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Welcome to the Wayne LEADS website. We are excited to provide you with tools, tips and information so you can successfully navigate through the performance management process. On the left margin there are links to different types of information that you can easily access as you proceed through the process.
If you are unsure what Wayne LEADS is, please check out the Overview. We also have included an FAQ which should help new and veteran employees understand the different aspects of the process.
Wayne LEADS Form for Performance Year 2013
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Christian Slater's got a second chance at breaking in with the TV audience.
Slater's comedy "Breaking In" – which he plays the head of a high-tech security firm staffed by an off-kilter crew of geniuses and ex-theives who test security systems for anxious clients – bowed on Fox last April for a seven-episode stint, but its on-the-bubble ratings led to cancellation – and then a surprise renewal just two days later. Slater tells PopcornBiz about the show's unexpected return, this time with its own form of security: guaranteed laugh-getter Megan Mullally.
On the surprise renewal of the series:
I just decided to relocate to Miami, so typically that's usually how things happen: as soon as you move away from the place where they're actually going to shoot the show, that's when they decide to bring it back, which I thought was adorable. I was super-grateful, super-thrilled, and I really was extraordinarily passionate about it. I was incredibly surprised. Because I'd done a few shows before, I kind of felt like Goldilocks, you know: trying on different outfits and different places, like NBC was just a little too this, and ABC was just a little too that, and FOX felt just right, and it was all going along great. Now I've kind of determined that I'm a little bit more like Tinkerbell. It's like when Tinkerbell was dying and Peter Pan was like saying "Do you believe in fairies? Do you believe in fairies?" And everybody in the audience was like, "Yes, I do believe. I do believe." And that's sort of how I feel about the show.
On taking the show to the next level for Season Two:
I know that FOX has no problem with the humorous elements of the show. They're totally into that. It's all good. We've got a great cast, and now I think the foundation and the chemistry is there and we really need to get more invested in the characters and who they really are. I think make Oz a little bit less of a puppet master and little bit more of a human being, an identifiable human being. Last year he was so sort of supernatural in way, and always knew what the outcomes were going to be. That gets a little bit predictable. So now that Megan Mullally is there, we've got a good foil so the idea is to just have a nice face off with each other.
On how quickly the chemistry clicked with Mullally:
Really from the moment that she sat down, honest to God. I just loved her. She's great. She's a wonderful actress. She brings so much to it that I just sat back and started kind of rolling as she was making all the jokes. She just has great instincts.
On why he hopes audiences embrace "Breaking In" the second time around:
To get this opportunity, for me to have the network give us this opportunity to be able to come back and give us 13 episodes to continue to zig and zag with the characters is like a dream come true. The bottom line is, man, that I want to be on a show long enough to the point where I'm like, 'Get me out of here.' I would like to have that just to see how it feels. I want that experience. Is that so much to ask?
"Breaking In" returns tonight at 9:30 PM ET on FOX


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Vintage Austin
Season 21 Episode 21 | 52m 28s
See memorable finds appraised at ROADSHOW 17 years ago. Highlights include an H. Siddons Mowbray painting, an 1802 Meriwether Lewis commission, and Marilyn Monroe photos from 1953. Learn which item's updated appraisal has $165,000 added to the value.
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Appraisal: Alfred de Breanski Sr. Oil Painting, ca. 1870
Appraisal: Alfred de Breanski Sr. Oil Painting, ca. 1870, from Atlanta Hour 2.
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THE TOUGH CUSTOMER- Focus pocus: Information fuzzes at the DMV
I rarely write about my own consumer experiences, which usually are not particularly interesting. But a couple of incidents over the last several weeks amused and frustrated me. First was my driver's license renewal.
I wear glasses, but my eyesight is not that bad. My glasses let me to see a bit farther with greater clarity, but I'm able to get along fine without them. Indeed, I frequently forget to wear them.
So when I took the vision test to renew my license, I did it without my glasses so my license would not contain an eyeglasses restriction. I passed the test.
As I slipped my glasses back on at the DMV window, however, the clerk asked if I wanted the eyeglasses restriction on my license anyway. I was confused. Why would I want this? I specifically took the test without them to avoid this restriction.
"If you get stopped wearing them," the clerk explained, "and it's not on your license, you'll get a ticket."
"You mean I could get a ticket for wearing glasses while driving?" I asked.
"That's ridiculous," I said. I left the restriction off.
Even though it made no sense, it wouldn't be the first time a state passed an illogical law. So, I figured I'd check with the police.
There was a long pause on the other end of the phone when I asked Sgt. Tito Durrette of the Charlottesville Police Department about it. I got the impression he thought it was a trick question-– could there actually be a law so dumb? Or maybe he just couldn't believe what he was hearing.
But he recovered.
"I can tell you that a police officer would not ticket you for wearing glasses," he finally said.
For the record, I could find nothing in the Virginia's driver license laws to prohibit wearing eyeglasses if your license does not require it.
The other incident involved trying to change my home phone service from Embarq to Comcast while keeping my same phone number.
That seems like it should be a snap, with or without my glasses, but it proved unexpectedly difficult.
Comcast was happy to sign me up for their new digital phone service and said my new service would be installed sometime the morning of June 12. Keeping my existing number, they said, would not be a problem.
But Comcast didn't show up on June 12. When I called, they said they didn't show because Embarq would not release my number to them, so there was nothing to install.
That didn't explain their blowing me off, but I forged ahead. Embarq told me that Comcast had never requested that the number be switched. I didn't know what to think.
But the Comcast deal was a good one, so warily I set everything up anew. Two weeks later, when a Comcast truck pulled into my driveway right on time, I was glad I did.
Unfortunately, Comcast was there to upgrade my television service. The guy knew nothing about my telephone.
Another round of calls revealed Comcast did not create a service order for telephone installation because Embarq again refused to release my number.
Embarq told me, again, that Comcast had never requested the switch.
So I went to the Comcast office personally. After several hours, it came to light that while both accounts were in my wife's name, the Comcast account used her actual name, Nancy, while the Embarq account used only her initial, N. This discrepancy was causing all kinds of disconnects.
Comcast sent someone to my house to with an authorization form they said would solve the problem. I signed it. They called the next day, however, to say both my wife and I would have to come to Comcast's offices with identification to get our number switched.
At that point, I just threw my hands up.
Vernon Fraley, a regional media relations manager for Embarq, was sympathetic. He said switching a phone number to a new provider is typically a simple matter, but because of fears about privacy invasion and identity theft, situations like mine, when account information does not match exactly, can get complicated.
Despite everything, he said, Embarq really wants to keep me as a customer.
He needn't worry.
They won't let me go.
Got a consumer situation? Call the Hook newsroom at 434-295-8700x405 or e-mail the Tough Customer directly.


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The title of this post is a direct quote from a young gentleman charged with law enforcement and the protection of citizens and animals alike due to the position and responsibilities that position entails.
Rather says it all does it not??
Canada, the golden land of opportunity, welcoming with open arms all manner of newcomers, be they individuals looking to provide better lives for their families, or foreign investments looking to make a profit on the backs of our environment, our fresh water resources and our vast untapped mineral resources. Welcome….
Sarcastic remark…yes admittedly.
Canada, a land where the exploitation, suffering and lack of proper Federal Legislation, allows for horrendous Factory Farms, the continued unabated suffering in puppy mills, kitten mills, horse slaughter, the failure to protect domestic animals, strays, ferals..my gosh you name it…
Every year the Animal Legal Defense Fund issues it's annual report naming the Best and the Worst places for an animal to live, based on the Provincial/Territorial Animal Protection Legislation in place. It would be safe to possibly conclude that reported cases of animal cruelty, the consequences faced by the perpetrator of such horrors and the overall outcome of Judicial proceedings may/may not also be taken into account. Afterall, as I have stated far too often to count…laws are not worth the paper they are written upon if they are not stringently enforced and justice for the animal victims is obtained.
Note that you may download your own copy of the ALDF Report by visiting their site, it is a one time free download which is updated yearly.
Here's the full ranking list: as of the report issued in 2010 and 2011. You will note that very little has changed. The NWT and Nunavut were tied as the Best Place to Abuse Animals in 2010. However with the victorious three year battle for animal protection in the NWT, seeing the new NWT Dog Act come into effect in May 2011 (still only pertains to dogs) the NWT moved from Worst to now rank No. 11 in the Bottom Tier. Nunavut is now the Best Place to Abuse Animals and Alberta and Quebec also have remained stagnant in the Bottom Tier.
Quebec has moved down a notch ranking at number 11 now. Congrats to Quebec….which brings us to the issue of Berger Blanc in Montreal.
For years Montrealers have been loudly protesting the horrific cruelty that animals are subjected to thanks to Berger Blanc. Are they being listened to?? Obviously not at all. The horrors continue without consequence.
Just what will it take to SHUT DOWN Berger Blanc???????? What will it take for the taxpayed politicians in Montreal who hold their positions/jobs and lifestyles to come clean and do the right thing and meet the demands of the Montrealers to shut this operation of gross horrors down?????
Will it take International Scrutiny? Will it take the shining light of NEGATIVITY, the Public Humiliation and the Pointing of Global Fingers and Protest before the powers that be in Montreal do something????? It certainly seems that way. Will it take the NEGATIVE effect such publicity can have on needed TOURISM, and subsequent retail and hospitality industry losses before the Powers that BE wake up and 'get it'???
Unfortunately that is exactly what it sometimes takes. The NEGATIVE spotlight that shone so brightly on the NWT (Northwest Territories) for over three years drew Global as well as North American attention. Emails, comments, loud voices from around the world played a very large part in bringing about much needed positive change here. The support from large Canadian Animal Advocate Groups, that took a stance, submitted their own letters and critiques to the Territorial Government in support of the Legislative changes, the documented and pictorial evidence which I prepared and submitted on a regular basis, the countless study papers on the LINK between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence which I also submitted and the needed support from NWT residents….all of it played a huge role in winning, for the first time in NWT history, protection for dogs up here.
So if the same must be done to enable the caring, responsible pet lovers and owners in Montreal to be heard…to have For Profit Berger Blanc……scrutinized and pointed at by Global fingers…..if it must take a Global protest to end the horrors these innocent animals endure at the hands of Berger Blanc…….then So Be It.
Berger Blanc is a shining example of inadequate Provincial Legislation to Protect Animals. Berger Blanc is a perfect example of the archaic, inadequate Canadian Federal Animal Protection Legislation that permeates this country and allows such operations to exist.
In a joint effort with Quebec contacts, more information concerning this appalling, disgusting, intolerable, inhumane, irresponsible, unacceptable situation will be exposed on a grand scale to the International/Global community.
UNITED we made a positive difference in the Northwest Territories, UNITED we can make a positive difference in Montreal and Quebec period!!
A year since Berger Blanc Cruelty
"On Thursday April 21 at 20:00 Radio Canada's investigative program Enquête presents a disturbing exposé of Berger Blanc, the for-profit business entrusted with control of, and care for, Montréal's exploding population of unwanted companion animals, a population which has now reached crisis proportions. This program, Mauvais Berger, exposes Berger Blanc's abysmal standards of animal care and customer service, and lack of promotion of responsible pet ownership.
The images and issues addressed in Mauvais Berger invite a wider consideration of how this for-profit business, unrestrained by weak municipal by-laws, inadequate provincial legislation or effective monitoring, thrives on an ever-expanding supply of abandoned animals. Berger Blancs' disregard of this fundamental problem of overpopulation ensures a constant flow of 'clients', and hence its own financial advancement.
Further, a lack of insistence on rigorous contractual accountability by the municipalities who deal with Berger Blanc aggravates this disgraceful situation. Neither the treatment and ultimate fate of the more than 30,000 animals transiting annually through the Berger Blanc (with sky-high euthanasia rates), nor the exact use of taxpayers' cash, appear to be of significant concern for any of those associated with this scandalous enterprise."
The last protest of 2011 organized by SPA Canada
Excerpt: "More than six months ago, the Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) Canada declared war on pounds thanks to an undercover operation that took place at the Animal Control facility under the name of Berger Blanc. "
TIER STANDINGS IN 2011 (note 2012 standings have yet to be published)
2011 Canadian Animal Protection Laws Rankings
Comparing Overall Strength & Comprehensiveness
Top Tier:
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2. Manitoba
3. New Brunswick
4. Nova Scotia
Middle Tier:
|5. Saskatchewan
6. Yukon
7. British Columbia
8. Prince Edward Island
9. Newfoundland & Labrador
Bottom Tier:
|10. Alberta
11. Northwest Territories
12. Quebec
13. Nunavut
Top Tier:
- 1. Ontario
- 2. Nova Scotia
- 3. Manitoba
- 4. New Brunswick
Middle Tier:
- 5. Yukon
- 6. British Columbia
- 7. Saskatchewan
- 8. Prince Edward Island
- 9. Newfoundland and Labrador
Bottom Tier:
- 10. Alberta
- 11. Quebec
- 12. Northwest Territories, Nunavut (tie)


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Work out regularly? Eat dairy, which contains casein, the optimal protein to prevent muscle breakdown, and whey, which helps promote muscle growth. Whole milk, yogurt, and cheese are high in saturated fat and cholesterol, so opt for 1 percent or skim, and low-fat or non-fat yogurt. Look for reduced-fat varieties of cow and goat cheeses, and stick to one ounce – about the size of two nine-volt batteries. Choose nonfat Greek-style yogurt, which has 18 grams and a consistently high dose of probiotics to help promote digestion and gut health. A six-ounce container of plain, low-fat yogurt has only 9 grams of protein and, on average, fewer probiotics. Protein power: Excellent.
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The new codes will work from this month.
Already I find this annoying and I hope that mobile phone networks would just automatically update the numbers when we call because I can't imagine editing all the numbers in my contacts list !!
they are adding a number because they are running out of numbers, they have been working on this project for almost 2 years.ReplyDelete
One word: retarded.
Here in Finland one's phone number stays exact same even if changing operator. There used to be mandatory prefix per operator, but for once consumers won and now one practically never need to change phone number.
Same in the UK(and most of Europe these days), I've had only one mobile number over the years going from monthly contract with vodafone to prepaid with T-mobile for many years, then changing 5 years ago to Three mobile. Never needed to change my number once, and that's how it should be for all.Delete
The question is, for the 015 old code which is common among the 3 operators, how can I decide which new code to use?!!ReplyDelete
More info:
- 015 is already 8 numbers, it will not be updated.
- Mobile operators will have transition phase, dialing old number will just work find. but this will be for just about 2 months.
for android phones users there is an app to update the numbers to the new format
How to Mass update your contacts' numbers
Why is everything has to be so irritated in Egypt? If they are running out of numbers which I don't find it a good reason for adding another number. Why do they have to change all the current numbers?ReplyDelete
i made an excel program that can easily convert old mobile number format to new formats just follow the easy steps. This will save you a lot of time changing long list of contact list on your mobile one by one. The program is not Free it cost 5 EGP i will shortly tell you how to pay me so i can send you the link to download the program
Thank u for making it more complicated, what else u going to do to the great people of EgyptReplyDelete
I found a lost iPhone 5s and it reads: "This iPhone has been lost. Please call me. 02031220089". If you know this number or know the owner, please email firstname.lastname@example.com
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I'm getting back into using the Touchstream after 7 years of using an MS4000 with DVORAK. At first I wasn't sure that it was going to be possible. Then, I realized that I had gotten lazy with my typing. Once I had started using the proper fingers for each letter every time things became much easier. Nonetheless there are some serious flaws to the system as it stands.
I would like to start a brainstorming session to see if we can think of any way to add something to the system to give our hands or fingers a way of identifying 'drift'. If we can do that there's a chance that I'll be able to return to above 100wpm levels. Currently, I'm at something like 25wpm and that's ignoring the kind of navigation that I have to do as a programmer.
For a start I'm thinking that hovering your fingers over the touchstream is the appropriate way to type with any speed. Resting your palms just doesn't seem to allow the necessary mobility.
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In the last few months, I've been working with Jekyll, a light-weight, Ruby-based, and Markdown-friendly framework for creating static blogs and sites right in your favorite text editor, so I wrote a guest post, "Introducing Jekyll" on the new UW-Madison Devblog. Check it out!
Hadoop, MapReduce and processing large Twitter datasets for fun and profit
I'm back in school for my PhD, and getting ready to conduct research on a HUGE Twitter dataset on the US 2012 presidential election collected by the Social Media and Democracy research team at UW-Madison. We've been brushing up on Python, Hadoop and MapReduce. As part of our training, Alex Hanna, a sociology PhD student at UW-Madison, put together an excellent series of workshops on Twitter (or, as he's aptly named them, "Tworkshops") to get us started. Check them out!
Essential Responsive Web Design Testing Tools
A list of Responsive Web Design testing tools you need to try out and bookmark/fave/tweet right NOW!
[Slideshow] – Responsive Web Design: How the mobile web has changed the way we think and work.
On April 16th, Nick Weaver (@nickweaver) and I gave a presentation at the Madison Web Design & Dev Meetup titled "Responsive Web Design: How the mobile web has changed the way we think and work." Here's the slideshow of the presentation for your enjoyment!
WordPress: How to display posts within a page
We have all been there: for some reason, you really need to display a list of posts within a page in WordPress (and the list needs to be paginated, of course). Fortunately, there's an easy way to do it.
Optimizing your web application: Mobile UI performance considerations
In her article "Mobile UI performance considerations," Estelle Weyl addresses memory and battery considerations when developing web applications for mobile devices. From embedding CSS and JavaScript into your HTML file (GASP!!!) on first load (and storing the code using localStorage), to minding the DOM and what you CAN'T see in the viewport of a mobile phone, this article is full of great ideas. A must read.
"When can I use…": a CSS compatibility reference
Ever wonder when you can use the CSS rule inline-block, or PNG transparency, and what browsers supported? http://caniuse.com/ has a cool list of these and other rules!
Lesson learned: modifying your permalink structure WILL mess up your traffic data
A small change made to my site's permalink structure spells DOOM (well, not really, but was pretty annoying =0 ).
WordPress: how to automatically convert custom fields to post tags
Convert your post's custom fields into tags automatically in WordPress with this nifty script!!!
Testing Twitterfeed…
I'm letting Twitterfeed.com do the leg work… let's see how it works =)
Web Dev tool of the week: JSFiddle.net
JSFliddle.net is a dream come true: a simple, free testing environment for your HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Perfect for sharing live examples of your code. Highly recommended!
Extend RSS2: a plugin to enhance your WordPress default RSS2 feed
Add thumbnails and custom-field data to your RSS2 feed!
New WordPress plugins available!
As part of my job, I have developed a few plugins to help in the development of sites, so more people can benefit from what was produced during hours and hours of development. Hopefully you'll find them useful too. Here are a few of them!
How to add the excerpt box for pages in WordPress
Here's how to enable the "excerpt" box for your WordPress pages.
WordPress: How to run PHP scripts only when logged in as admin
Here's a new tiny function that will help you run PHP code in WordPress only when you (or other admin-level users) are logged in.
Lesson learned: You can't access DOM elements within an external iFrame
That's right, you CAN'T!
How to use CSS sprites to create custom bullets in HTML
The list-image CSS property can get you far when you want to create custom bullets in HTML, but what about performance? CSS Sprites are a great way to reduce the amount of images you need to use to customize your lists.
PHP – Safely serialize and unserialze arrays
Serializing arrays in PHP is a great way to format their content before storing it in a database. However, if the serialized content has certain characters (such as ";" or ":") the resulting string won't be read correctly by the unserialize() function, which is a huge bummer. So, here's a workaround. http://davidwalsh.name/php-serialize-unserialize-issues
My response to Stackoverflow's ""invalid label" Firebug error with jQuery getJSON" question
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The Bureau of Industry and Security
Cosponsored by: Professional Association of Exporters and Importers
"Encryption Controls"
September 11, 2014
Milpitas, California
This full day program is an in-depth session that will focus on the unique provisions related to encryption under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) licensing officers will cover a variety of topics, including Note 4 to Category 5, Part 2, various decontrols, encryption mass market provision (742.15), License Exception ENC (740.17), publicly available, encryption licensing, and foreign products developed from U.S. origin encryption parts and components. Presenters will be available for Q&A the afternoon of the program to address specific questions of attendees.
Continuing legal education credit (MCLE) is available, and varies with the length of each seminar, for California State Bar members.
About the Instructors
The instructors are experienced export policy specialists, and enforcement personnel from BIS's field offices, as well as representatives from other U.S. government agencies, as appropriate. The instructors will be available throughout the seminar to answer your questions on how the export regulations affect the export activities of your organization or client.
The program will be held at the Crowne Plaza San Jose-Silicon Valley, 777 Bellew Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035. Registration and continental breakfast begins at 7:30am. The program begins at 8:30am and ends at 4:30pm.
Please make your reservations directly with the hotel by calling (888) 233-9527 or click here to register online. Mention the group name "Professional Association of Exporters and Importers" to receive the special conference rate of $185.00. Complimentary shuttle transportation to and from the San Jose International Airport and complimentary parking at the Crowne Plaza Hotel is available.
For more information or questions on the topics to be covered, please call the BIS Western Regional Office at (949) 660-0144 or (408) 998-8806 or by email.


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We've mentioned Namco Bandai's Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy briefly during the launch of the new iPad, but we never got around to featuring it as a Gaming App of the Day. I don't know about everyone else, but for me this was because I was too busy playing Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy.
This is console-quality air combat in portable form offering more options and gameplay for $5.49 than most console games in the genre deliver for $90. It's got a lengthy singleplayer story mode, dogfight missions and five different online multiplayer modes (for up to 10 players thanks to a recent update). At any given moment I can pick up my iPhone 4s or iPad 3 (that's what I'm calling it, dammit) and within seconds I am engaged with players from across the country, dodging their missiles while taking them down with my trusty P51's machine guns.
There are dozens of planes to unlock, with more coming via regular updates. Each handles like a dream no matter which of the four control modes you select, from full-on simulator to the more casual control pad options.
And the graphics? Well the graphics are certainly impressive, especially on Apple's newest devices, where it's optimised with 4x anisotropic filtering, refractive raindrops, radial blur, and other buzz-words that mean it looks pretty.
Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy has gotten plenty of praise for the way it looks, but it's the way it plays that's the real triumph here. It's like a portal Ace Combat game, only without all the disappointment.
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Nationals fans had high hopes that the Pope Benedict XVI might leave behind some holy mojo for the home team after presiding over mass at Nationals Park just a few days ago.
Sadly, Teddy Roosevelt wasn't feeling it either, as Abraham Lincoln kicked off the homestand by moving into a tie with Thomas Jefferson for the season lead in the presidents race.
Worst of all was the presence of a vocal minority of Mets fans at Nationals Park — the first time we've heard such a heavy rooting contingent for the visiting team since our new stadium opened.
I suppose I shouldn't complain too loudly since I'll be at Verizon Center for the Wizards playoff game on Thursday night, but it sure would be nice if tomorrow's crowd at Nationals Park was a little more vocal in support of Shawn Hill. Cheer for Teddy(!), and I'll see you in section 128 for Friday night's game against the Cubs.
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Serving the Bexar County community through its programs and services that help students succeed in acquiring the knowledge and skills needed in today's world. Today, five colleges fulfill this promise with a vast array of courses and 2-year degrees.
Northeast Bexar County
Est. 2007
Serving more than 6,000 students from the ten Metrocom Communities and northeast San Antonio. Named "Best Institutional Facility" by Live Oak Economic Development.
Northwest San Antonio
Est. 1995
Creating opportunites for success by offering quality academic, technical and life-long learning experiences to its diverse communities in a collaborative, student-centered, data-informed and shared leadership environment.
South San Antonio
Est. 1985
Top 10 finalist for the 2019 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation's signature recognition of high achievement and performance in America's community colleges.
East and Southwest
San Antonio
Est. 1898
A comprehensive public community college whose mission is to empower our diverse student population through educational achievement and career readiness.
Est. 1925
San Antonio College is named in the top 150 community colleges in the nation by Aspen Institute, and is ranked among the Top 10 colleges for Hispanics by Hispanic Outlook Magazine.
The Alamo Colleges District serves the Bexar County community through its programs and services that help students succeed in acquiring the knowledge and skills needed in today's world.
The Alamo Colleges District and its five colleges have over 500 program offerings.
The Alamo Colleges encourages students to pursue an education beyond high school and welcome all students to attend.
Students are taught by highly qualified faculty with Master's and doctorate degrees dedicated to creating a learning centered environment.
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The courses in this section meet the requirements for an Associate of Arts degree. The Graduation section in any catalog of the colleges in the Alamo Colleges District lists additional Degree/Certificate Requirements.
This Transfer Advising Guide provides 68 college-level hours, of which 67 will transfer and apply, as 1 SCH of EDUC 1300 will transfer, but will NOT be applicable towards Texas A&M University-Kingsville baccalaureate degree in Agriculture Science - General Agriculture.
Note: Texas A&M University-Kingsville does not have a maximum number of college-level transfer hours accepted towards a baccalaureate degree. Students must complete the specified number of advanced credits and credits in residence for their degrees.
Note: For the Alamo Colleges District this transfer advising guide is degree complete but is NOT core complete.
The Transfer Excellence Scholarship is awarded to students who transfer to Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) with at least a 3.0 transfer GPA. To receive this award, students must also have completed 15 or more semester credit hours from a regionally accredited institution and must enroll at TAMUK full-time. This scholarship is renewable for students who maintain a 3.0 GPA and complete 30 semester credit hours each year.
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SOX: New rules for year two
What does it cost to make SOX controls visible? What about in real time? Find out what CIOs learned from round one of SOX fun.
AMR Research analyst John Hagerty has three words of advice for executives grappling with compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: repeatable, sustainable and cost-effective.
"SOX is not going to go away like Y2K. It's here to stay," Hagerty said.
About half of the companies Hagerty deals with still view SOX compliance as just another tactical project. "SOX is a process, not a project, and you have to plan for it."
"People will always be involved in a compliance process like this, but you don't want to have it be intrusive or taking away from day-to-day work," Hagerty said.
The repeatable factor: Got LANs?
In addition to reducing employee time, automated testing of controls enables companies to stop bad things from happening as they occur, not after the fact. To do this, companies can embed testing of internal controls right into the business processes themselves, or deploy a LAN that sits outside the business process to verify controls, but the goal should be the same: continuous monitoring in real time.
"You want a constant feedback loop, so people can understand how what they just did wrong caused problems, and, as important, how they can re-train themselves to do it the right way," Hagerty said.
To make SOX compliance sustainable, the issue needs to be "front and center" in the company through the use of portals, dashboards and/or scorecards. "Executives especially like this because they can understand at a moment's notice where they have problems or gaps in controls and whether they are able to attest to the company's financials on quarterly basis." AMR estimates that making SOX visible will cost a company between $50,000 to $250,000, depending on its size and scope.
Follow the money
Finally, to not go broke, companies need to make SOX compliance cost-effective by staying the course -- a mindset that does not come naturally to the task-oriented.
"As people started to plan for their year activities, it was interesting how many thought they had to throw out what they did last year and start over. Our advice is that if you are satisfied with what you did last year -- and I would say 99 out 100 companies are -- you want to automate, not replace," Hagerty said. That gets back to investing in technology. Successful companies are spending more now to gain more in the future, looking at SOX much like a Six Sigma process, Hagerty said. "By automating the testing of some of these internal controls, you will reduce the cost of compliance by upward of 25%, and we think that is actually pretty conservative."
All these strategies essentially are based on one philosophy: Build compliance requirements and processes into the foundation of how you run you're your business. This is easier said than done. Many companies have told Hagerty they were so burnt out by their first year of SOX compliance, they gave their SOX team three months off, from January to March.
"Like anybody else who has been off a project for a couple of months, it's difficult to re-engage," he said. One of the ways companies can get around "organization fatigue," is to bring fresh people on the team, thus getting more people invested and avoiding the bullwhip effect.
At Iron Mountain, the records storage company that made news of its own this year when customer data was accidentally lost in transit, chief accounting officer Jean Bua is among those who see SOX as a positive force. "It's all about doing the right work at the right time," she said.
Year two lessons
As Iron Mountain enters year two, it has taken several steps to turn SOX compliance into a process, Bua said. "Last year this was obviously more of a project to get done. This year we have created essentially a Sarbox office, with five positions dedicated to it, including two people from within and three new hires," Bua said.
The goal is to take the controls implemented for Sarbox compliance and move them through the business, holding business people accountable at the point where the controls begin. Last year, Bua's department did much of the work themselves. "Now we're trying to integrate the controls at the business source. The company is "adding value" by automating as much of the manual processes as possible, spotting where the risks were and making sure the risks are covered. It is also monitoring the controls that were put in place late in the year to meet compliance, to make sure they continue to mature rather than function as a one shot deal.
Iron Mountain has designed a communication plan that alerts the SOX office when a key person has left or a business process changed, to ensure that compliance is maintained on a continuous basis. As a result, Bua said, the company expects to reduce its domestic SOX compliance costs by 25% in 2005 and its European operations by 50%.
Let us know what you think about the story; email: Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer


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I was a total twit.
After a few months, I closed my account and decided I wasn't destined to tweet. A few months ago, some of my fellow highway girls convinced me to try it again, and I did. And I'm so glad. The writing community is just as helpful and supportive on Twitter as they are on forums and on their blogs, and I really enjoy being a part of it.
There are a few faux pas – Twitter Transgressions, if you will – that I have noticed. A few types of tweeple that use and abuse tweeting and their followers just a tiny bit. Who are these tweeple? Allow me to introduce you.
One who tweets dozens of times daily reminding followers that one is having a contest and/or is nearing a certain number of followers and will be holding a contest as soon as that number is reached.
Sample Tweets:
@ChosenOne 21 MORE DA MEMBERS AND I'LL SIGN MY BALL FOR YOU!!!
@ChosenOne Have you signed up yet? We still need 20 more DA members - prizes prizes prizes!
@ChosenOne Come on, seriously you guys. Just 20 more. Did I mention my broomstick's a Firebolt and it's, like, really fast?
@ChosenOne @Hot_Gin Not funny. :(
@ChosenOne Almost 200 DA members!!! I know some of you still haven't signed up. Come one, it's like you guys want @MugglesSuck to win or something...LOL (plz RT)
Nothing wrong with contests, nothing wrong with followers. But the redundant brute force tactic of slamming those already following with tweet after tweet after mother-lovin' tweet of contest reminders and follower number updates? The people subjected to this are already following, and if they're going to enter, one tweet was enough to convince them.
2. The RT Reflector
One who retweets every retweet of themselves, leading to a mirror-in-a-mirror effect that subjects followers to the mind-numbing experience of reading a single tweet several times for no real reason.
Sample Tweets:
@UnconsecRatedR GO TO BEACH THRU FOREST LOL RT: @MaryMary Seriously. A day at the beach. Is that too much to ask?
@MaryMary LOL You wish! RT @UnconsecRatedR GO TO BEACH THRU FOREST HA RT: @MaryMary Seriously. A day at the beach. Is that too much to ask?
@UnconsecRatedR BUT REALLY DO IT NOMNOM RT @MaryMary LOL You wish! RT @UnconsecRatedR GO TO BEACH THRU FOREST HA RT: @MaryMary Seriously. A day at the beach.
@MaryMary Silly thing. ;) RT @UnconsecRatedR NOMNOM @MaryMary You wish! RT @UnconsecRatedR GO THRU FOREST HA RT: @MaryMary Seriously, a day at the beach.
What the Reflector doesn't seem to understand, or understands but chooses to ignore, is that replying and retweeting are two separate functions. If followers want to see what the tweet is in response to, it's a simple click. But this is a misguided tactic for self-promotion that backfires and eventually makes me feel like I'm looking into some sort of Escher-like pit of RT despair.
(It must also be acknowledged that when this gets really out of hand, two parties are to blame. But suffice it to say that RTing yourself even once, fun as it sounds, is not attractive.)
3. The Passive Aggressive Pissant
One who tweets an angry message that is obviously aimed at a specific individual about a specific incident but is supposed to be understood as a general statement.
Sample Tweet:
@SparkleMePretty You know what I effing hate? Dogs who can't go more than 30 seconds without ripping off their shirt. Just sayin'. #steroidsshrinkyourjunk
Ah, the P.A. Pissant. Facebook is like a dirt hill filled with these darlings too. The frustrating thing is that chances are the person in question probably won't see the tweet, and if they do, they won't even know it's about them. Meanwhile, all of Pissant's other followers are left thinking one of three things: "God, I hope it's not me," "Ugh, Pissant is passively pissy again," or "....WTF does that even mean?"
4. The Follower Effer
One who #ffs each and every individual they're following in a series of mindsploding tweets every single Friday.
Sample Tweets:
@KillerKat Love you guys! (Still gonna kill you, LOL) @LuckyClove @onthethresh @AllThatGlimmers @BrutalBrut @Win_Finn @BTBabe @PrezSnowflake #ff
@KillerKat @G_Hawt What? Don't get all pissy. I #ffed you first last Friday.
@KillerKat @Dist1Boy @Dist1Girl @Dist2Boy@Dist2Girl @Dist3Boy @Dist3Girl @Dist4Boy @Dist4Girl @Dist5Boy @Dist5Girl @Dist6Boy @Dist6Girl #ff
@KillerKat @Dist7Boy @Dist7Girl @Dist8Boy@Dist8Girl @Dist9Boy @Dist9Girl @Dist10Boy @Dist10Girl @Dist11Boy @Dist11Girl #ff
And so on. Follow Friday is a fantastic thing, really. A tweet or two every Friday to share a few people that are your speshul snowflakes of the week. But seriously. Seeing pages like this really #ffs with my head.
5. The Condescending Monarch
All of the above are totally forgivable offenses. It happens. But this one...in the land of Mi_Schu, this is grounds for instant and eternal exile.
One who addresses one's followers as if they are one's mindless minions by speaking to them as a group in a manner reflective of how one might speak to a newly hatched flock of chicks.
(The last part of this definition is what matters. I see nothing wrong with someone addressing all of their followers with a question, or to share an anecdote, or just as a general greeting. But the Condescending Monarch is under the delusion that addressing a few hundred Twitter followers puts one in the position of Saruman at the top of the tower of Isengard calling his cuddly widdle orcs to action.)
Sample Tweet:
@FUTreebeard: Good morning my sweets! *pats orcys on head* I'm taking you all to Uncle Sauron's today! *puts orcys in basket* *skips to Mordor*
Right. Let's be clear on this; while I understand that one might get a huge rush out of having 100, 200, 500, 1,000 followers - 1,000 people want to know I just ate a pickle and now have pickle breath ZOMG! - "followers" aren't actually "sycophants." (Well...in the traditional sense of the word, they are, but Twitter followers are not.) We're all just people connecting with people we know and others we don't. And if a twit pats me on the head or slaps me on the...cheek (without my permission or request), then that is quite simply the end of our tweelationship.
I've missed a few here that are big no-no's for writers, like carrying on what is obviously a private conversation without moving to DMs, or tweeting someone to ask for a favor so they're pressured into saying yes rather than look like a meanie in front of all the watchful followers. What other tweeting transgressions can you give me?


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Graham to Obama: Up your game
President Barack Obama needs to "up his game" with his strategy in Syria, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday.
In an interview on CNN's "New Day," the South Carolina Republican addressed the president's plan of seeking congressional authorization for intervention in Syria.
"There's a lot at stake in Syria and the president, above all others, needs to up his game," the senator told CNN's Kate Bolduan.
( PHOTOS: Syria: Where politicians stand)
Graham added that if the president "doesn't engage and persuade the American people, this vote is going to be too close to call right now." He also echoed the frustration Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) expressed earlier on the president's timing of seeking authorization after stating the use of chemical weapons would be the red line.
"Well, this is about the most mismanaged situation I've ever seen since World War II when they were trying to to control the Nazis. I just — this is bizarre. We're going, we're not going, we don't need Congress, yes we do," Graham said.
Graham, who met with Obama on Monday, expressed the dangers should no action be taken in the region, including potential war between Israel and Iran over nuclear programs and his previous calls for action in Syria.
"If you'd done what Sen. McCain and I said two years ago, there would not have been thousands of Al Qaeda members in Syria, Assad would've been gone a long time ago and be moving forward. But if this war goes on a year from now, you're going to have tens of thousands of Al Qaeda."
( PHOTOS: International response to Syria)
Graham, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, acknowledged that this would be a "tough vote" for members and that there are "plenty of differences with the president on the Republican side," but asked for cooperation to find a common ground.
"Let's see if we can come up with a strategy that has a chance of working. A military strike to degrade Assad, upgrading the rebel opposition forces, regional players help carrying some of the burden makes sense to me. This is all bad options, but that option to me has a chance of working."


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Faster and dramatically more power-efficient than rotating magnetic media, solid-state disks (SSDs) are one of the longest-awaited and most eagerly anticipated technologies in the past two decades of computing. The theoretical underpinnings of mass storage with no moving parts have been with us for decades, but the improvements that have put solid-state in economic and technological reach of ever larger segments of the storage market have been slow in coming. As the tipping point draws nearer with ever-increasing momentum, let's take a look back at the long journey to the practical SSD, and a look forward at the likely future progress of this technology.
A brief history of flash memory
Solid-state memory has been around since very nearly the beginning of computing, but a great many of the details have changed since that earlier time when ferrous ring memory was programmed with copper coils. The first nonvolatile semiconductor memory technology even theoretically suitable for use as a disk was Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), invented by Intel in 1978. Using floating-gate transistors to store bits of information, and with specific read, write, and erase circuitry for each cell, EEPROM achieved roughly the read performance of RAM with no volatility and the ability to be rewritten many times. It could, in theory, with the right device engineering, have been used as main storage for a PC.
There were serious problems, though: EEPROM was slow, it was expensive, it was power-consuming, and it was not durable. Erasing and rewriting bytes of EEPROM can individually take milliseconds (most of this time taken by the erase operation), so the full system wouldn't have been much faster than a hard disk. Moreover, over 2,500 of Intel's initial EEPROM module, the 2KB 2816, would have been required to match Seagate's 1980 5MB ST506, at a cost of many tens of thousands of dollars next to the ST506's $1500. Such an EEPROM proto-SSD would consume about 1.5 kW of electricity while under a full writing load, about a hundred times the consumption of the hard disk. Individual bits of EEPROM would burn out after about ten thousand write-erase cycles, which could be done to the entire disk in as little as three days of continuous writing. For these reasons, among many more, the idea of an EEPROM SSD was never even floated.
The next new technology to come down the pike, invented by Toshiba in 1980, announced in 1984, and commercialized by Intel in 1988, was a refinement on EEPROM which offered partial solutions to these problems. Called NOR Flash Memory, the new technology used vastly less power, and allowed more write/erase cycles before burnout. NOR flash omitted the circuitry to individually erase each bit, and instead it divided the available memory into blocks which could only be erased together, dramatically raising the speed of erase operations, but breaking byte addressability for write operations, and necessitating an awkward "read-the-block, erase it, write the modified block" operation for partial-block writes. The simplified circuitry also lowered overhead and die sizes, lowering costs dramatically. At this point, cost became the primary theoretical impediment to the development of SSDs, and a turning point was reached.
Of course, as time goes on, continuing development in semiconductor fabrication technology increases the speed, capacity, and durability of SSDs of the same design based on the same technology. Costs continually fall. But the price-competitive position of flash memory against hard disks isn't actually helped much by this. In 1997, hard disk prices were a factor of 30 lower than the spot price of flash memory, and by 2003 the difference was over 100-fold. Even Moore's law can't compete against hard disk price scaling, which, ever since the advent of Giant Magnetoresistive Heads, has outpaced it dramatically.
Nonvolatile memory in the age of NAND
To make flash more competitive with magnetic storage, new technologies have been popularized which change the layout of flash further. Optimized for low cost rather than speed, succeeding generations of Flash technology have been less about making Flash more suitable for disks than about bringing the advantages of NOR Flash to more markets by lowering its cost.
The first of these innovations, introduced in 1987 and commercialized in 1989, was NAND flash. The floating-gate transistors of NAND are oriented in a NAND gate, allowing lines of storage with failed transistors to function, and more dense packing of lines. However, this means that NAND reads are not byte-addressable. NAND is read in pages, which are larger than bytes but smaller than blocks. Between the saved read circuitry, denser packing, and lower process quality needs, the cost of NAND is much lower than that or NOR, and its density much higher. Write endurance is lower than NOR.
More than this, though, NAND turns read reliability into a statistical shell game. Individual reads have a much higher bit error rate than with any of the prior-discussed types of memory, so much more aggressive error encoding is involved in ensuring that NAND reads are accurate. Error correction begins with checksum bits in each page. ECC bits in each block, and between blocks, escalate the level of error protection.
The latest twist on Flash memory is MLC technology. All the systems we've discussed so far store information by toggling each cell between two states; a neutral and a charged state; this is a single-level cell, or SLC, design. In what has been referred to as multi-level cell (MLC) flash, each cell has a neutral voltage and three levels of charged state, for a total of four states capable of storing two bits of information. While this scheme allows more data storage per transistor—and is hence much cheaper—reading more finely differentiated voltages requires finer measurement, which is in turn slower and more error-prone. It also reduces the usable life of the Flash thus produced. So SLC is superior in terms of performance and lifecycle, while MLC is cheaper and denser. The performance and lifecycle gaps are dissipating as process technology improves, while the price and density gaps widen.
As the balance shifts toward MLC, higher levels of MLC technology become feasible. The key advances were first made by a small Israeli company called M-Systems. M-Systems released some of the first NAND flash drives for use in rugged industrial and military computers, the onboard systems for the Israeli Defense Force tanks and aircraft. A number of years ago, M-Systems invented techniques that allow even finer voltage level setting and measurement in NAND cells, allowing them to store three bits (eight levels) or even four bits (16 levels) per flash cell. Referred to as X3 and X4 technology, this technique takes the price-and-density vs. speed-and-durability tradeoff of MLC even further.
M-Systems' X3 and X4 technology is currently in the hands of Sandisk, which bought M-Systems in 2006 and gained exclusive control of the patents in an arbitrated dispute with Samsung. The concluding judgment in the dispute ruled that Sandisk wasn't bound by M-Systems' license agreement with Samsung, so now Sandisk and partner Toshiba are now ahead in X3 and X4 technology, while behind in process technology. The Intel-Micron Flash partnership, though, is advancing in X3, and in the long run, achieving higher levels of cell level density, possibly including partial bits, will be an ongoing competition among manufacturers, not a one-sided arrangement.
The continuing evolution of nonvolatile memory technology from EEPROM to NOR to NAND to MLC NAND to X3 and X4 NAND, along with process improvements, are pushing the price-per-bit for semiconductor memory products closer and closer to that of hard disk drives, while retaining, at least somewhat, the former's theoretical advantages in speed, latency, form factor, and ruggedness. Given this climate, the eventual penetration of SSDs into storage segments currently dominated by hard disks is effectively assured. The only questions are when and how it will happen.


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Every August, just when many people go vacationing in the country where skies are dark, the best-known meteor shower makes its appearance.
The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to be at its best this year, producing one or two meteors per minute during peak hours.
"It's going to be a great show," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
August is also known as the month of "The Tears of St. Lawrence." Laurentius, a Christian deacon, is said to have been martyred by the Romans in 258 AD on an iron outdoor stove. It was in the midst of this torture that Laurentius cried out: "I am already roasted on one side and, if thou wouldst have me well cooked, it is time to turn me on the other."
The saint's death was commemorated on his feast day, Aug. 10. King Phillip II of Spain built his monastery place, the "Escorial," on the plan of the holy gridiron. And the abundant shooting stars seen annually between approximately Aug. 8 and 14 have come to be known as St. Lawrence's "fiery tears."
The reality
We know today that these meteors are actually the dusty remains left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle.
Discovered back in 1862, and most recently observed in 1992, this comet takes approximately 130 years to circle the sun. And in much the same way that Comet Tempel-Tuttle leaves a trail of debris along its orbit to produce the Leonid meteors of November, Comet Swift-Tuttle produces a similar debris trail along its orbit to cause the Perseids.
Indeed, every year during mid-August, when Earth passes close to the orbit of Swift-Tuttle, the material left behind by the comet from its previous visits rams into our atmosphere at approximately 37 miles per second (60 kilometers per second) and creates bright streaks of light in our midsummer night skies.
Perfect prospects
According to the best estimates, this year Earth is predicted to cut through the densest part of the Perseid stream sometime around 2 a.m. ET on Monday. That corresponds to 11 p.m. PT Sunday for those living in the western United States or Canada.
What causes meteor showers?The interval when the meteors will be falling at their highest rates will likely last several hours or more on either side of these times.
As a result, it is the late-night hours Sunday, on through the first light of dawn Monday, that holds the greatest promise of seeing a very fine Perseid display.
The moon, whose bright light almost totally wrecked last year's shower, will have zero impact this year. The moon will be new on Sunday, meaning that there will be no interference from it at all.
What to expect
A very good shower will produce about one meteor per minute for a given observer under a dark country sky. Any light pollution or moonlight considerably reduces the count.
Slideshow: Cosmic Sightings The August Perseids are among the strongest of the readily observed annual meteor showers, and at maximum activity the display nominally yields 90 or 100 meteors per hour. Observers with exceptional skies often record even larger numbers. Typically during an overnight watch, the Perseids are capable of producing a number of bright, flaring and fragmenting meteors, which leave fine trains in their wake.
On the night of shower maximum, the Perseid radiant is not far from the famous "Double Star Cluster" of Perseus(hence the name, "Perseid"). Low in the northeast during the early evening, it rises higher in the sky until morning twilight ends observing. Shower members appearing close to the radiant have foreshortened tracks; those appearing farther away are often brighter, have longer tracks, and move faster across the sky.
About five to 10 of the meteors seen in any given hour will not fit this geometric pattern, and may be classified as sporadic or as members of some other (minor) shower.
Plan your time
Perseid activity increases sharply in the hours after midnight, so plan your observing times accordingly. We are then looking more nearly face-on into the direction of the Earth's motion as it orbits the sun, and the radiant is also higher up.
Making a meteor count is as simple as lying in a lawn chair or on the ground and marking on a clipboard whenever a shooting star is seen. Watching for the Perseids consists of lying back, gazing up into the stars, and waiting. It is customary to watch the point halfway between the radiant (which will be rising in the northeast sky) and the zenith, though it's perfectly all right for your gaze to wander.
Counts should be made on several nights before and after the predicted maximum, so the behavior of the shower away from its peak can be determined.
Usually, good numbers of meteors should be seen on the preceding and following nights as well. The shower is generally at one-quarter strength one or two nights before and after maximum. A few Perseids can be seen as much as two weeks before and a week after the peak. The extreme limits, in fact, are said to extend from July 17 to Aug. 24, though an occasional Perseid meteor may be seen almost anytime during the month of August.
In addition to the Perseids, some skywatchers will have an opportunity to view another potentially strong meteor display at the beginning of September: the Aurigid meteors. We'll have more details on this in next week's Night Sky, so stay tuned!
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York.
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There are myriad charities out there.
If a community has multiple Shuls, schools, Mikvaoth, food pantries, and גמ"חs, and new entities open up fulfilling the same role(s), and the new entities' existence challenges the viability of other organizations, even if the new ones purport to target an underserved segment of the community, is there any problem in supporting the new entities? Is there any problem in specifically not supporting the new entities?


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Burn Ban Lifted in Jacksonville, Texas Ahead of Mudstock 2013
If you're planning on attending this year's Can-Am ATV Mudstock in Jacksonville, Texas and wondering if you can bring along some firewood, we have an answer. The lifting of an area burn ban means Mudstock goers are allowed to bring wood for campfires.
According to a Texas A&M Forest Service burn ban map (released Sept. 27), East Texas' Cherokee County, where Jacksonville's River Run ATV Park is located and Mudstock will take place, is no longer under a burn ban.
Unless we hear otherwise between now and the day Mudstock opens its gates (Oct. 2), this means folks making the trip out to have fun, get muddy and go ATV-riding can pack up some firewood for nightly campfires.


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This year there was renewed energy at the rebooted 100% Design trade show - one of the anchors of the London Design Festival. Under new management, the show was buzzing with curious members of the design industry and a fresh layout. What remained the same: the most exciting sustainable furnishings came from emerging brands and designers, who explored the possibilities of flat-packed designs and the creative reuse of materials.
Aiming to make Danish design affordable and accessible, Vita made a great show with their flat-packed lighting. The Eos pendant light (shown above), which comes in two sizes, is constructed of feathers on a paper core. The lamp shades are designed to be flat-packed for delivery to the customer, and then assembled at home in less than 15 minutes. Some of their designs, like the Silvia lamp, can be used as either a pendant, table or floor lamp, as the lights are sold without fittings for maximum flexibility.
The Spun Furniture range of stools and tables by Hugh Leader-Williams, winner of the 100% Design Award at New Designers 2012, are designed for easy production, assembly and disassembly. The powder-coated spun steel tops are connected with magnets to the ash frame, so they can be easily removed. The wooden frames can also be taken apart without tools, for easy transport and storage.
The M Lamp, designed by Brit David Irwin for Brooklyn-based manufacturer Juniper, is touted as a wireless task lamp that can go anywhere. Inspired by a miner's lamp, the M Lamp is made of powder-coated aluminum and steel, and powered by an integrated rechargeable lithium iron phosphate battery. Currently on Kickstarter, the lamp sports a pivoting head and a handle for easy transport.
Playing with the juxtaposition of oak, lacquered surfaces and ceramics, JiB Design Studio's Console O offers attractive and flexible storage. The ceramic pots are hand-thrown in London, and can either be used as planters or topped with oak lids for discrete storage of odds and ends. The console and coordinating credenza are hand-made in a workshop in Britain.
Klickity's accessories are designed and assembled in Ireland. The fig lamp, inspired by the traditional lantern shape, is made from 15 pieces of polypropylene, which come flat-packed. The lamp can be used with any standard pendant light fitting.
The hexagon shape of the sticky-backed Klip from Klickety allows you to create a modular bulletin board.
You don't need screws or glue to put the Kurk cork desk light together, even though it comes flat-packed. Because it all comes apart, each component of the light can be recycled or reused.
Bye Bye Laundry is a concept by Lisa Bengtsson that aims to cut down on the need to wash our clothes so often. Using activated charcoal in a glass container, the device keeps clothing fresher for longer, reducing the amount of water wasted by too-frequent washing.
Form in Void's furniture makes clever use of discarded cardboard tubes from the printing industry. The cardboard legs of the table, bench, chair and stool are paired with plywood tops.
Designer Charlie Winney didn't have to look far for inspiration for his CurlyShade pendant light. Using ash re-growth he sourced just 50 meters from his workshop, he crafted a very eco-friendly lamp shade by steam-bending branches into coils.
The Witherslack Knot lamp shade by Charlie Winney is made from a single piece of ash that is split and then steam-bent into a spiral to show off the natural grain of the wood.
+ London Design Festival Coverage on Inhabitat
Photos by Charlene Lam for Inhabitat


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I'm currently running Maia on Windows 7.
Currently the game saves it's configuration file, log and save games to what I assume to be folder pointed to by HK_CU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal within a "Maia" subfolder. Essentially ".\My Documents\Maia".
I wonder if I could convince you to move that to ".\My Documents\My Games\Maia" ?
There are no gaming folder standards. No registry key to match things like Desktop, My Pictures or Local AppData, defined by Microsoft.
Some games store such things directly in .\My Documents\ (like Maia), some use .\My Documents\My Games\ (examples would be Fallout3, Age of Empires 3, Hawken, Civ5, Skyrim, XCOM E.U. or Terraria), others use .\Users\<username>\AppData Local or Roaming (GuildWars2, Blizzard's Battle.Net, Assassin's Creed). Some use a mix (config files in AppData, save games in My Documents\My Games\ for example).
My Documents does make makes sense, because some users will regularly back that up. Most wouldn't even know that AppData even exists.
However... lots of sub folders directly off .\My Documents\ feels untidy to me. After all it's supposed to be "My" documents, not your documents. I can't do anything about multitude of games that already litter my documents folder with their subfolders - but while Maia is still in Alpha, I can at least mention it for your consideration.
As I say the "My Games" subfolder is already commonplace and in my mind neater. Just a thought.
I appreciate in the short term that means a disruption to existing testers/players - where their save games or game configuration are reset, because the game is looking for them in a different folder. But it's still alpha and it'll be much harder to change it later.
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Online MBA Programs
What are the different types of MBA Programs?
To help narrow the field of schools you are considering, think about the career, lifestyle, financial issues, and curriculum that are important to you. Peruse the below list of MBA concentrations to help you discover what's important to you when choosing an MBA program.
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- 4store
- 4store is a database storage and query engine that holds RDF data. 4store's main strengths are its performance, scalability and stability. It does not provide many features over and above RDF storage and SPARQL queries, but if your are looking for a scalable, secure, fast and efficient RDF store, then 4store should be on your shortlist.
- Automates most tasks on video and audio streaming.
Besides being a free/libre software, its goals are:
- Move past command-line based streaming, by automating things.
- Provide audio/video feedback for the volunteer at the station to monitor the streaming.
- Behave slightly differently according to user actions or loss of the feed.
- GTK+ graphical user interface.
- Ease to switch between testing mode -- for testing the audio and video chain without broadcasting -- to stream mode, which broadcasts the feeds.
- In the event of main camera source failure, ABYSS changes the pipeline to fetch the video source from a backup USB webcam and then starts broadcasting again.
- Each stream is actually recorded locally in three forms to allow easy post-processing: audio-only, raw-video, and audio-video.
- The ADG library (Automatic Drawing Generation) is a set of functions focused on automating the drawing of mechanical parts. It is not a CAD system but a library providing a non-interactive canvas where you can put common CAD entities such as paths, xatches and quotes, to create your technical drawings. The final result can be displayed inside a GTK+ widget or exported to any cairo available format, such as PostScript and PDF documents or PNG and SVG images.
- AKFAvatar
- AKFAvatar is a fancy graphical user interface for applications, where an avatar appears on the screen and tells things to the user via a speech bubble. There can also be recorded audio files, so that the user even can hear what it is saying. It can be used for infotainment systems. With AKFAvatar you can easily write cross platform applications in Lua. Lua scripts don't even need to be compiled for the target platform. It has an interface for C programs. Furthermore there is a binding for Free Pascal.
- Abcde
- 'abcde' is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg/MP3/Flac encoder (Oggenc is the default). With one comand, it grabs a CD, converts each track to Ogg/MP3/Flac, and comments or ID3-tags each file. It supports multiple output in a single CD read, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with Lame), parallelization, SMP, HTTP proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3.
- Adcd
- Adcd is a CD player for GNU/Linux with a ncurses (text mode) interface. It features all the functions expected in a compact disc player, including playing selected tracks, random playing and loop mode. Also features a non-interactive mode for those who want to play their CDs while using the console for something else.
- Agatha
- Agatha is a Web-based MP3 playing system that allows the home user or office group to stream music, create, manage, and share play lists, and control the playing of music on a remote system. It does not require a database and has full play-on-server support.
- Airtime
- Think of a radio station. Airtime is software that allows multiple people to run it over the internet. Airtime helps them manage the audio archive, upload files, create shows, manage staff, edit the programme calendar and cue playout. Designed specifically for independent media, it's free software.
- Alogg
- 'alogg' is a library which makes it easier to use Ogg/Vorbis streams with Allegro. It offers facilities to decode, stream, and encode Ogg/Vorbis streams, and integrates those facilities with Allegro's datafile and sample loading routines. 'alogg' comes with a sample player, streamer, and encoder based on Allegro's sound routines.
- Amarok
- Amarok is a cross-platform multimedia player that uses the Phonon sound server framework to play audio media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library.
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Posted: May 14, 2010
Photo courtesy of Gil Talbot.
Erik Farrar, coach of the men's and women's water polo teams at Harvard, announced his resignation Friday afternoon. Farrar departs after six years during which he committed himself to recruiting student-athletes who would succeed both in the classroom and in the water.
"Over the last 25 years, I have coached 35 seasons of men's and women's water polo combined," Farrar said. "Following that dream required me to set aside other pursuits that have long held my interest. I have reached a point in my life when I must now follow those other paths. I have much I wish to accomplish in life and also in the sport of water polo - goals that cannot be achieved in my role as coach of two varsity teams."
In six seasons, Farrar has guided the women's team to five top-three Northern Division finishes and the men to four. The women advanced to the Eastern Championships five times during his tenure including this past spring, while the men made four appearances, highlighted by semi-final appearances in 2004 and 2008.
Fifteen women and eight men have earned Collegiate Water Polo Association All-Conference honors over the last six seasons. In 2004, Rick Offsay was named to the All-America Team. In 2009, Devan Kennifer was named CWPA North Team Rookie of the Year and Rookie of the tournament at the 2009 CWPA Championships. Bret Voith earned similar honors at the 2007 CWPA Championships.
In 2009-10, the Harvard men owned the second-highest grade-point average in the nation. Individually, nine men's athletes received ACWPC All-Academic honors while 12 were named to the CWPA Scholar-Athlete team. During Farrar's tenure, 45 men and 38 women have been named to the CWPA Scholar-Athlete teams.
"I have often been heard to say over the last six years that 'I have the best job at Harvard' -- a reflection on the extraordinary colleagues with whom I worked and the student-athletes whom I coached," Farrar continued. "I take great pride in my stewardship of the Harvard water polo program and of what we accomplished in the past six years. With the returning men's and women's teams and the strong incoming classes, I leave the program on a far more secure and stable footing than the one I inherited. It is now a program poised to fulfill its long-dormant potential for national excellence, and I look forward to seeing that potential realized."
"We thank Erik for his dedication to Harvard Water Polo and the education of our student-athletes," said Bob Scalise, the Nichols Family Director of Athletics. "We will certainly miss his presence in the Department, and we wish him well with his future endeavors."
A national search for Farrar's successor will begin immediately.


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Loving HDTV, cont'd.
The high-def conversation continues.
A voluminous email response indicates my Sunday story (here) on joining the HDTV revolution touched a nerve. Readers weighed in pro and con:
"Dear Joanne, I was so terribly disappointed by your article. For years I read your words with relish, but to say that the image on television is more, just more, than the content is heart-breaking…I have a twenty five year old TV. There is nothing worth watching–a couple of exceptions–regardless the sparkling clarity and reality of the image," signed Eva Brent.
But more folks recognized their own experiences in my words.
Doug Willey wrote, "I am reminded of the conversion from black and white TV to color where I would chose anything color over anything black & white. I still remember being startled by the bright oranges and reds of the musical 'Lil Abner.' I expect a couple of Discovery HD Theater shows will also remain burned in my brain as my first exposure to HD."
Paul Maxwell helpfully provides a great resource for finding HD channels in any market. He writes:
"Please take a look at (in beta) http://www.whereishd.com/ … it shows (by ZIP code) which HD channels are available via cable, satellite and, if service is active, overbuilders and telco video providers. It also shows what percent of each channel is actually broadcast in HD.
This web site will go live (with advertising … hit the round button on the bottom middle of the TV set … in demo only at the moment) early next month."
He adds that "HD makes the Discovery/BBC programs in Planet Earth a real delight … and hockey and tennis watchable."
Several readers agreed they find themselves watching anything in high-def, but blasted Comcast for its lack of HD channels.
Another asked, maybe not so rhetorically, "will we ever be able to watch TCM again?"


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Hundreds of still-burning mobility scooters and crushed Zimmer frames litter the streets of Wellington tonight after a Babyboomer Rights (BBR) rally turned violent.
Riot police moved in to disperse the crowd earlier today when thousands of BBR protestors threatened to storm Te Papa museum, apparently mistaking it for the Beehive.
Police Minister, Sir Colin Mathura-Jeffree (allegedly 28), justified the brutal crackdown on cultural grounds.
"Sir Peter Jackson was opening his Hobbit retrospective this afternoon," Sir Colin said. "We couldn't have all those nasty brown polyester slacks and lime jumpsuits frightening off the tourists. OMG! Just imagine the clash."
The Wellington BBR rally followed a string of similar protests across the country, sparked initially by the refusal of high-profile pensioner activist Winston Peters (105) to pay the $1 fare and surrender his now illegal Gold Card to a Tauranga bus driver.
Prime Minister Hickey (26), formerly Spokesperson for Everything, had labeled the Peters' Gold Card incident as "just another example of the intergenerational theft we've come to expect from Babyboomers".
In a call Skyped from his Cook Islands winter retreat, Peters, also a former Spokesperson for Everything, defended his action on cultural grounds.
" These people have worked hard all my life and they're just not going to stand for it any more," Peters said before slumping into a Lazyboy, clutching a cardboard box to his chest. "And look at me, look at me. I'm reduced to cask wine, cask wine..."
Technical glitches, said to be a bug in the Skype network, cut short the message, however, a BBR spokesperson confirmed Peters was currently hooked up to a cask-wine drip for medicinal purposes.
The BBR spokesperson also revealed the pensioner lobby group had launched a class action against Generations X and Y in a bid to recoup the years wasted raising them.
"If we hadn't spent all those miserable hours singing them the alphabet song they wouldn't even know what generation they belonged to," the spokesperson said.
Recently-appointed Chief Justice, David Dotcom (24), said he would give the BBR case a fair hearing despite declaring on his Facebook page that anyone aged over 30 was "the enemy".
"Where did you get that information? I consider that a gross breach of my privacy," Dotcom said via Twitter.


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Kate Gosselin has lent more weight to the rumor she's heading to her own TV talk show.
Last week, reports surfaced that Telepictures was developing a morning show with Kate, Southern foodie Paula Deen and several other women who have yet to be named, and the TLC star added fuel to the fire last week at a women's conference.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Jon and Kate's Family Photo Album
"I've been given the gift of gab, so why not use it?" Kate said of possibly doing a talk show, while speaking to an audience at the Southern Women's Show in Charlotte, N.C., The Charlotte Observer reported.
Kate seemed to make her first major move toward proving she has the chops and the mouth for a morning show by sitting in with the ladies of "The View" last week.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hollywood's Hottest Moms & Their Loveable Little Ones
"It is sort of like a career move, so I had to do it," the "Jon & Kate Plus 8" star said.
When contacted by Access Hollywood last week, a rep for Telepictures said they do not comment on "developmental activity."
And while life as a single mom (she is currently divorcing Jon Gosselin) seems to be working out, Kate revealed the break up is still hard.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Keepin' It Real With TV's Hottest Reality Stars!
"I miss Jon," Kate told the Charlotte crowd. "The Jon that I used to know."
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Episodes: 84
Subtitles: 716
Downloads: 447981
VIKINGS follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, an actual historical figure, and the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the gripping sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods – legend has it that he was a direct descendent of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
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Housing Michigan's oldest Jewish congregation, Temple Beth El has all the stateliness of a magnificent venue with none of the stuffiness. Although the Temple has a wonderful large sanctuary for worship, the GLCMF prefers the intimate Chapel space at the Temple's north end for chamber music.
Welcome to the 26th Season of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival
For nearly three decades, the Festival has existed as one of metro Detroit's musical gems bringing many of the world's premier chamber musicians to intimate, magnificent venues throughout the area. The 2019 Festival features many of the world's most acclaimed and decorated performers, including the world-renowned, nine-time Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet; MacArthur Genius and Avery Fisher Prize Winner, Leila Josefowicz; four-time Grammy Award-winning modern-classical superstars, Eighth Blackbird; and the award-winning, internationally-acclaimed soprano, Christine Goerke. Join us for an unforgettable two weeks celebrating these awe-inspiring artists and many more!
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From the guys who brought you that homemade version of the Man of Steel trailer comes this latest adventure in sweding, applied to the trailer for J.J. "TrekWars" Abrams' upcoming Star Trek: Into Darkness. Highlight for me: the guys trying to vocally re-create the Inception horn.
I actually rewatched Abrams' Star Trek yesterday. I think the opening thirty minutes or so are my favorite part. But so, okay: how the hell did Kirk meet up with old-Spock on the ice planet? I mean, how the fuck did that happen? It was the ultimate plot contrivance. Wasn't there some other way to write around that? I guess not. Anyway. I still think that movie was a lot of fun.
How's everyone doing? Playing anything good? Watching any good TV? Reading any good books? Is anyone out there reading Young Avengers? I'm midway through Phonogram and I really want to pick it up once I'm done. Did you see Girls last night? It was really funny. Wow, that's a lot of questions from me.
It's off-topic time, so talk aboutanything you'd like, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good conversations.


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Type-A Advanced Philadelphia #typeaphilly
Type-A Parent Conference
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM (EDT)
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Type-A Advanced Philadelphia is sold out. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you want to be sure you don't miss a chance to attend another Type-A event, see events with open registration at the conference site. If you want to be sure to hear as new events are announced, subscribe to Type-A Parent's email list.
Type-A Advanced is a smaller, intensive one-day educational and networking event geared at experienced bloggers. The debut Type-A Advanced will be at the Sheraton Society Hill Philadelphia. The special Type-A room rate is $179/night, and you must book here to get that rate (VERY limited space available).
Here is what you can expect at Type-A Advanced:
- These will be one-day, intensive, boot camp-style conferences.
- They will be small, limited to a maximum of 100 attendees.
- The sessions will be advanced for experienced bloggers.
- The sessions will be focused on hands-on small group learning and roundtable discussions of important topics.
- Each Type-A Advanced will have sessions geared to all experienced bloggers (on topics such as coding, monetization, the business side, working with brands, boosting traffic, etc.), as well as one concentration/focus.
For the debut event in Philadelphia, the focus will be:
This means there will be one track focused exclusively on teaching attendees ways to earn a solid living as a blogger (without having to sell out or become annoying and salesy).
No refunds on passes, but you may request a pass transfer up to 30 days prior to the event.
When & Where
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Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM (EDT)
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