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Headteachers have warned they could still mount a legal challenge over GCSE English, as Ofqual said that the qualification will not be re-graded.
The regulator admitted grade boundaries were higher in June than they were in January, but insisted it would be "inappropriate" to re-consider either of them. Instead, students who gained their English GCSE this summer will be given an extra chance to re-sit exams or re-submit work in November.
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said it was not "acceptable or practicable" to make the students resit. It warned it could still begin a legal challenge against grade boundary changes on the grounds that it had disadvantaged certain groups of students.
Ofqual's report into the GCSE English crisis found that January's GCSE English assessments were "graded generously" but the June boundaries were properly set and candidates' work properly graded.
But it said that it would not be "revisiting" the June grade boundaries because it would "contradict our responsibility to maintain standards over time and make sure results are comparable year-on-year." Re-visiting the January boundaries could mean lowering the grades of other students' assessments, which would lead to further concerns of unfairness.
ASCL general secretary Brian Lightman said: "We are actively considering what legal challenge would be a way of dealing with this, although we would much prefer to solve this through other means. What we are seeking to do here is get justice for young people who have been badly affected by systemic failures that are not of their making."
Concerns mainly centre around pupils who were expected to get a C but instead got a D, and that this could affect their chances of getting into sixth-form college, or gaining an apprenticeship.
Ofqual chief regulator Glenys Stacey said the regulator looked carefully at how GCSE English qualifications had been awarded this year: "We have spoken to exam boards and they have been very responsive. Recognising the strength of feeling, they will be offering early resits for students who sat the June units."
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said it was "extremely disappointed" in Ofqual's findings. General secretary Russell Hobby said. "Our call for results to be re-graded remains. We will press for the report outcomes to be reconsidered and a re-grading to be carried out with the utmost urgency, to bring to an end the uncertainty over so many students' futures."
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said that Ofqual's statement did not address the situation and called for the Education Secretary to make a statement to MPs: "Mr Gove must get a grip on this situation and come before Parliament when the House of Commons returns next week to explain to the public how it came about that pupils could receive such different treatment from exam boards and to set out his plans for clearing up this mess."


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Men and women who once felt secure in middle-class occupations are working whatever jobs they can find. Since 2007, mid-level occupations that pay between $14 to $21 an hour took a 60 percent hit, with just 27 percent being regained in the recovery, recent national studies indicate.
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"They have to learn about the Florida economy and what's out there," she said, adding her organization provides a wide variety of services for free for everyone from veteran professionals to first-time job seekers. "I hope things turn around, but don't expect to make what you did before."
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Fall 2006 (Originally published in the Announcer)
Each year, toward the end of the summer the treasurer is asked to prepare the annual financial report to be published in the Fall Announcer. This year's report has a couple of items you might find interesting in addition to the standard report from our annual audit.
As I write this in August, the head of our accounting department, Fran Smith, has just submitted her resignation effective at the end of August to join the staff of the American Association of Community Colleges. She has been an extremely valuable person in the executive office. Along with the normal accounting skills she has, she brought knowledge of grant accounting to our office and that by itself was a sorely needed expertise. I certainly will miss her. She freely answered all of my questions about the budget, some of which must have seemed pretty basic to her. And she was always prompt in replying to my last minute requests for data to include in the reports that go to the Executive Board, the Bauder Endowment Fund Committee, the Venture Fund Committee, and others. Unfortunately her leaving comes just as the budget for 2007 is being developed. Warren Hein, the association's Associate Executive Officer, will be doing a yeoman's job to get this budget prepared for the Executive Board's approval at our October meeting.
Another important change in the financial status of the association is the hiring of a new executive officer (EO). Toufic Hakim began the job on September 5, 2006, and Bernie Khoury became our EO Emeritus. When Bernie Khoury announced his future retirement, the board saw the wisdom in keeping him as the EO Emeritus to help with the transition. So in 2007 we will have salaries for both an EO and an EO Emeritus.
Hiring a new executive officer was considered by your Executive Board to be very important (and you probably agree) and were willing to support the search financially. We hired a firm that specialized in searching for outstanding people to fill important positions such as university presidents and executive officers for a wide range of organizations. It was this company that found Hakim, so we feel that their charges were well worth it.
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A fund-raising program has begun and will continue for several years (unless someone with very deep pockets steps up sooner). The first thing we would like to do is to endow our awards. The money for these awards have always been taken from our operations budget, so if we can endow the prizes we will be able to have either a smaller budget or have additional programs that will help teachers and students alike. You will be hearing more about this from other sources.
In 2006, Charlie Holbrow accepted the position and challenge of becoming the Association's Senior Staff Physicist. His goal was to investigate how AAPT could better serve the four-year colleges and universities. He designed and conducted several successful workshops. This position will continue with a new Senior Staff Physicist beginning sometime in the fall.
All of these items will help AAPT reach its goals and will impact the financial status of the Association. They will completely unbalance our operating budget, and the board recognizes this. Therefore the Executive Board is prepared to draw down our long-term reserve to cover these initial costs. The problem is we don't know exactly how much this will cost, so you will have to follow the Treasurer's Reports in the future to see what the impact is.
Now, for the more mundane part of this report. The firm of Rubino & McGeehin again audited our books and found that the financial statements of the association gave an accurate picture of our financial status. That means you can examine our financial statements found on the following pages with confidence.
The graph on page 33 (fig. 1) represents our assets for the period 1999–2005 in several categories. I have also included the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the same period. (You need to multiply the DJIA times 3 to get the actual value.) You can see that the main constituent of our total asset is our investment in unrestricted funds. These investments pretty much reflect the status of the financial market in general. The dip seen in 2005 is due to money we withdrew from our long-term account to pay for some of the items listed in the paragraphs above.
So, we know how 2005 turned out and are in the midst of 2006. We are working on the 2007 budget. We have a new EO and maybe a new accountant. Decisions are being made by your Executive Board. And life goes on.
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Posted on 12/10/2009 11:03:19 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Last February I mentioned the events that would commemorate the life and work of Charles Darwin in 2009. I had no idea at the time that I would be invited to participate in one of these events. But there I was, precisely 150 years after On the Origin of Species first appeared, seated with other scientists in front of a packed room that featured, among other interesting things, a life-sized model of a baleen whale. The venue was the National Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, and the occasion was a panel discussion titled Design without a Designer? [1] The "bold generation" of young thinkers turned up in droves, listening intently as the discussion went well beyond its advertised ninety minutes.
To my knowledge the event wasnt recorded, so a transcript may never appear. Ill include my statements below (which I had to prepare in advance for translation). I have to confess, though, that the mere fact that this took place at all impressed me beyond anything that was said. You have to wonder what Darwin would have thought had he known that his theory would still be the subject of scientific debate a century and a half later. Does anything become healthy after so many years of limping along?
The official description of the event [1] is remarkable in itself, in that it sheds the usual religious caricature of ID in favor of the real scientific issue whether there is objective evidence of creative intelligence behind the design of life. Weve translated the short version as follows:
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Darwin's theory, this high-caliber panel discussion between evolutionists and Darwin critics will consider the question of whether the evolution of life on Earth is based solely on blind and unguided natural processes, or whether there is non-religiously based, verifiable evidence of meaningful and purposeful acts of creative intelligence in the natural world. This meeting at the Stuttgart Museum of Natural History aims to contribute constructively and with clarity and objectivity to this important debate. A public debate between evolutionary biologists and evolutionary critics at this high level is very rare in Germany, and therefore can be expected to be a very exciting evening.
Its rare anywhere. And an exciting evening it was.
Here's my opening statement on intelligent design:
The controversy surrounding intelligent design has generated much confusion about the theorys basic claims. For example, the Oxford American Dictionary defines intelligent design as: the theory that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity.
The problem with this definition is that it makes intelligent design sound more like a dogma than a theory. So, lets consider another description. William Dembski and Stephen Meyer have both framed the design argument in terms of functional information, meaning information that specifies a significant functional outcome. Since this fits well with my own understanding, I offer the following three-statement summary of the design argument:
First: Living things contain within their genomes large amounts of functional information.
Second: The only cause known to be capable of generating large amounts of functional information is intelligence.
And third: It is therefore reasonable to infer that the functional information in living things must have an intelligent source.
Here we have not a pronouncement but an argument based on evidence and logic. It is perfectly fair to argue against it, of course, but it is hardly fair to dismiss it as dogma.
So, what does this have to do with Darwins great book, which we remember today? On this question I refer to a well known popularizer of Darwins theory, professor Richard Dawkins. In his book Climbing Mount Improbable [2], Dawkins distinguishes between designed objectsthings crafted with creative intent and what he calls designoid objectsthings that appear designed but have in fact been crafted by natural selection. Living things are either one or the other either designed or designoid. They cannot be both. On this point, Dawkins and I agree.
To support his claim that they are designoid rather than designed, Dawkins turns to spiders and computers. He uses a computer program called NetSpinner, which applies an evolutionary algorithm to optimize the design of a virtual spider web. After evolving in this way some impressive webs, he discusses the limitations of computer models like NetSpinner. Here he makes a common-sense point about the trade-off between their simplicity and their realism. In his words: Every time an additional and complicated point of detail is incorporated into NetSpinner, extra pages of difficult computer code have to be written by a clever human programmer. [2]
Now, as obvious as this point may be, it is significant in that Dawkins reasoning here seems very similar to the design reasoning I just outlined:
Software upgrades contain large amounts of functional information.
Intelligence is the only known source of this kind of information.
Therefore software upgrades require intelligent programmers.
Moreover, Dawkins applies this design reasoning right after using NetSpinner to demonstrate the power of natural selection operating in a computer. Why, I wonder, does he not tap that power to create those new pages of computer code? Is it that code is too complex to be spun by selection? If so, does any biologist honestly believe that the inner workings of biology are less complex?
According to Dawkins, a typical spider produces six different kinds of silk from its spinnerets, each made in a separate abdominal gland, and it switches between the different types for different purposes. The silk itself has what Dawkins describes as a remarkably complicated structure that imparts to its threads equally remarkable material properties. Among these are the ability to stretch on impact to ten times its rest length, and to dampen the recoil so as not to fling captured prey out of the web. Equally remarkable is the stickiness, which is achieved in some spiders with a special coating, and in others with a multi-stranded silk which must be combed out with a specialized comb on the spiders leg. The result is a microscopic version of Velcro, which is highly efficient at snagging insect legs.
Perhaps someday someone will show in a convincing way how such things can come about without intelligent design. If that day ever comes, we will presumably have no more need of clever human programmers or engineers. Perhaps that day will come. But today, despite the heroic efforts of people like Darwin and Dawkins today we must appeal to intelligent design.
And here's my statement on the origin of biological information:
Id like to develop further the connection between functional information and intelligent design. In a broad sense, everything that performs a function by means of a special arrangement of parts embodies functional information. When it comes to quantifying that information, though, some things are much more suitable objects of study than others. Here sequences of characters, like letters in sentences or bits in data streams, are of special interest.
No one in Darwins time would have guessed how important information of this digital kind would become in human technology. But as hard as that would have been to imagine, it would have been still harder to imagine the central role of digital information in life itself. Even today we are debating the implications this has for Darwins theory.
For my own part, it is the study of functional information in life that, more than anything else, has convinced me that Darwinism must give way to intelligent design. Five minutes is not enough time to explain this fully, so those interested in the details will need to refer to more detailed accounts. I particularly recommend Stephen Meyers recent book Signature in the Cell, though it is not yet available in German.
Here, in order to simplify the subject Ill use an analogy to describe how the functional information in biological genes has been measured. The analogy is between the proteins that genes encode and written language, the two having at least rough correspondence in several respects. Proteins are something like long sentences, written not with a 26-letter alphabet but with a 20-amino-acid alphabet. In both cases the alphabetic characters are arranged in sequence to accomplish useful tasks either a communication task or a biological task. The rules for proper sequence arrangement are somewhat flexible in both cases. Just as the same idea can be expressed in different words, and therefore different letter sequences, so also the same protein function can be achieved with different amino-acid sequences. And both kinds of sequence are somewhat forgiving as well sentences may be readable even with several typographical errors, and proteins may likewise tolerate amino-acid changes caused by random mutations in the genes that encode them.
In both cases, however, the forgiveness has strict limits. If random errors are allowed to accumulate, function is lost when only a fraction of the positions have been altered. This transition from a functional or readable sequence to a non-functional or unreadable one presents an interesting opportunity. Since the degradation can be observed, it can be used to measure how restrictive the demands of function are on the sequences. And this is directly related to the functional information required to meet those demands.
So, to find out how much functional information is required for even a weakly functional sequence, we begin by isolating one such sequence one with enough errors that it is just barely readable (or just barely functional). Then we randomize a section of this sequence to produce a great variety of altered sequences, most of which dont work at all. Some fraction of these randomized sequences will work, though. They will almost certainly differ from the original sequence, but they will be comparably functional. By measuring that fraction after several sections of sequence have separately been randomized, one can estimate the fraction that would have worked if the entire sequence had been randomized. And from this one can calculate the amount of functional information.
But the fraction itself does a better job of conveying how unlikely working sequences are. For one protein subjected to this kind of experiment, the conclusion was that working sequences are as rare as one in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion. [3] In other words, they are unimaginably rare far too rare to be stumbled upon by any unguided search, such as a Darwinian search.
Notice that this isnt a negative result in the sense of an unsuccessful attempt to measure something. The measurement was successful. Some will still see it as a negative result in that it precludes unguided searches. But since we do in fact encounter meaningful sentences every day, we know that intelligence is fully capable of producing what chance simply cannot produce. So we ought also to see this as a positive result one that confirms the design explanation just as decisively as it refutes the Darwinian one.
[1] Design ohne Designer?
[3] doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.06.058
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So far as we know, intelligence comes from intelligence. Modern science is based on the belief that the universe is intelligible. At the same time, there is the inexplicable.
Kind of reminds me of an experiment I composed on a thread a few months ago where I allowed any reader to try to demonstrate whether a computer could or could not self-assemble and it baffled all the "enlightned" evo-knuckledraggers at the time.
That was shortly followed by one of the "clearly-more- baffle-able-than-others" posing as though he had a PhD in something, but didn't know that "peer-reviewed" journals are largely published as magazines.
Evo-knuckledraggers around here are too often revealed to be just imposters and in more ways than just one.
"I love science. Just like evolution, its one of Gods greatest creations. Its the gift that keeps on giving."
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my thanks was for posting
And my apologies to swordmaker and wendy1946 for the oversight...
But nothing to add to this beyond a drive by snarking.
Science IS a beautiful thing. But it can NOT explain all. All will be explained when we get to our home in Heaven.
Jesus loves you Natural, do you know Him as your Savior?
You can't post anything without an insult, can you?
I prefer to do my theological discussions in the Religion Forum where they belong. Pick a post there and ping me if you want to explore my faith. While you are at it, please stop ringing my door bell early Saturday mornings asking the same question.
My peacocks were always good at chasing them off the property....
Be careful. Using "pea" and "cock" in the same sentence will have them mashing the report abuse button.
Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, for those in Crevo-Linda.
Still baffled I see. Must have recognized yourself.
It's just so much fun to watch imposters and pretenders to conservatism like yourself get your panties in a wad when you're busted.
You claim to be a Christian?
Which puts it smack, dab in the middle of a debate in ........
That is not science. Science can deal with the mechanical and explain how, but is useless beyond that.
Yet it is a source of constant amazement the number of scientists who have the arrogance to make pronouncements about subjects outside their expertise using a tool totally inappropriate for the job.
Notice that they qualified the intelligent agent as in the *natural* world? Can't have any of that God creating stuff now, can we?
Don't forget the part about God creating.....
"I love science. Just like evolution, its one of Gods greatest creations. Its the gift that keeps on giving. God creates everything for a reason. He created you and me. He created GGG, xcamel and all FReepers and placed us all here together on FR for a reason. He even created the duck billed platypus for a reason. Mine is not to question why or even to do or die. To God Be the Glory." JR
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Seriously he'll be ready next year..scope is not that bad
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Actually Hill needs hand surgery
.....to to learn how to catch..
Seriously he'll be ready next year..scope is not that bad
This year was a complete wash for the kid.
Hopefully we hire a great OC that he can learn under. Really hoping he pans out. The game he got hurt, he finally started catching with his hands.
Just hope this won't be his theme of his career.
A developmental player...undeveloped.
Hill will be a solid WR. It was unfair making him a starter in his rookie year.
I know he came as a "raw talent" who needs time to develop but a little heat has to be put on Sanjay Lal for the lack of improvement during the season. Not that I expected Calvin Johnson by now but I expected to see real improvement and it just hasn't happen. I actually think the drop in the Pats game really screwed him up.
If he doesn't spend his off-season in front of a Juggs Machine, he'll be a No.4 or 5 receiver next year and possibly off the team in 2014. There's no excuse for having as inconsistent hands as he had this year. I watched him at Georgia Tech and when the ball was thrown his way, he almost always came down with it.
Scope is easy but there can always be snags.
Scoping the knee is akin to getting your toenails cut.
I am unsure what inprovment is to be expected the way Sanchize played. Hill will be solid next year with McElroy running the O. I know, i know,,,, I have high hopes for the kid though.
He needs to develop, like most WRs do when then move from college to the pros.
No one should be surprised that he needs time to develop.
All I've heard all year from the Sanchez supporters is that the WRs are constantly running the "wrong" routes. I've never even heard of this phenomenon wrt other teams, yet people seem quite adamant that this is a real problem for the offense (how anyone can claim this without extensive analysis of the all-22 tape and the actual Jets playbook in their hands I have no idea). If so, Lal should be another one on the chopping block, no? I mean, that's his job?


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Drawn by Clarkson Stanfield and engraved by E. Finden for 'The Life and Works of Lord Byron', published as the Illustrated Drawing-Room Edition in 1870 with a memoir of the author by William Anderson. The prints were originally engraved between 1832-34. Paper size is approx. 262 x 170 mm
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With over 15 years experience Blitz Fireworks®, of Crewe, Cheshire are one of the UK's leading suppliers of retail fireworks and professional firework display operators.
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Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Performances take place at The Ellicott Creek Playhouse, 530 Ellicott Creek Road, Tonawanda. Ticket prices are $14 (general) and $13 (students/seniors). For more information, or to reserve tickets, call 716-284-6358.


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If you or a loved one is currently struggling with substance abuse, it's not something that needs to be faced alone. Every day, millions of people throughout the world wrestle with addictions. From drug dependance, to addictions to prescription medications, to alcohol, substance abuse is only one type of addiction, but there are 27 million "problem users" globally. For many, the answer may be professional drug rehab in , AL, and the drug treatment that qualified centers can provide.
Addiction doesn't discriminate between men or women, the young or the old, the employed or the unemployed. There are many reasons to become addicted, and many reasons to seek drug treatment, but the most important reason is to do it for yourself. Addiction is a painful burden to carry, and it hurts those around you, but it does the most damage to you as a person. That's why it's important to seek , AL drug rehab services, or to recommend them to someone in your life; not for other people, but for those that are addicted.
At its core, addiction is a "need." Whether it's a need to cope with stress, a need to forget about a traumatic event, or a need to feel socially accepted, drugs and alcohol are an attempt to fulfill a need. While they may seem to work at first, in reality, these substances create an even bigger need, without satisfying the first, which is why drug treatment is necessary.
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Your social life needs substances, because it's easy to fall in with the "wrong crowd." One of the most difficult challenges that you can face in drug treatment is realizing just how much other people can influence your bad behavior. Whether it's friends that purchase and abuse drugs with you, or it's romantic partners that pressure you into substance abuse, drug rehab can help you to identify and end toxic social relationships that could be making your addiction worse.
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This pot was purchased nearly 20 years ago at a student craft show. It has survived a dozen moves, has been stored and neglected for years, and then sadly relegated to being a lowly paint brush container. I've dusted it off, taken a second look and fallen madly in love!
I have not worked with ceramics since I was 13 years old. And I'm itching to shape and move clay in my hands. Recently, I did have the chance to experiment with the mysterious adventure that is glazing. In an attempt to mimic the tones of the above piece, I bought this pre-bisqued vase, selected earthen colors and crystalline glazes, painted, fired...and waited and waited. This is the result:
My interest in ceramics is now taking me to bookish research. There's a myriad of technical issues to consider and absorbing it all will take some time.
Some inspiring images from a couple of old books to share: Finding One's Way with Clay by Berensohn and Making Pottery Without a Kiln by Ball & Lovoos.
I don't see why I couldn't grow my tiny pottery collection to include my very own ceramic pieces some day.


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UCDP October Release Notification
September 18, 2012
On October 7, 2012, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) will update the Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®) to implement enhancements for appraisal submissions to both GSEs. The enhancements include:
Updates to Error Messaging (Hard Stop 9001)
Hard Stop 9001 (appraisal data in invalid format) will be modified to provide additional information on the reason the hard stop was issued. The updated hard stop message will be displayed in the user interface and the Submission Summary Report (SSR). Integrated users should check with your technology solution provider to understand when the enhanced messaging will be a part of their integrated solution.
Review the table below for the causes of the hard stop:
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Stop – Causes
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|PDF for conversion is not a PDF
|This occurs when the PDF file that was submitted through the Veros PDF Extraction Service, within the UCDP, isn't a PDF and/or is corrupted in some manner causing the UCDP not to be able to recognize it.
|Appraisal file deleted or renamed prior to submission
|This occurs when an appraisal file is selected either through the Submit screen or Appraisal View/Edit screen (to upload a corrected appraisal file) and the appraisal file is deleted or renamed before it is submitted.
|XML is not well-formed
|This occurs when the submitted XML document is not a complete and valid XML document. This usually occurs because of a syntax error such as missing or additional tags and/or XML related characters.
|XML contains non-UTF8 characters
|This occurs when the UCDP accepts XML documents that are formatted using the UTF8 encoding. If the XML document contains characters that are not encoded using UTF8, this error will be raised.
|XML file type cannot be auto-detected
|This occurs when the submitted document is not a valid appraisal XML file as accepted by the UCDP. Examples could be where the user accidentally grabs the wrong XML file or the file is not an accepted appraisal type (1004D).
|XML file does not match the specified format and form
|(DI submissions only)
This occurs when the user submits an XML file that doesn't match the indicated format and form (e.g., an XML file is submitted as a 1004, but the actual file is a 1073).
|XSD check failure
|This occurs when the submitted XML document fails to validate against a predefined XSD (XML Schema Definition).
View/Edit Screen Update
The View/Edit screen in the UCDP will be updated to add the SSR icon, making the SSR accessible for each appraisal when viewing or editing appraisal information. As reminder, the SSR can also be retrieved in the UCDP through:
- The Search Screen - Click on the Search icon or tab from the UCDP Home page and enter the desired Search Criteria. The loans that met the criteria of your search will be displayed. Locate the appropriate Document File ID and click the Download SSR icon (to the right of the Edit link).
- The Reports Screen - Click on the Reports tab, select Submission Reports, and then select Submission Summary Report. Enter the Document File ID, click Run, and click the Export to PDF icon (to the left of the Print Report icon).
Note: No changes will be made to the current SSR format.
Appraiser Trainee License Number
The hard stops that validate the "State License #" field will be updated to account for appraiser "trainees" who are not issued a state license number. For these trainees, the value of "trainee" should be entered in the field labeled "or Other (describe)." The "State License #" field can be left blank (previously a value of "trainee" was recommended).
Please note that if a trainee is issued a license number, that number should be entered in the "State License #" field and the word "trainee" should be entered in the field labeled "or Other (describe)."
With this update to the UCDP, the guidance provided on the Appraiser Trainee License Number in the UAD Update April 2012 can be disregarded. For more information on the UAD fields and requirements refer to UAD Specification Appendix D, Field-Specific Standardization Requirements.
Additional Information
More information about the UCDP, including training and resources, visit:
This communication relates to the Uniform Mortgage Data Program®, an effort undertaken jointly by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at the direction of their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency.


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College athletics is challenged by growing pressures coming from many directions — that's why strengthening integrity in this vital part of higher education is more important than ever.
The current reform movement seeks to address areas that are serious threats to the integrity of college athletics and is committed to the success of student-athletes on the playing field, in the classroom and in life after college.
Working groups were created after the August 2011 Presidential Retreat to find real solutions for improving student-athlete well-being; simplifying NCAA rules; ensuring accountability; and emphasizing fiscal sustainability in Division I. The NCAA member schools and national office are committed to the academic success of student-athletes because we agree that graduating from college is just as important as winning a championship.
Indeed, we believe that everyone plays an important role in improving college athletics. That's why coaches, student-athletes, faculty athletics representatives, athletics directors, compliance professionals, and presidents and chancellors make up the working groups of the reform movement. We want to hear the best ideas from everyone involved in college athletics. Reform represents a new way of thinking for many; campus leaders will be expected to act proactively. Change is never easy, but the simple truth is that these steps are necessary to protect the integrity of college athletics and the future success of our student-athletes.
Status Reports
Through the presidentially led working groups, the membership proposed scores of reforms to improve student-athlete well-being, enhance academic requirements, address accountability issues and tackle resource concerns. Most changes suggested through this process were adopted by the Division I Board of Directors and remain in place today. These charts provide detail on the status of reforms proposed in five different areas:
- Academics Reform
- Enforcement Reform
- Resource Allocation Reform
- Rules Reform
- Student-Athlete Well-Being Reform
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This information has been preserved for historical purposes. It is not current.
In 2007, the Governor signed into law Joint Resolution No. 3 stating that the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) should conduct a thorough and comprehensive evaluation identifying organizational and staffing deficiencies that limit DOE's ability to provide effective oversight of the Districts in the state. In addition, the resolution calls for DOE to improve capacity to oversee the operation of Districts and to respond immediately and effectively to operational and educational issues that may arise.
To meet these objectives, DOE commissioned a performance audit to assess the oversight of District operations and provide recommendations to potentially improve the efficiency and effectiveness of DOE's oversight capacity and relevant processes. In furtherance of this goal, KPMG LLP (KPMG) was asked to provide the requested services so as to offer as an objective and independent assessment of DOE's performance in the form of a report. KPMG started fieldwork on May 6, 2007 and concluded on June 29, 2007. DOE was provided a draft report by July 13, 2007. KPMG met with DOE to discuss the draft on July 13, 2007 and throughout the week of July 16, 2007. A final draft was provided by July 27, 2007 as was required by Joint Resolution No. 3. KPMG conducted this performance audit in accordance with Performance Audit Standards of Generally Accepted Governmental Auditing Standards as promulgated by
the Comptroller General of the United States ("Yellow Book").
I. Engagement Summary
II. Engagement Scope & Approach
III. Current State Overview
IV. Desired State Overview
V. Findings & Recommendation
Appendix A – Organizational Chart
Appendix B – Job Activity Questionnaire Results
Appendix C – District Survey Results
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Prior to Doubleknot, David was responsible for sales and service delivery as the Western US Regional Managing Director for Burntsand, a publicly traded international IT consultancy. His experience crosses many industries and sectors, including non-profits, health and fitness, high-tech manufacturing, financial services, government-regulated enterprises and processes, and commercial aircraft operations and maintenance.
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David was a Vice President of Business Development at Altro Solutions, an international provider of business strategy consulting, software development, and systems integration specializing in content-enhanced e-solutions. David oversaw sales and marketing for Altro when annualized revenues were $28 million. Burntsand acquired Altro Solutions.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials say ice buildup on a pipeline caused the spill of 108,000 gallons of coal slurry into a creek.
Tuesday's spill at Patriot Coal's Kanawha Eagle Prep Plant in eastern Kanawha county affected six miles of Fields Creek and flowed one-half mile into the Kanawha River before dissipating.
State environmental mining official Harold Ward said it could take 10 to 14 days to clean the creek. Officials haven't spotted fish kills. A news release from the State Department of Environmental Protection said the company is using vacuum trucks and pumping water from the stream near its plant into settling ponds.
Ward said the company has set up barriers to stop flow into the Kanawha, and officials don't expect the spill to have a major effect on the river.