 2010
Penny Wilson of Concord, North Carolina, received this '50 Jeepster as a present from her dad six years ago. Unfortunately, three years ago her dad passed away. He had owned the Jeep since the '50s, and after his passing Penny restored it to the condition you see here. The front end is a Fat Man independent setup and the rear has a Ford 8-inch in it. A new wiring harness controls a 350ci Chevrolet V-8 bolted to a TH350 transmission which breathes through a two chamber Flowmaster. The Jeep also got a whole new interior, top, and side curtains along with re-chromed chrome and newly-polished stainless steel.
Brown on Brown
This '73 J4000 hails from Portland, Maine, and belongs to Kevin Hagan. Kevin has owned the truck since the early '80s and it still has the 360ci V-8, TH400 transmission, and Dana 20 T-case. The engine breaths easier through a bevy of Edlebrock intake components and a true dual 2.5-inch stainless steel exhaust. The front and rear Dana 44s spin 33-inch BFG KM2 tires wrapped around Mickey Thompson Classic II rims. A rear Optima Yellow Top powers a 1000-Watt inverter for running tools and a fresh water pump that is hooked to a 6-gallon water tank.
Savings Not Loan
It might have taken a few years, but Ronald May from Tyler, Texas, has wanted a Jeep for long enough to finally stack away enough pennies to pick up this '02 Wrangler. For the time being the drivetrain is stock with the only modifications being a 2-inch Skyjacker lift kit used to clear a set of 33-inch Bighorn tires on a set of 15-inch-diameter Dick Cepek DC-1 rims. Future plans include front and rear electric lockers, front and rear bumpers, a winch, and liberal skidplating just as soon as the savings account will allow.
Beers and Sammiches
It isn't often we get people writing in with honest stories on how their Jeeps are built. Nick Sekulich came right out and told us that his Jeep was built with the help of a buddy's home garage, some sammiches, and countless beers. They left the 4.0L HO engine in place and bolted an NP435 up using an Advance Adapters bellhousing with an NP205 behind it. Power then hands off to a high-pinion Dana 44 front axle with 4.88 gears and a Detroit Locker. Out back the Dana 35 was stuffed with a Superior Super 35 kit, 4.88 gears, a Detroit Locker, and the whole thing is trussed in an attempt to keep it together. Super Swamper LTB's in 33x13.50-15 flavor are wrapped around some steel wheels.
This '06 Wrangler Rubicon belongs to Will Marshal of Louisville, Kentucky, who ordered it in 2006. Since then it has been draining his bank account in the form of a Rokmen Tummy Tuck, Riddler differential covers, and CurrectLync steering. The big money went into attempting to keep the stock axles alive with the 37x12.50R17 Goodyear MT/Rs with Kevlar on Walker Evans beadlocks. Surprisingly, the front and rear factory lockers are still holding up. Both axles feature chromoly shafts, 4.88 gears, and custom gusseting. Elevation comes from Old Man Emu springs and Rubicon Express Superflex arms which locate the axles. Modified Warn front and rear bumpers cover the ends, with Poison Spyder Rocker Knockers covering the sides.
Some Jeeps are beaters and some get beaten. Brian Banister's '96 Cherokee is a little of both. This Madison Heights, Michigan, resident is close to the Mounds off-road park as well as Silver Lake Sand Dunes, so it is easy to get out there. He has pieced together the suspension lift and it consists of 3-inch Pro Comp coils up front with Rubicon Express control arms and Rancho shocks. Out back, Pro Comp leaf packs with Wrangler add-a-leafs and lift shackles round out the package. Brian is running a set of 32-inch BFG MTs on 15x10 American Racing wheels, so the front Dana 30 with a Detroit Truetrac and rear Chrysler 8.25 with a Detroit Locker can handle the abuse.
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This '99 Grand Cherokee is the pride and joy of George Villalobos of San Jose, California, but his wife is apparently a little less amorous towards the family's Jeep. The WJ has the 4.7L V-8 topped with a K&N intake, Superchips programmer, and stuffed with E3 spark plugs. The engine is still bolted to the 45RFE, but a 3.8:1 Atlas II takes place of the stock T-case and sends power out to the axles with Tom Woods front and rear driveshafts. A custom flat 1/4-inch belly pan protects those vitals. A Tera 50 front axle and Tera 60R rear with 4.88s and ARB Air Lockers put power through the 17x9 steel wheels and 37-inch BFG KM2s.
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This picture was shot at Sal McCrossan's favorite place to go wheeling after a rain storm. Unfortunately, it is now a golf course. This Amherst, New York, resident kept it simple when building his '94 Wrangler by leaving the 4.0L, AX-15, and NP231 alone and instead put the money into a 21/2-inch Rubicon Express lift kit with military-wrapped spring eyes and heavy-duty shackles. A set of 31x10.50R15 mud terrain tires mean that regearing wasn't needed and Sal just added a rear Lock-Right locker to get him further through the mud pits he likes to wheel in.
This is a shot of Richard Anderton's '08 Unlimited Wrangler S coming down hill number 10 in Georgia Pass, Colorado. This Larkspur, Colorado, resident tells us he likes hitting the trails around his place in Colorado, as well as Moab, Utah. This JK has a Rugged Ridge XHD front bumper and Olympic rear bumper that protect the ends. An AEV rear differential skid, Warn front differential skid, and Olympic rock sliders round out the guards. Richard swapped an NVG241OR into the Jeep, added a 3-inch Old Man Emu lift, and a Warn M8000 winch.
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Prevention Innovations
Nine faculty and staff members are gathered around a conference table in Huddleston Hall. Each has carved out a space amidst the papers, bagels, laptops, bananas, and coffee for a four-hour retreat. Today's goal? To plan the future of their research center, Prevention Innovations. The tenor of the room is hopeful, excited. The future is filled with possibility. That's partly because the past has been such an unmitigated success for this collection of scholars.
Established at UNH in the fall of 2006, Prevention Innovations has, in its relatively short life, established its faculty as national leaders in research and practices for ending violence against women. Though the center has a half-dozen projects going at any one time, one of its most widely known is a bystander intervention program developed for college campuses. Bringing in the Bystander® is an in-person training program that teaches bystanders how to intervene safely before, during, or after an incident of sexual and relationship violence or stalking. The idea is to foster a sense of individual responsibility within a community. The Know Your Power® Bystander Social Marketing Campaign uses posters, bus wraps, bookmarks, and other marketing materials in a media blitz that focuses on the same message.
Both Bringing in the Bystander and Know Your Power have run successfully at UNH a number of times, and they've spread to campuses across the country. The programs have even been implemented at two U.S. army posts in Europe. Prevention Innovations just finished a one million dollar grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of which supported the programs at UMass Lowell. A recent University of California system/Verizon grant supported the adaptation of Know Your Power at the University of California at Merced, and an Avon grant supported the adaptation at Boise State University.
So successful are the programs that, two years ago, Vice President Joe Biden chose UNH as the place to announce new guidance for Title IX, part of which encourages universities to undertake sexual violence prevention education. Biden's visit also recognized the work of UNH's Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) and other campus prevention efforts, but there is no doubt that it is Prevention Innovations that has caught Washington's attention. A year earlier, the White House had invited top administrators from the Department of Justice to UNH for a briefing on their research.
Though other prevention programs are available nationally, none has included the level of assessment integral to the UNH programs. Pre- and post-tests are administered to participants, with 6- and 12-month follow ups. Measured are changes in attitudes and beliefs about sexual and relationship violence, knowledge of the problem, comfort levels with intervention, and whether or not participants have taken action as bystanders. The programs have yielded positive results in all areas, and the group has evidence to support the claim.
The assessment instruments are based on well-established testing measures, such as the Illinois Rape Myth Scale. Other measures have been developed by the group's members themselves.
"Vicki Banyard and Mary Moynihan are the 'gurus' of measurement," says Prevention Innovations Co-Director Sharyn Potter. "As Bringing in the Bystander became more well-known, people started requesting the measures Vicki and Mary created for use in their own programs. Now the measures are really 'it' in the field—they are very highly respected."
One goal of the assessments is to make the training programs themselves better. Prevention Innovations goes to the target audience during the development and evaluation of prevention strategies. They work closely with practitioners to implement their programs, part of which includes adapting them to ensure that they fit communities' needs. It's a unique approach. Few sexual violence prevention programs in the U.S. tailor their programs on an individual basis.
Potter and Co-Director Jane Stapleton visited the campus at the University of California, Merced, before implementing the Know Your Power campaign. They conducted focus groups with over 200 students to learn what scenarios resonated with Merced students. They found that existing social marketing images of overwhelmingly white students in a northeastern landscape had little relevance to the largely Hispanic student population in sunny California. The messages of the campaign were lost on students distracted by the medium itself.
"We showed the Merced students a photo we had taken at UNH's Holloway Commons, with the windows and brick buildings in the background," says Stapleton, "and they said, 'when we look out our windows, we don't see brick buildings.' The message that the students were giving us was 'that's not here, that's not me.'"
So Potter and Stapleton worked with a photographer and students at Merced to create images that would speak to the students' experience. They've coined a term for why this approach is important: Social Self Identification. Unless students see themselves in the contexts and actors depicted in the prevention programs, the messages will not resonate and the programs will be less effective.
It is this focus on research, assessment, and tailored implementation that positions Prevention Innovations well to continue to make an impact in their field. Back in the conference room, the group has hammered out a blueprint for the future. Not all of their plans are ready for prime-time, and the list of those that are is long. Here's a sample of upcoming projects.
Group members will collect pilot data at three historically black colleges and universities to assess how to adapt Know Your Power for these campuses. Very few prevention strategies address minority populations, notes Potter. Few—if any—strategies address the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. The group will focus attention on prevention strategies in these communities where, research suggests, unique factors are at play, such as threats of outing to silence victims. Group members have teamed up with a social justice game designer from Dartmouth to write a grant to develop a bystander intervention videogame. If successful, they'll pilot the game on the UNH campus before distributing it more widely. While much of the group's work is centered on college campuses, they will continue to expand their work beyond campus communities to include high school, professional, and U.S. military environments. Members will continue to develop creative ways to train students, professionals, and practitioners about their unique approaches to research, prevention, and collaboration. A recent "Evaluation Institute" by Prevention Innovations provided professionals with the skills and practice to evaluate their own prevention programs.
The broad goals of this research center are to more widely collaborate with scholars and practitioners in the field. They've recognized that they have something unique to offer: not out-of-the-box programs developed by companies dependent on product sales, but individualized programs and consultations based on research and developed within the framework of a major research university by a team highly invested in prevention strategies that work.
The need for prevention programs is not waning, say Potter and Stapleton. The rates of many violent crimes—murder, child victimization, for example—have decreased over the past 30 years, but, sadly, rates of sexual assaults on campuses have remained steady since 1987 when the first large study of the problem was released.
"The 18-24-year-old age group is at the highest risk for being both victims and offenders," says Stapleton. "There's something very unique about the college campus experience."
Success for this research group will be a substantial and continuing reduction in sexual and relationship violence and stalking on campuses and in communities across the world. Until that happens, Prevention Innovations will continue its research and remain loyal to the principles of innovation and collaboration.
To learn more visit Prevention Innovations.
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In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who stuck enough pins in enough voodoo dolls and got the 2009 Colts to commit consumer fraud on the football public.
Indy coach Jim Caldwell pulled his starters in the third quarter yesterday and let the Jets walk all over his Colts' perfect season, thereby ensuring that the '72 Dolphins remain football's bestest team ever. I'll leave the ethics of this to the Kantians hanging around ESPN and elsewhere (one of whom needs to explain why NFL convention demands that regulars only be rested en bloc in the second half and that they never, ever be re-inserted) and merely congratulate the old Dolphins bunch, who get to go on being the bitchiest, most insufferable collection of passive aggressives in all of sports.
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"While the Jets win today ended Indianapolis' streak and showed once again how difficult it is to go undefeated, I want to congratulate the Colts on a great run," coach Don Shula said.
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Here are some other winners who did not win quite as big:
Urban Meyer: for treating us to a Gainesville dinner theater production of Hamlet.
Lane Kiffin: who gets to look clear-headed and totally self-possessed in comparison. He will now break about 87 different NCAA rules trying to lure Florida recruits to Knoxville.
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Wimpy hurricane season a surprise - and a puzzle
It was a hurricane season almost without hurricanes. There were just two, Humberto and Ingrid, and both were relatively wimpy, Category 1 storms. That made the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which ended Saturday, the least active in more than 30 years - for reasons that remain puzzling.
The season, from June through November, has an average of 12 tropical storms, of which six to seven grow to hurricane strength with sustained winds of 74 mph or greater. Typically, two storms become "major" hurricanes, Category 3 or stronger, with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.
In 2013, there were 13 tropical storms, a typical number, but for the first time since 1994 there were no major tempests in the Atlantic. The last time there were only two hurricanes was 1982.
The quiet year is an outlier, however, in the recent history of Atlantic cyclones. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notes that 2013 was only the third calmer-than-average year since 1995.
The most intense storms this year had maximum sustained winds of only about 86 mph. Phil Klotzbach, a researcher at Colorado State University, said that is the weakest maximum intensity for a hurricane during a season since 1968. The first hurricane, Humberto, was just hours from matching the record for the latest first hurricane, Sept. 11.
In terms of accumulated cyclone energy, or ACE, the seasonal total stands at 31.1, the lowest since 1983 and just 30 percent of average. Looking back to 1950, only four other years had lower ACE totals: 1972, 1977, 1982 and 1983. (ACE is the sum of the squares of all of the storms' peak wind speeds at six-hour intervals, and a good measure of a storm season's overall power.)
To put that in perspective, Hurricane Igor (2010) alone racked up about 140 percent of this season's total.
While such an inactive season is not unprecedented, forecasters usually do a creditable job of anticipating one.
Why was this season so inactive? What did the forecasts miss? Although there are some hypotheses, it is not entirely clear. We may have to wait another couple of months, but in the meantime, there are some possible explanations.
• Dry air : Even over the long three-month window of August to October, the vast majority of the tropical Atlantic was dominated by drier-than-normal air, especially in the deep tropics off the coast of Africa. Dry air can quickly weaken or dissipate a tropical cyclone, or inhibit its formation.
• Stable air: The average temperature profile in the region was less conducive to thunderstorm growth and development during the core months, which means that the amount of rising air in the region may have been reduced as well.
• Weak African jet: Tropical waves, the embryos of many tropical cyclones, have their origins over continental Africa. A persistent feature called the African easterly jet stream - a fast-moving river of air in the low and middle levels of the atmosphere - extends from Ethiopia westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It breaks down into discrete waves, and every few days another wave leaves the coast. Some are barely noticeable, while others become tropical storms.
During the height of the hurricane season, most tropical cyclones form from disturbances off the coast of Africa.
Winds in the jet normally cruise along at 20 to 25 mph at an altitude of 10,000 feet from August to October, but this year they were about 12 to 17 mph weaker. One would expect that to have a big impact on the amplitude of easterly waves, and the hurricane season.
One question that inevitably is asked is how the season's inactivity relates to climate change. It's not accurate to associate any particular season (and definitely not a specific storm) with climate change. One season's activity does not allow any conclusions about the role of climate change. The reason is that intra- and inter-seasonal variability is so large that any subtle signals of influence from climate change are overwhelmed.
The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season begins in 181 days, on June 1. The first few names on the list are Arthur, Bertha and Cristobal.
Brian McNoldy is a tropical weather researcher at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
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International Mountain GuidesInternational Mountain Guides® – the "Best Mountaineering Outfitter on Earth" - National Geographic Magazine. International Mountain Guides® organize and lead climbing, trekking and mountaineering expeditions around the world, from the classic climbs of the Alps and Andes to the 8,000m peaks of the Himalayas.
National Ski PatrolWe are proud to support the National Ski Patrol in its credo of "Service & Safety". Tender Corporation's Adventure® Medical Kit brand designed a co-branded medical kit with National Ski Patrol which is used by the patrolers.
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)We have partnered with National Outdoor Leadership School, the leader in wilderness education, since 2010. NOLS sets the stage for the development of leadership skills and environmental ethics for the students of all ages. We brand proudly manufactures their medical kits which are sold at NOLS facilities and used by NOLS guide nationwide.
American Hiking SocietyTender Corporation has supported the American Hiking Society since 2008. The American Hiking Society promotes and protects foot trails, their surrounding natural areas, and the hiking experience. American Hiking Societies National Trails Day® is the nation's largest annual celebration of America's outstanding trails and outdoor recreation.
The Breast Cancer FundSince 2012, Tender's staff climbers have raised over $30,000 for the Breast Cancer Fund's Climb Against the Odds. We've had five staff climbers trek up California's 14,180 ft. volcano Mt. Shasta to raise awareness to prevent breast cancer by eliminating our exposure to toxic chemicals and radiation linked to the disease.
Four Corners School of Outdoor EducationWe support Four Corners School's Canyon Country Youth Corps who ensure the health and accessibility of public lands through various demanding projects. Extreme safety precautions are necessary for this type of work and the groups carry our medical kits on all trips.


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Warm Weather, Sunny Smiles During Test
Dale Jr., Team Gunning for First NHMS Win
The sun was beating down on the stands of New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Tuesday, but NASCAR fans weren't complaining as they watched their favorite Hendrick Motorsports and Ganassi Racing drivers test and tune their cars in preparation for the Camping World RV Sales 301 Sprint Cup Series race on July 13.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, and Jimmie Johnson from Hendrick Motorsports, and Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson from Ganassi Racing revved their engines at New England's largest sports and entertainment facility.
Fans were able to get out of the office for a day of great weather and fast cars, including Kristi Lemieux's 10th-grade math class at Great Bay Charter School in Exeter, N.H. Lemieux and her 30 students attended the test race as a field trip to wrap up their project revolving around Fantasy NASCAR.
Fantasy NASCAR for the students is designed to "demonstrate what they've learned through something that interests them," said Lemieux. The students learn about all aspects of NASCAR racing such as tire pressure and wear and tear through how fast they drive.
Lemieux has been a NASCAR fan since 2003 and a longtime fan of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson. Even with a baby due this summer, she still plans on attending the Sprint Cup Series race in July.
Season ticket holder Amanda Taylor, 38, from Manchester, N.H., didn't skip work today despite tweeting out to her followers "I strongly encourage all to play 'hookie' from the day job and come out to enjoy @TeamHendrick and @NHMS."
Taylor, a longtime Hendrick Motorsports fan went to her first race in 1999 and has followed Hendrick drivers religiously. In fact, her first encounter with Hendrick Motorsports was at a bone marrow drive with the Hendrick Marrow Program, which inspired Taylor to become a bone marrow donor herself.
"I didn't know anything about being a bone marrow donor," said Taylor, "but I signed up at a registry because of an event with Hendrick."
The Hendrick Marrow Program based in Charlotte, N.C., raises money to support patients in need of a marrow transplant and encourages more potential donors to sign up on the "Be The Match" registry to increase the chances of matching with a patient in need.
Taylor is a huge fan not only of Hendrick drivers, but of the charity work that the team and the speedway is involved with.
"Anything that I can get involved with; I love everything that Speedway Children's Charities does," said Taylor. "This facility keeps getting better and better. I love the track walks and the Richard Petty (Driving Experience)."
Taylor says that watching the races on television is nothing compared to seeing the races in person.
"To actually be here in person and to see everything that TV doesn't show you, and all of the sounds and smells, is great to experience," she said.
One of Taylor's favorite memories was watching Kasey Kahne win the July Cup race two summers ago at NHMS, "holding a lobster that was almost as big as he was," said Taylor. "It was so exciting to be at a race where my driver won.
"I support all of the Hendrick drivers equally, but if I had to pick a garage I'm hanging onto No. 5 and No. 24 Kasey Kahne and Jeff Gordon. But I also love Dale Jr. and Jimmie (Johnson)."
Taylor brought her mother to the SYLVANIA 300 race last September and plans on bringing her father to the Camping World RV Sales 301 race on July 13.


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ArcGIS 10 Map Layout Demo in ArcMap
February 17th, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Stewart Bruce of Washington College gave this tutorial as part of the GT101 course. This demo of how to make an actual layout in ArcGIS ArcMap will show you some tips and ticks to good layouts by running through a complete layout exercise. More information on our GT-101 course can be found at http://geoworkshops.org and more information on the Washington College GIS program can be found at http://gis.washcoll.edu
Put your data on the map using iVAULT GIS Cloud
February 17th, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Atrticle source: PacificAllianceTec
This is a webinar by Pacific Alliance Technologies to discuss the features and benefits of iVAULT Cloud. The webinar also presents a case study of the City of Terrace.
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Geomatica 2012 Tutorials – Exporting from Focus and RGB Channel mapping and Visualization in Focus
February 7th, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: pcigeomatics
PCI Geomatics has created a series of tutorials for Geomatics 2012. Here are some of them:
RGB Channel mapping and Visualization in Focus
Learn the easy way to change the channel mapping in Focus, in this case to produce a false colour composite highlighting vegetation in red – based on an Aster image collected over Fuji. We also show in this video how to use the visualization tools to swipe between two layers.
Exporting from Focus
A quick tutorial on using the Focus Viewer in Geomatica 2012 to quickly and easily create full resolution exported images for print.
More information on Geomatica 2012.
Big Bucks: Analyzing The 10 Most Expensive Streets in the USA in ArcGIS Online
February 6th, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: ESRIEdTeam
Examining the 10 most expensive streets in the USA with the spatial perspective, geographic framework and content, and ArcGIS Online, a web-based Geographic Information System.
Google Maps API Autocomplete
February 6th, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: GoogleDevelopers
This video explores the Autocomplete functionality of the Google Maps API Places Library.
How to create KML files for use in ObjectFX's SpatialRules
February 3rd, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: ObjectFXvideos
Learn how to create geo-boundaries and integrate them into SpatialRules through the use of KML files. SpatialRules® by ObjectFX is a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine for geospatial data.
For more information and a free demo account, please visit: http://www.objectfx.com/geospatial-mapping-products/spatialrules
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Washington College GIS Workshops
February 2nd, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: http://gis.washcoll.edu/
Washington College provides self-paced virtual instruction for the working professional who wants to develop or expand their knowledge of ArcGIS Desktop, ENVI EX, and Trimble GPS. You may start a workshop at any time.
These workshops were developed with funding through the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the Governor's Office for Crime Control & Prevention.
All workshops are available to anyone with an interest in Geospatial Technology at a cost of $800 per workshop. There is a 10% discount when you register for 2 or more workshops. Group rate discounts are available for organizations.
GT 101: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Basics
This workshop covers the basics of GIS for the novice by exploring Google Earth and ArcGIS Desktop. You will learn the ArcMap and ArcCatalog interfaces as well as how to classify a map and make a professional map layout.
GT 102: Introduction to ArcGIS Spatial and Information Analysis Tools
Geoprocessing tools, projections, and other spatial query tools will be examined along with information fundamentals such as querying, joining, and relating to allow you to create and modify tabular data.
GT 201: Managing Spatial Data in ArcGIS
After learning more about geodatabases, this workshop will cover more complex spatial processing tools such as digitizing, georeferencing, spatial adjustment, and raster data manipulation.
GT 202: Data Management in ArcGIS
In addition to discovering the fundamentals of geocoding, students will learn advanced data manipulation skills including annotation and labeling, hyperlinking, and other advanced attribute tricks.
GT 301: ArcGIS Spatial Analysis
The ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension is the focus of this workshop. Students will learn the basics on how to deal with DEM's and create slopes and contours. More advanced analysis on density mapping, site suitability analysis and least cost path modeling are also taught.
GT 302: ArcGIS 3D Analysis
Using the ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension, the student will learn how to create 3D community visualizations, construct terrain modeling, and build a 3D model of a building. All of this will culminate in learning how to produce animated movies of the 3D environment.
GT 401: Remote Sensing with ENVI EX
The field of remote sensing is introduced focusing on basic multispectral analysis and step-by-step image analysis exercises. Exercises include image classification, rule based feature extraction, and image difference change detection.
GT 402: Trimble GPS and Processing
This workshop focuses on obtaining useful & accurate data with Trimble GeoXt/XH GPS units, Pathfinder Office, and Terrasync. Skills covered include the basics of accurate GPS data collection, the application of real-time & post processed differential correction techniques, & creation of custom data dictionaries.
Google I/O 2011: GIS with Google Earth and Google Maps
February 1st, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: GoogleDevelopers
Building a robust interactive map with a lot of data involves more than just adding a few placemarks. Josh Livni and Mano Marks of Google Geo Developers Team talk about integrating Google Earth and Google Maps with existing GIS software, importing data from shapefiles and other formats, map projections, and techniques for managing, analyzing, and rendering large datasets. Brian Flood talks about ArcEarth by Arc2Cloud which is a bridge software between Esri's ArcGIS and Google Maps and Google Earth.
Autodesk Labs: Interactive Terrain Shaping for AutoCAD Civil 3D / AutoCAD Map 3D Pond
February 1st, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: Autodesk
The Interactive Terrain Shaping technology preview provides users with a unique workflow for developing grading proposals in AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 software. The primary goal of this effort is to provide a holistic approach to terrain shaping that allows users to go from concept to completion using the same model. The intent is to facilitate the development of comprehensive grading plans that can be easily tuned through the project cycle.
Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler for transportation projects
January 31st, 2012 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: Autodesk
Wesley Newman reviews the fundamentals of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler. See how to start a project and create a model from various data sources. Sketch new roads or rail, add buildings, water areas and other features to your model. Use styles to control the display of these features and create compelling proposals. Manage different design scenarios. Learn how to share project proposals with others using still images or videos. Take your conceptual models into detailed design with interoperability with design applications.


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"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you—for Paris is a moveable feast." If a single sentence could capture Pablo Chang-Castillo's (MAT '01/MACI '02) life, Ernest Hemingway would be its author.
Pablo was born in a tiny village on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, but his family was granted political asylum in the United States when he was a child and he grew up in a bilingual family between Central America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras) and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a teenager he was given the opportunity to study abroad in Limoges, France and that was when a life-long love affair with the country, its culture, and language began.
As a Monterey Institute student, Pablo received a scholarship to return to France as an exchange student to Institut Supérieur d'Interprétation et de Traduction, this time to Paris, to study conference interpretation. In Paris he met his life and business partner, Julien Brasseur (MATI '02) and together they moved their feast to Monterey to finish their graduate studies. The Monterey Institute was a catalyst in their meeting and has continued to factor greatly in their interlinked professional lives.
As Pablo explains, "The friendships I made during my time at MIIS opened many doors for me at the start of my career." He adds that the reputation of MIIS further helped jumpstart an amazing career. Pablo's work has led him to travel around the entire world, including interpreting assignments for world-renowned chefs, movie stars, major international sporting events, international organizations, live television broadcasts, and accompanying high level diplomats and world leaders on official visits to foreign countries.
This interpretation power couple recently moved from San Francisco back to Paris, where they work as freelance interpreters while still maintaining their U.S.-based translation and interpretation business. "Now I am the one opening doors for MIIS graduates and that gives me great joy," Pablo says.
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GREENLAND — Cullen Mutrie, the man accused of opening fire on police officers outside his Greenland home this week, believed he was the victim of an illegal police search months earlier, according to court records filed days before the shooting.
Mutrie, 29, was found dead inside the home after a chaotic standoff that lasted hours.
An unidentified woman who was inside the home at 517 Post Road when police arrived to execute a search warrant Thursday evening was also later found dead.
At the time of the shooting, Mutrie was facing four felony drug charges that stemmed from a police action at his home in July 2010. A trial by jury was scheduled to begin later this year.
Two days before the shooting, which left Greenland police chief Michael Maloney dead, officials at the Rockingham Superior Court received a motion from Mutrie's attorney asking the judge to strike all evidence seized from Mutrie's home during the 2010 search.
Stephen Jeffco, Mutrie's attorney, confirmed on Friday his client believed the evidence used against him in court was obtained improperly by local police.
According to the motion to suppress evidence, the search took place on July 24, 2010, following a domestic dispute between Mutrie and his girlfriend. Officers from the Greenland Police Department were dispatched to assist, and upon arriving at Mutrie's home, they arrested Mutrie "without any real investigation" on a simple assault charge, according to the motion.
Mutrie's girlfriend was granted an emergency restraining order while police were still at the scene. An officer then told Mutrie police would need to confiscate his firearms as one of requirements imposed by the restraining order.
In the motion, Mutrie's attorney argued that Mutrie was not afforded the opportunity to relinquish his weapons to police pending his release on bail, and instead, an officer "threatened to kick (Mutrie's) door down," and "keep him in jail," if Mutrie did not consent to a search.
Mutrie then signed a consent form allowing Greenland police to enter his residence and confiscate guns and ammunition, according to the motion, which states his consent was not "free from duress and coercion."
According to court records, police allegedly discovered quantities of the steroids boldenone, nandrolone, trenbolone and stanozolol in Mutrie's possession. He was indicted the following year on the charges, which carry penalties of of 3-1/2 to seven years in prison.
Jeffco said Mutrie was also facing a single assault charge stemming from the 2010 incident.
According to officials in Portsmouth District Court, a drug task force was executing a search warrant at Mutrie's home on Thursday when the shooting took place. The documents associated with the search warrant have been impounded by court officials, according to a court clerk.
The officers involved in the incident were part of the state attorney general's drug task force.
After the officers arrived at about 6 p.m., Mutrie opened fire. Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney was killed and four detectives from other departments were injured. Two remained in intensive care Friday; the other two were treated and released.
Authorities spoke to Mutrie a short time after the shooting from outside the home but things soon went silent, said Attorney General Michael Delaney. Around 2 a.m., a tactical team placed a robot equipped with a video camera in the home, and it detected the bodies. Authorities were still trying to determine when Mutrie and the woman died, but Delaney said they both died of gunshot wounds in either a murder-suicide or double suicide.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
Suspected police killer believed his home had been searched illegally
GREENLAND — Cullen Mutrie, the man accused of opening fire on police officers outside his Greenland home this week, believed he was the victim of an illegal police search months earlier, according to court records filed days before the shooting.


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S&P 500 Posts 8th Rise in a Row
The S&P 500 capped its longest streak of daily gains since 2004, bolstered by better-than-expected earnings from P&G, Halliburton and others. John Shipman reports on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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Amid a nationwide wave of healthcare mergers, a deal was brewing this fall to sell St. John's Health Center, a storied Santa Monica hospital founded by Catholic nuns and befriended by Hollywood stars.
Then, without notice, late last month the hospital's out-of-town owner ousted the top executives, fired most of the directors and thrust into public view a long-simmering debate about the hospital's future.
At the center of it all is Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, a hospital supporter who has committed $100 million to St. John's and already has his name on several buildings there. And, according to people familiar with the matter, his family foundation was poised to help finance the sale of the hospital to a new nonprofit run by a board of local leaders.
In an interview, Soon-Shiong declined to discuss whatever board deliberations occurred. But he said he is committed to putting St. John's back into local hands, and the management shake-up reinforced his view that new ownership is crucial to repair the hospital's relationship with influential doctors and donors.


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In small classes of 20-25, you'll meet students and professors from around the world. Gaining a multicultural perspective is important in today's global economy. That's why our curriculum has a global focus that explores how business practices differ among nations and introduces you to new cultures and economic environments.
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Why you know him: Christopher Camden collapsed just short of the finish line at the Patriots Sprint triathlon at Jamestown Beach Event Park on Sept. 10.
His wife, Dr. Teresa Camden, a sports medicine physician, responded to the call for a medic. As emergency medical personnel worked to revive the fallen runner, Teresa - glancing over her shoulder to see if her husband was approaching the finish line - grabbed the victim's ankles to get blood flowing to his brain. It was only after hearing one of the responders say her husband's name that she realized, to her horror, that Christopher was the unconscious triathlete.
"He was out a full eight minutes - no heartbeat; no breathing," his wife recalled. After being taken to hospitals in Williamsburg and Newport News, he landed at VCU Medical Center, where he underwent a double bypass on Sept. 12.
What's new: Christopher - an Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War who is a teacher's aide at Holman Middle School in Henrico County - was discharged from VCU Medical Center on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 17. That afternoon, he began feeling dizzy.
Teresa got him to lie down, and he passed out. "I saw a light. I then saw a gold cross. I was resuscitated by my wife," he said.
EMT responders rushed him to Henrico Doctors' Hospital. The next day, he was moved to VCU Medical Center, where his chest was reopened and he was treated for internal bleeding, Christopher said. He remained hospitalized until Oct. 5.
Despite his hardships, Christopher - interviewed by telephone as he vacationed with his family in Hawaii - considers himself fortunate.
After all, his initial collapse, occurring near the finish line, meant help was immediately available. And his wife was about to leave the home to fill his prescriptions when he passed out after his release, he said.
"I'm feeling good. ... I am running, although it's a 10- or 11-minute mile pace. I'm slowly but surely building up my cardiovascular endurance all the time," he said.
He has also swam and ridden a bike. "Just knowing I'm able to move about - that's inspiring."
He's still undergoing rehab but feels stronger in other ways. He returned to work at Holman on Nov. 6. When he tells his story, people tend to open up to him about their travails, or that of family members.
He believes his story "can give them hope, inspiration and encouragement. It's just been very enlightening. I believe the Lord is working in my life."
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