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UC San Diego's Strategic Plan
Goal 3
Nurturing and supporting a collaborative and interdisciplinary research culture that advances the frontiers of knowledge, shapes new fields, and disseminates discoveries that transform lives
Strategy 6
Identify emerging and future trends and strategic thrusts to increase our impact and enrich society.
Despite all attempts to systematically predict the most compelling problems and research areas to invest in at any given time, there will always be surprises and opportunities that spring up on short notice. In order to be ready to jump in and capitalize on the ones that inspire our university community, we have initially allocated $1.5 million over two years to seed research opportunities, like our brain activity mapping research. Identifying emerging and future trends must come from introspection, debate, and dialogue among academics, staff, and students.
At UC San Diego, multidisciplinary efforts exist harmoniously with individual, discipline-specific research and creativity, and both tracks will continue to be driving forces for future scholarly activities.
Professors, scientists, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates at UC San Diego will define and shape specific projects related to our grand research themes outlined below.
Four grand research themes: Focus on four multidisciplinary areas where our campus has deep and broad expertise and that are rich with possibility for creation and innovation, education, and training.
At recent university-wide workshops on the natural world, human life and health, human knowledge, and social disparities, it became clear that the complexity of each theme requires multidisciplinary, collaborative, and innovative solutions, while also providing exceptional educational and training opportunities across the campus.
1. Understanding and Protecting the Planet
Explaining and effectively communicating environmental change, engineering economically viable solutions that will enhance the resilience of society, and recommending necessary policy changes and assessing their economic impact
Current strengths: Pioneering research in the science of climate change that remains at the forefront of this field through interdisciplinary research among physicists, engineers, medical researchers, business experts, social scientists and others
Future growth: Providing innovations in areas such as technology for renewable-fuel energy strategies and sustainability of dwindling natural resources, and creating solutions to predict and respond to natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, fires, extreme climates, sea-level rise and acidity, drought, famine)
2. Enriching Human Life and Society
Improving health and alleviating ailments, and mitigating social disparities through education, resources, historic perspectives, technologies, and communication
Current strengths: Leading research and education about how experiments in governance and social institutions can change our lives, and understanding how the arts and humanities contribute to individual and social well-being
Future growth: Inventing new health-care technologies and "smart" materials (e.g., sensors, cheaper diagnostics, better nutrition, wireless health, use of stem cells or personalized medicines) and advanced manufacturing methods accessible to all the world's populations
3. Exploring the Basis of Human Knowledge, Learning, and Creativity
Probing the structure and workings of the human brain to discover the relationship between the brain and behavior; the impact of genetics, history, and culture on how we think and act; the surging and ebbing movements of nations and populations; and the nature of knowledge itself
Current strengths: Synergy among pioneering advances in neurosciences, cognitive sciences, and neurobiology
Future growth: Partnering neuroscientists with philosophers and engineers, nanoengineers with visual artists, and computer scientists with musicians to collaborate in mapping and understanding the brain to reveal deeper insights into learning, cognition, creativity, and diseases
4. Understanding Cultures and Addressing Disparities in Society
Revealing the full richness and breadth of human experience: build an appreciation of diverse cultures, perspectives, value systems, historical contexts, governance, and organizational structures; and foster the creation of new means of expression, analyses, and social organizations that will be important intellectual tools for the next generation
Current strengths: Students and faculty of diverse backgrounds and viewpoints
Future growth: Improving literacy and empowerment, developing new modes of global communication, creating "humanistic resources" encouraging our students to be emissaries, generating foundational knowledge about human cultures and behavior through in-depth local studies and broad comparative analyses, formulating new public policy and ethical guidelines, and understanding and imagining possible new worlds
Strategy 7
Attract, retain, and grow our top-quality and diverse faculty body.
The faculty are the foundation of our campus and the reason we have achieved such a high level of distinction. UC San Diego must continue to attract and retain a diverse, top-quality faculty body of scholars and researchers in order to meaningfully address present and future grand research themes and challenges.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion: Increase the diversity of our faculty to enhance our intellectual, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
Over the last three years, our faculty recruitment efforts have begun to yield positive results. We have increased the number of underrepresented minorities and women in our applicant pools, and our selection processes have dramatically increased the yield of these candidates. Our improved practices are also providing a cadre of scholars who, regardless of discipline, are committed to issues of diversity and equity, and to creating a climate of inclusion. These practices include efforts to improve outreach, recruitment, and selection of diverse faculty; writing broader position descriptions; creating Excellence positions that include a candidate's contributions to diversity, scholarly excellence, and future potential as essential criteria; requiring diversity statements from all candidates; establishing regular training for chairs and search committees on how to evaluate candidate portfolios and avoid unconscious bias; and creating a website that lists opportunities for faculty to find and participate in diversity activities.
Though these results are encouraging, we must do more to improve retention and tenure success rates. Faculty diversity needs to reach a critical mass at all levels of our university, from research to teaching and administration, and equity needs to be regularly reviewed in a data-driven process.
To reinforce recruitment successes, events that target underrepresented minorities; women; lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people; and other traditionally marginalized groups will be important tools to ensure that we are aware of and address the particular needs.
A vibrant intellectual community that focuses on issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion will fuel the study of different cultures and efforts to understand and address the causes of social injustice, including disparities in education, health, and employment. To increase our campus's understanding of equity and diversity and to extend the dialogue, we will invite distinguished scholars for short-term and long-term appointments.
Investment: Increase investment in mentoring and leadership development for our faculty.
We will continue to monitor our evaluation processes, support systems, and practices, and identify opportunities to ameliorate them. We have a new mentoring program for assistant professors to focus on how to manage time, work with mentors, and navigate the academic personnel process. All departments are required to assign a mentor to each incoming faculty member at all levels.
We also launched a partnership with the UC San Diego Rady School of Management called the Associate Professor Leadership Development Program. The goals are to empower associate professors by providing them the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to effectively and confidently fulfill their many roles and responsibilities beyond performing research—as leaders, teachers, mentors, advisers, colleagues, supervisors, and more; ensure associate professors understand the organization of UC San Diego, how information flows, and how decisions are made in order to enable professors to better achieve their individual goals; provide a forum in which to build relationships and a support network among associate professors across the campus; provide coaching and mentoring by senior faculty and campus leaders to participants throughout the program and after the program is finished; develop a diverse group of potential campus leaders; and create and sustain an inspired and motivated faculty who feel invested in the success of the campus and supported by the university.
Strategic growth: Define critical areas of future need and areas of strategic growth, and actively recruit and retain faculty who visibly lead the national conversation in research, technology, and higher education policy and strategy.
It will be essential for us to expand in growth areas and fill vacancies due to faculty retirement by actively recruiting and retaining key people. To this end, we have created a multiyear growth plan for faculty. The goal is to add eighty-nine net new faculty, including nine within Scripps Institution of Oceanography and at least twenty joint faculty appointments. We are providing $14 million for ongoing base salaries and benefit support, plus $22 million to assist with start-up packages. In addition, we are addressing faculty compensation compression and adding $6.5 million per year in packages for faculty renewal, which are not growth-related. We are also expanding investments in marine sciences and health sciences to expand their role in undergraduate teaching.
Strategy 8
Grow a high-quality, cost-effective, and diverse graduate program.
Graduate students are the next generation of researchers, scholars, artists, and faculty who will carry forward our mission to transform lives, shape new fields, and push the frontiers of knowledge. During their training, they also provide research support; teach, mentor, and inspire undergraduates; and are essential for meeting the university's teaching obligations under the California Master Plan.
Numbers: Increase the graduate student population and further protect and enhance the quality of the student body.
UC San Diego has a relatively small proportion of graduate students compared to its peer institutions. Increasing the number of these talented and dedicated scholars and supporting them throughout their education is integral to our campus's vision and will also help us attract and retain outstanding faculty and expand our research enterprise—currently a billion-dollar-a-year concern. Through our Graduate Student Growth and Excellence Initiative, we are allocating more than $10 million to help level out the cost associated with recruiting nonresident graduate students. This will enable us to focus on growing our PhD population and the overall quality of our graduate students. We will also launch the Masters Growth Program, which will provide new opportunities for students and an avenue to increase revenue for the campus.
Investment and diversity: Invest in competitive offers for top graduate students. Ensure the recruitment, retention, and success of a diverse population of graduate students by increasing the number and quality of our fellowships and stipends.
We will make significant investments that enhance the diversity and success of our graduate student population. In addition, we will invest in the development and renewal of state-of–the-art facilities. At an institutional level, we will continue to identify, develop, and implement new programs that target diverse populations of undergraduates and their institutions and forge new relationships with them. Fundraising for scholarships and fellowships will be a focus of our upcoming capital campaign. We will also broaden our training for graduate students with the goal of widening their experiences for the evolving workforce.
Career advising: Develop and enhance our graduate student career advising programs to support the exploration of career paths, including those outside academia.
We will develop new advising programs to provide students with information about the varied career options and pathways that are available to them. In addition, we will assist students in understanding their transferrable skills and identifying the soft skills that are critical to their success.
Community integration: Improve the transition to graduate study.
We are committed to developing introductory programs, supporting graduate student interaction across departments/disciplines, and delivering creative options to address graduate student needs.
To improve the graduate student experience and enhance the sense of community, a new graduate student housing complex will be constructed to foster relationships and encourage interaction among the diverse graduate student/professional/family residents.
Strategy 9
Evolve structures and processes to identify trends for investment, and foster innovation, risk-taking, and collaboration.
To ensure that the university does not lose its competitive edge and entrepreneurial spirit, our leaders and administrators must be innovative in finding and providing financial support, offering wise counsel, and fostering collaborative governance. While maintaining our excellence in traditional university departments and other units, we must also create opportunities and structures that encourage the nimble entry of our faculty into new, high-impact, strategic areas of scholarship and research that imagine and establish new frontiers.
Investment: Increase investment in faculty and student collaboration in pursuit of the four grand research themes.
The campus will need to find multiple ways to encourage, incentivize, evaluate, and prioritize the novel ideas that surface. Towards this end, a multipronged approach to investment in faculty full-time equivalents (FTEs), joint hires, graduate and undergraduate challenge grants, seed grants for joint collaborative work, core facilities, and conferences will be necessary. We have already begun our investment through the faculty growth plan and Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program, as well as funding new academic initiatives such as the Advanced Energy Initiative, the Maker Lab, and the Design Lab. Faculty will leverage these assets through grants, philanthropy, industry, and global partnerships. Robust technology commercialization and entrepreneurship opportunities will also be necessary to achieve the highest possible societal impact.
Improved coordination: Assess and improve our organizational structures and processes to remain at the forefront of interdisciplinary research.
In recent years we have encountered significant challenges, including state and federal budget cuts and higher costs related to new governmental regulations and programs. Increased governmental compliance and reporting burdens, higher mandatory costs, and less fiscal flexibility are unfortunate facts of recent institutional life. Traditionally, institutions react by cutting services and capacity, but we have opted for a more strategic approach.
To remain at the forefront of interdisciplinary research, we are improving coordination across the campus, and implementing new models for collaboration, interdisciplinary research, and education. Specifically, we are reviewing and cultivating our relationships with local industry, nongovernmental organizations, and other community institutions that share our vision.
Finally, we will make sure we have flexible and agile organizational structures supported by new allocation models with enhanced incentive and reward structures. These new models will establish the appropriate balance between investing in new strategic areas and continuing to nurture and support unit-specific research needs and individual expression.
New models: Review the tools and the foundational expertise necessary to successfully implement initiatives related to emerging and future trends.
We are assessing the capacity, capability, interest, and flexibility required of all critical resources to adequately support any initiative associated with a thematic area or with our traditional research and scholarship ventures. This includes identifying and pursuing the appropriate tools to handle the intersection of big data, complex analytics, and visualization as they relate to modeling policy, social interventions, and social networking scenarios. To respond to emerging and future trends in a timely fashion, we will make sure we have flexible and agile organizational structures that are supported by new allocation models with enhanced incentives and rewards.


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Concerned K-12 public school parents from Brookfield, Wauwatosa and Milwaukee will rally on Tuesday evening at a planned legislator town hall hosted by State Senator Leah Vukmir and State Representatives Dale Kooyenga and Rob Hutton.At a legislator town hall last week in Wauwatosa, Mr. Kooyenga refused to commit support for a $200 per pupil increase in 2018 and a $204 per pupil increase in 2019 proposed in Governor Scott Walker's state budget."I was disappointed and concerned with manyof his answers," says Stacy Lynch, a Wauwatosa mom and President of Support Our Schools Wauwatosa (SOS). "When asked if he would pledge, at a minimum, to support the amount of money that Republican Governor Scott Walker put in his proposed budget for public schools this year, Rep. Kooyenga said 'no.'"Attendees can learn more and RSVP on the SOS Wauwatosa event listing on Facebook: https://www.
facebook.com/events/ 1333679923392449/WHO/WHAT: Concerned public school parents will gather to attend a Legislator Town Hall with State Senator Leah Vukmir, and State Representatives Dale Kooyenga and Rob HuttonWHEN: On Tuesday, March 21 at 6 pmWHERE: The Brookfield Public Safety Building, 2011 N. Calhoun Road in BrookfieldWHY: Governor Scott Walker has proposed a $200 per pupil increase in K-12 funding in 2018, and a $204 per pupil increase in 2019. Rep. Dale Kooyenga refused to commit support for that funding increase at a legislator town hall last week.Governor Walker and the state legislature has made large cuts to K-12 public school funding; in fact, there has been a cumulative decrease of $2.6 billion over the past 6 years, according to the Wisconsin Budget Project.ABOUT SOS WAUWATOSA:
SOS is an independent, nonpartisan citizen group that advocates for quality public education in Wauwatosa and in the state of Wisconsin.
SOS believes that public schools are the heart of Wisconsin's communities. We are dedicated to the educational success of all children through strong family and community engagement in our public schools. SOS supports the Wauwatosa School District and its excellent teachers, and will work with the District to advocate for quality public education and appropriate funding for public schools in Wauwatosa and throughout Wisconsin. We will communicate accurate and timely information to parents and community members about what Wisconsin's public schools need to thrive.
Learn more at http://www.SOSWauwatosa.org
Contact: Shawn Rolland, 414-795-5971

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Thanks, Joy. I want to point out that there may be more Quakers than you think among the WEST family. Our Thomas West, Sr. family records can be found (in order) Granville, Bute (later discontinued into Warren & Franklin Cos.), Orange and then Chatham County before the family went into many separate directions.
Now, a little geographical history of early NC county formation. In 1752 Orange County was formed from 3 counties: Bladen, Granville & Johnston. In 1752 Thomas West was recorded in Granville Co. to the east of newly formed Orange Co. In 1764, Bute Co. was formed from the eastern 1/2 of Granville Co. where we can find records of Thomas West. In 1770, Guilford is formed out of the west 1/3 of Orange county (along with a near equal size of land from Rowan County resulting in Orange & Guilford being about the same size, side by side; except in the same year, Chatham County is formed from the S.E. 1/6 part of Orange County. Therefore in 1770, Guilford adjoined the entire western borders of Orange & Chatham County. In 1777 Caswell Co. took the N. 1/2 of Orange Co. reducing its size to nearly the same as Chatham Co. In 1778, Randolph was formed from the 1/3 S. part of Guilford making Randolph and Chatham sharing the exact same border between them, while the new S. half of Guilford's eastern border is shared with Orange County. Then, in 1785, Rockingham County was formed out of Guilford Co. reducing it to the same size as Orange Co. The result being that Guilford & Orange are at the top of a near square group of 4 counties with Randolph and Chatham being at the bottom. All four counties are about the same size, as well. This remained that way until 1849 when Alamance was formed out of the eastern 1/2 of Orange County squeezing in between Guilford & Orange, now making it into a 5-county square with 3 across the top!
I suspect that for many reading this the geography above is confusing... it is not to me; however, remember, I have been studying these county formations for about 35 years! The part to remember is that the area that became Guilford County was in very close proximity (actually was part of) the counties that Thomas West and family were. This whole area of North Carolina was the home of many Quaker families leaving Virginia with Guilford County becoming heavily inhabited by Quakers. Thomas West, Sr. son Ignatius West had a son William who married a woman by the name of Cook... she died quite young and William left little Abram with the Cook family of Guilford Co. while William decided to travel to Christian County, where his Uncle Thomas West had moved. He married a Lacy woman from Chatham County - they had twins that were born just after William had died! They grew up and were known as the West Brothers Gunsmiths. They were the half brothers of Abram. Now Abram married Sina Hadley, and they migrated with the Hadley's to Hendricks County, Indiana just east of Marion Co. which is Indianapolis (the state capital). I discovered last year that Hendricks Co. had a township known as Guilford Township... I thought that was interesting. At the library, I soon discovered that the Quakers who settled there were from Guilford Co., NC led by Abram West's father-in-law Hadley! Now, without any proof, I suspect that William West named his son Abram as a good Quaker name because his in-laws the Cook family were Quakers. A few generations later in Hendricks County, IN, Abram and his family became Methodists or Baptists... I will have to verify which denomination they became.
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I am very interested to know why, after pregnancy, I had a "Honey-Moon" affect after giving birth. There was no need for medication, no insulin, etc. After about 2 weeks, my body went back to its diabetic state. What happened to my body that made Diabetes go away for a while? Does this happen to all women after giving birth? Sorry for the many questions! :)
Hi Annie! I unfortunately do not have an answer for you as I am not a medical professional. I would consult your doctor about this. Also....No apologies needed for the questions wished I could have helped more!


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On Saturday, March 25, Shay Mitchell attended the 34th Annual PaleyFest LA presentation of the 'Pretty Little Liars' TV Series at The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA. For the event, she wore a cream-colored midi dress by Cushnie et Ochs from their Fall 2017 Collection. She topped of the look with Jacquie Aiche jewelry and Giuseppe Zanotti pumps.
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Tag Archives: new Audi A6 Saloon
Audi S6 Saloon 2015 To Take Your Breath Away
Many a time our expectations are carved by previous set of experiences. Isn't that so true? And more so, when it comes to new vehicles. We have a different set of expectations from every brand and what they have delivered in the past influences a lot of it. You cannot really free yourself from the clutches of experiences and expectations. Even though we are always told about facelifts that they ought to be taken with a pinch of salt, it can safely be stated that it is not possible to really control where our mind goes. Imagine, now, the new Audi A6 Saloon is ready to delight us with a facelift. It is going to be a new ride, a new experience and a new joy on wheels altogether. Therefore, it makes very little sense to even bring in to the scene the A6 Avant Ultra or any other creation by Audi. After all, it is a new baby and it should be treated like one, but people just can't dissociate it from what all Audi has delivered so far!
Yes, there are traces of the older features but then those are signature features, well, almost. So, the new Audi A6 Saloon comes with new touches on the exterior that make it look extremely mean, one that can cause a rampage without even trying. There is an ultra new set of LED headlights that can't be ignored at any cost. Then mind you about the new additions in terms of chrome scattered through its body. These make it look absolutely stunning. Add to these features the ferocious looking bumpers and grille and you have yourself an absolutely magnificent creature, one that is born to rule. So, at some point of time you feel it is pointless to establish parallels between this one and any other vehicle whether by Audi or some other company. Ultimately it is about what a car delivers and if it comes with great looks and performance then there is very little one is left with, to complain about.
They are certain that the new Audi A6 Saloon definitely is going to flaunt more power. There are no two ways about it. Then there is more you can credit the engineers for. This time the 4-litre twin turbo V8 can actually deliver around 30 bhp, which is quite an impressive figure, most people would agree. There is more to this good news. Well, in addition to all the power boost, the fuel consumption has been revised too. It is now close to 30.7 mpg as against the previous 29.4 mpg. And that is not all. The environmental sensitivity is on the show for the CO2 release has been dropped to 214g/km, which is easily around 5% drop.
All in all, one can safely stay tuned for the new Audi A6 Saloon for it is a very promising creation, one that is more than just a facelift. It is a new experience that has been thoughtfully created and we certainly can't keep waiting for long!


text: Hi, I have just started a Open University course and I am thinking of buying an iPad for my studies. I would like to transfer all my course study texts & videos which are PDF files and Avi files to the iPad so that I can read/watch them as and when. If you connect the iPad to your PC - can you just drag and drop the files? I don't seem to get on very well with iTunes etc which is why I am asking about being able to just transfer files like you would with Windows on a PC etc. Bren.


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In short, if one were to take all of the pop culture components necessary to make great comic books with a bit of alchemy and a bit of luck and put them into a great big cauldron, POPBOT would be goo scraped off of the sides of that cauldron, cut with Dran-O, and sold to kids in schoolyards as the next big high. Panicked, overwrought editorials about POPBOT should be sprinkling your local news and Presidential Task Forces should be appointed to stop the POPBOT pandemic. It's a dirty street drug, the kind of which urban legends spring from and nascent pro-ballers die from smoking once, only once!, and for which they are always remembered.
Which is to say POPBOT has everything that makes a good pop comic between its covers, in wildly distorted quantities and all fucked up with other weird junk thrown in to make it a taste, a hit, a high, similar to much but unique unto itself at the same time. POPBOT has some nasty, dirty shit in its mix; it's a public menace I tell you, and one that must be stopped with taxpayer dollars, before it warps and shatters another young mind.
Matt Fraction splits his time between motion graphics and design house MK12, writing comics, and reading comics. He is the author of the graphic novels The Annotated Mantooth and Last of the Independents, both available from AiT/Planet Lar. He can be found on the web at mattfraction.com. His wife is hot.


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Please take a moment and forward this information to your greater community so they can also participate in the wisdom of this great community and this unique way of learning. Don't forget about all the different ways you can participate in the community as there are many things you can do to interact and learn from this experience. Finally, leave your short reflections on the Community Wishing Wall (160 characters or less) as you learn from the words and resources left behind by members of our community.
Lorri Carroll
I Flipped!
I had read about "reverse teaching" and the "flipped classroom" a while ago. Being an algebra teacher myself, Karl Fisch is one of those teachers I admire and love to learn from. Check out Fisch Algebra 2010-11 and you will understand why. And last week, after some discussion on Twitter about it, it piqued my interest again. With yet another snow day looming, I decided to…[MORE]
[NAISAC11 Comment: This post draws on the work of Salman Khan who is one of our general session speakers at this year's conference. You can learn more about Salman Khan and the Khan Academy at this year's conference. You may want to preview some of Salman Khan's work before the conference.
Peter Gow
A School is… ( Verse 9 )
There's a good deal of buzz these days (even here) about payments and services in lieu of taxes (the infamous PILOTs and SILOTs), charges and demands for services that communities are attempting to levy on independent schools and other nonprofits to meet growing budget gaps. We have to ask ourselves…[MORE]
The next two blog posts draw from the texts of Henry David Thoreau. The first by Linda Vasu looks at "Walking" and draws on the lessons of Thoreau as she examines her hopes for what students find in their reading. The second by Mark Crotty examines the demands placed on kids as he looks to a future screening of Race to Nowhere. All this as viewed from the lessons of Walden where Thoreau explains why he entered the woods. Both of these are well worth the read and hopefully, a short reflection on the wishing wall.
Linda Vasu
Un-schooling students. Liminality. Intelligence in the wild
Thoreau wrote in Walking , "In wildness is the preservation of the world." Delivered first as a lecture, then published in Atlantic in 1851, it is an impassioned plea for the pleasures of sauntering, a type of walking meditation that affords reflection, inquiry, and creative thinking. "Wildness" is my metaphor for learning. For thinking outside the box, off the…[MORE]
Mark Crotty
On Your Mark! Get Set!…
Henry David Thoreau explains towards the beginning of Walden, I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not….Why did Thoreau begin his little experiment? He had a pretty wide streak of civil disobedience running through him, but he wasn't anti-social. In fact, while he craved…Imagine if he were suddenly transported to America 2011…[MORE]
Bill Fitzgerald
Notes from Educon session: Crowdsourcing the death of the textbook.
This post takes you on a short journey with Bill who presented this session at the 2011 Educon conference in Philadelphia. You can read his notes…[MORE]
Susan Carter Morgan
It it true? Am I programming forgetfulness?
I am listening to Opening to Our Lives with Jon Kabat-Zinn, a podcast about mindfulness tweeted by @micwalker this morning. But I am also writing this post. Kabat-Zinn asks: Can you hold this moment in awareness? No, I can't. And I wonder if all this multi-tasking is having a profound effect on my memory. This weekend I attended…[MORE]
RT by @mattscully
Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school, by Mark Slouka
While this is not Matt's blog, this was something that was shared by @kyle_kauffman on Twitter and then forwarded through a process known as "Re-Tweeting" or RT. The tweet read:
RT @kyle_kauffman: Insightful essay on balancing humanities with science and math in our schools (TinyURL)
The link provided in the tweet takes you to a dropbox with an essay that was published in a 2009 issue of Harpers Magazine- Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school by Mark Slouka. Sit back and enjoy an electronic version of this essay as posted on the Harper's Magazine site.
The NAISAC11 Daily
(Collected from tweets of 141 community members)
The NAISAC11 Community Daily
(Collected from 142 community members from the Twitter List)
Featured Tweets
Reverse Instruction: Dan Pink and Karl's "Fisch Flip"
The "Fisch Flip" post on ConnectedPrincipals:http://bit.ly/crFzXz Transform teaching by reverse learning: http://bit.ly/crFzXz #educon
First all-digital science textbook will be free| Wired Science
Thanks RT @dwarlick: Here is article on Wilson text book,http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/wilson-free-biology-textbook/ #educon
I Flipped! Lorri's Blog
Kudos to @lcarroll94 for a successful 1st "flip" of her Algebra class & her post about the success: http://bit.ly/dHeRA6 #educon#isedchat
There are many more articles linked through the tweets from this community collection. Take a moment to explore each issue and post your reflections (160 characters or less) on the Community Wishing Wall.


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Half-Inch Heist Review
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Mutant Labs clearly set out to make an arcade game with Half-Inch Heist. To that end, they succeeded: this is an intense quarter muncher that will frustrate players at every turn, demanding more money in order to ssee more of the game and to get higher scores.
Only problem is that it's an iPhone game, not an arcade machine. Whoops.
The goal of Half-Inch Heist is simple: touch the diamond on screen and drag it without letting go, while dodging missiles, enemies, crushing columns, and other obstacles. Bosses occasionally pop up, and the player must remain on their green weak point to damage them, while also avoiding hazards that come at them.
Now, the "without letting go" part is where things get tricky. See, if the player lets go, it's game over. Touch another part of the screen? Game over. The game is likely iPhone-only for this reason: too many accidental touches happen on the iPad. The game is playable on the iPad, and is a bit easier, but it requires delicate care.
Now, the other problem with being unable to let go is that it makes it impossible to reposition one's finger in order to not obscure part of the screen, so part of the difficulty comes from external obstruction. For example, the first boss, Airbear (not to be confused with Origin8's AirBear) can be defeated by staying on its weak point from the very beginning and not moving – it can be defeated before the swarm of bees get to the player. This is apparent on the iPad where there's less finger obfuscation, but on the iPhone, it most decidedly is not.
Now, the other part of the frustrating equation is that not only is it easy to die, it's pricey to continue. It costs 300 coins to continue, and coins are hard to come by – a boss will drop about 50 coins, though collecting them all is tricky. So, in-app purchases play a big role here: $0.99 buys 1500 coins, and they're solely used for continuing, nothing else. It just feels insulting to have this kind of cash-hungry system, even in a game that's free, because there is little forgiveness shown to players, and a good run can be ended for any silly number of reasons. And I only felt compelled to even consider buying coins out of frustration, not out of enjoyment of the game. It's not the way to go.
It's a shame, because Half-Inch Heist can be nerve-wracking in a good way, the chiptune music is intense and a great fit, and I enjoy the pixel art style. With some tweaks to be more user-friendly, I think this could be a challenging-yet-fun game, instead of merely challenging my patience.


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The Bay Search and Rescue Team have been awarded cash out of a government fund to equip thir volunteers with recognised off-road driving skills.
The money, £5,100, awarded by the UK Search & Rescue Volunteer Training Fund and administered by the Charities Aid Foundation, is part of a four million pound investment by the government to subsidise training for rescue volunteers in recognition of the contribution they make to the community.
BaySAR Training Officer Mike Davis said: "As an all-terrain search and rescue team we specialise in using our fleet of vehicles to search for missing people on behalf of the police, access casualties for the ambulance service and response to people in distress on the coast when called by the Coastguard.
"Being able to respond quickly and safely is crucial to our role and this money from the UK SAR Volunteer Training Fund will help our volunteers to access quality off-road 4x4 driver training resulting in nationally-accredited qualifications, which is important when we're operating alongside the emergency services."
Bay Search & Rescue operates two 4x4 vehicles vehicles - a Land Rover Discovery and Land Rover 130 - alongside its distinct orange tracked Hagglund vehicles.


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|This shot shows the in-game stats for the current battleground you are in. Including total kills, deaths, killing blows as well as stats for strategic positions (Graveyards, Towers and Mines).
|This one shows the in-game map of the battlegrounds zone with Alliance in blue and the Horde in red. It shows who currently holds the strategic positions in the battlegrounds.
|Here you see the graveyard when dead where the Alliance Spirit Guide resurrects alliance players every 30 seconds to full health and mana.
|And this one shows the magical effect of being resurrected at the graveyard with several Alliance members re-spawning at the same time.
|Here you see the central area of the battlegrounds with a Horde keep in the distance.
|This shot shows a mounted Alliance patrol.
|These two screen shots show the Horde being pushed back from one of the Alliance graveyards into their own territory (Unfortunately that rogue behind me in the last screenshot did manage to kill me).
The second battleground "Warsong Gulch" Is completely different to the Alterac battleground. It is actually a 10 vs. 10 game of Capture The Flag (CTF) which has proven to be a lot of fun. The following images were taken from there:
|Here is a shot of the Alliance castle.
|This shows the middle of the battlegrounds with the Horde castle in the distance as well as one sneaky rogue who quickly died.
|Lastly, here you see the mighty gnome mage Venar racing down the main entrance of the Horde base carrying the Horde flag.
I hope you enjoyed these images! Look for the Battlegrounds patch coming to the World of Warcraft live servers very soon!


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Museum Will Return Khmer Statues to Cambodia
Monday, May 6, 2013
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to repatriate to Cambodia two life-size, tenth-century statues known as "The Kneeling Attendants," based upon evidence suggesting that the statues had been looted from the Koh Ker temple complex during Cambodia's civil war. Witnesses place the statues at the temple complex as late as 1970, and officials at the museum were presented with photographs of the statues' broken-off bases, which remain in situ. The Met received the statues as two heads and two torsos as separate gifts between 1987 and 1992. "This is a case in which additional information regarding the Kneeling Attendants has led the museum to consider facts that were not known at the time of the acquisition and to take the action we are announcing today," Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum, said last Friday.
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Review: The Bounce #8
The Bounce has proven to develop into a story without boundaries. It's not easy to make it in this world having superpowers. That is what any of us would think is impossible considering every other story out there with superhero beginnings, but here Joe Casey shows how it can bring nothing but chaos to a world that doesn't know how to handle a concept so new. Not only is the origin still unknown to those with powers and the general public, the question itself changes their lives. Joe Casey has turned this into an experience of a lifetime to those involved.
S#!t certainly did hit the fan in a big, bad way. From the beginning as well which is why you admire the fact that this book strives to be something more mature. The idea that having such heroes as The Bounce in a world like this would easily equal a safer world, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. This book tends to be real with the realization that people with powers can only bring about a rise in crime and discord. That alone adds to the portrayal of a world where there are real consequences for your actions. Realism is what is making this a well constructed plot. Now with that said, there also is a good balance between the real world and the world of origin where these powers came from. The Bounce's grip on this reality is getting looser as time progresses and that struggle to make sense of both gives us more clarity as to the questions that have been posed since the start.
With Darling ready to put his plans into motion, you do tell yourself that it is about time. It is the one point in this story that has the most mystery surrounding it. He knows what's really going on and a lot of suspense has been building up in terms of his end game. It's obviously going to be something big considering who he may be talking to on the other side that is pulling the strings.
The layout of this issue has been unique in terms of the way that the panels are organized. Overlapping and having a great use of space to make this more appealing visually. Other than that David Messina's style remains astounding with his use of soft colors, bold colors, color variations and highlight bringing this story to life through both worlds.
This issue has definitely made some progress transitioning from how the last issue ended. The only problem that comes out of this issue is that while you find some clarity, you are left again wondering what Jasper will do next. We know he seeks answers, though his lack of direction can be somewhat puzzling at this point. In the end you see that this story is slowly reaching it's climax. You can question the intentions though have faith that everything will make sense in the grand scheme with the note that this issue ends on. It is an interesting way that this issue ended.
You may still have questions, but there is clear progression that Joe Casey is building towards.


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Monday Night Football features the Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints.
Atlanta captured their first win of the season last Sunday, while the Saints still search for win number one after back to back down to the wire losses.
Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons held off the Raiders late rush to secure win number one on the season in a 35-28 victory.
QB Matt Ryan made every play he was asked to in the victory as he finished 26 of 34 for 396 yards with 3 touchdown passes.
Ryan has delivered in both of the Falcons games this season as he has Atlanta averaging 355.5 pass yards per game and 451 total yards per game.
While Julio Jones has gotten all the attention from opposing defenses, TE Jacob Tamme has taken advantage of the situations.
Tamme has a team high 11 receptions for 126 yards this season to go along with a touchdown. Tamme has been extremely useful close to the end zone and in short yardage situations.
Expect him to be targeted a lot here, as the Saints defense has a lot of holes in it.
New Orleans Saints
The Saints luck just hasn't been there through the first couple games of the season.
After blowing the lead late against Oakland and allowing them to convert a 2 point conversion inside a minute, the Giants knocked a field goal through in the dying moments to push the Saints to 0-2 on the season.
It's no secret why the Saints have been bad over the last few seasons and that trend has continued into this season.
New Orleans has allowed 451.5 yards per game and allowed 368 yards through the air last game against Eli Manning. Everything from the secondary to the defensive front has just been atrocious.
Another major problem has been the run game for New Orleans. They had just 41 yards in last weeks loss. RB Mark Ingram will have to get himself going asa he has been a struggle.
NFL Betting Trends:
- Falcons are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 road games vs. a team with a losing home record.
- Falcons are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 road games.
- Falcons are 3-11 ATS in their last 14 games overall.
- Saints are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 vs. NFC.
- Saints are 3-1-1 ATS in their last 5 games following a ATS win.
- Saints are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games overall.
4* Free NFL Betting Prediction:New Orleans -3
The Saints haven't played necessarily bad offensively as they could just as easily be 2-0.
Here, at home, on a Monday night. The Superdome will be rocking. Look for them to feed off the crowd in this one.
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Kundalini Yoga is an original and complete form of yoga and is also being refered to as 'the yoga of awareness'. Typically are the dynamic exercises, the focus on the breath and the use of mantras (sound). Using special combinations of different yoga techniques results are being achieved fast and consciously. In addition to yoga sets, kriyas and meditations this ancient science offers a complete insight in all aspects of yogic lifestyle: food and diet, personal maintenance, water therapy, sleeping and waking up, communication, relationships and much more.
The exercises have a strong cleansing effect whereby toxins, but also pain, fear, stress and frustrations are being disolved. Kundalini Yoga helps you to become aware of your physical, mental and emotional condition and simultaneously improve your health and wellbeing.
Kundalini Yoga is the supreme technology to awaken your awareness and take you into your original Self. It is a natural unfolding of your own nature. It teaches you how to gain a strong immune system, vital glands, a strong nervous system, good circulation, and an awareness of the impact of your habits.
Kundalini Yoga is the fastest way to establish an aligned relationship between the body, mind and the soul.
Yogi Bhajan / master of Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga is for everyone. It offers a huge variety of different techniques and guidelines suitable for any person in any situation. Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of the householder, designed for people who have daily responsibilities and live busy lives. This yoga will help and support you to become more effective, efficient and authentic in whatever it is you do.
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Digital Death collection
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Call for Chapters [Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age]
Digital Death collection
Welcome to digital death
'Since it's creation in the late 1960s, the internet, has been a wealth of easily accessible information on any topic, a useful tool. However in recent years, it's status as a 'tool' for knowledge extraction has been far surpassed. The internet has become an engaging space where people choose to spend time; socializing, buying, selling and living. The movement of the internet from informational navigation tool to a community marks a new form of social phenomenon.'
Although describing the internet as a 'community' is certainly not groundbreaking, this word, this 'community,' was my spark and continues to be central to my research into virtuality. I observe, firstly my own immersion in the digital world, with the hope of extrapolating some of 'the complex interrelations between a person's personal computer and their digital self.'
This blog will hopefully give you an insight into my head and how I have become fascinated by the socio-virtual space, divulging into areas of the digital world, I have termed:
Digital Death, Digital Afterlife and Digital Heritage.


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Critics' Pick
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Queens, NY 11101
Official Website
May: Fri, 4pm-3am; Sat, noon-3am; Sun, 1pm-10pm; Mon-Thu, closed; June-Oct: Mon-Thu, 4pm-10pm; Fri, 4pm-3am; Sat, noon-3am; Sun, 1pm-10pm; Nov-Apr, closed
Nearby Subway Stops
7 at Vernon Blvd.-Jackson Ave.
Payment Methods
American Express, MasterCard, Visa
This venue is closed.
Long Island City is full of quirky surprises, and this is no exception. New York Water Taxi trucked in Jersey sand and a couple dozen picnic tables and installed them in a fenced-in perch overlooking the East River, right next to the Hunters Point ferry stop. The on-site tiki hut slings basic blender drinks and dirt-cheap PBR tallboys, and serves up the usual grill options, along with delicacies like elk burgers, pulled pork sandwiches, and Black Angus hot dogs (vegetarian options, too) from founding chef Harry Hawk's menu. Five nights a week during the summer and early fall, extended families and PS1 defectors play volleyball to a thumping sound system or recline in the beach chairs that they bring to avoid the fight for table space. Service can get slow and scattered at night, when big candles come out and the party turns into a miniature desert rave, but all is forgiven upon admiring the best view of midtown Manhattan this side of The Donald's chopper.
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Motto / Life vision
In order to be irreplaceable, you must always be different.
Study programme
Master in Geophysics, Aarhus University
Personal profile
I like to be part of different societies and groups that organise activities with heterogenous subjects. Also, I have to admit that I'm addicted to having friends and spend time with them. I'm a very enthusiastic person, always looking to meet new people, exchange experiences and of course having a great time!
Your student experience at Lærdansk Aarhus
I have to admit that at the beginning it was really dificult to make some connections and learn the basic things. After 2-3 weeks, I realised that I am able to read and understant a text and also understand people from the bus and shops. It's really funny beacause they think that you don't understand them! :))
A funny experience from when you started to learn/use the Danish language
I remember when one of my teachers was talking with my colleagues about me and at the end of the conversation I said that I heard and understood every word and they were really surprised! Haha, maybe I shouldn't tell them that!
Your experience as an Ambassador
For me it was a great experience. Firstly, I had the opportunity to meet new and amazing people and life stories. Secondly, during these months, I learned how to better promote events and I interacted with Danish and international students at a professional level.
Short description of your individual project
My individual project was to find interesting and unique places from the city, take a picture and then write a short poem about them, thus offering some insight. I included Danish words and I tried to make it as funny as possible. For me, it was a good way to start exploring the city of Aarhus. You can see an example of the post here.
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Either my cat is high on the cat nip I thoughtfully planted, or he's been watching too many Tom Cruise movies (oh, the shame). As I type, he is skuttling and skidding around on the linoleum on the other side of the living room door, now and then coming to a halt in the door frame. Most likely to make sure I am still watching from the sofa (rather like the aforementioned ego-maniacal, press-seeking "actor").
Oh, and in case you were wondering about this speight of posts after such a long silence, yes, I have updated some of my other sites too. Mello Yello gets a mention, and I waffled for a few paragraphs about being moved. I do have plans for my sites, which I may or may not actually put into action. So, keep your eyes open, but don't hold your breath. ;-)


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WASHINGTON -- There was Washington Bullets coach Jim Lynam back in his element -- on a basketball court. Pacing from one basket to another he shouted directions, gave brief lessons and even stopped play to offer one of his colorful verbal exchanges.
While the "coaching" Lynam was doing was at a clinic to dedicate a refurbished basketball court, the events over the past few days have him hopeful he'll soon get back to work.
Yesterday the NBA player representatives, by a vote of 25-2, voted to approve the six-year collective bargaining agreement. Coming one day after an effort to decertify the union fail- ed, the league is set to end its lockout if owners approve the deal in a vote that could occur as soon as tomorrow.


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I love this workout! It's very different from my other walking dvds/videos. The workout is chaptered but clicking on 'play all' doesnt' make it flow uninterrupted. It would stop and go to another screen then automaticaly go to the next section. I'm overweigth butn ot totally beginner and this one got my heartrateup with a few added arm movements and jogs. I found this to be a fun workout. the cameroa work would show them on bilboards, moveie screens, setting changes sometimes fvery fast like a flicker/flash. this might bother some but I found it kept the workout interesting. they also wear cowboy hats in some of the scenes and semi-western wear. hard to describe but I wont' do this one daily but will mix it in weekly or monthly(I have a lot of exercise stuff!) the ab work is done standing and some of it is mixed in with the cardio. In the cardio you pretend you're on the face of a clock and she does 12 then 2 & 10 and 3&9 and 4&8 for the moves. some knee lifts and using light weights for the standing abs(arms got a workout too!)
overall I like this one and would say it's similar to a fast paced leslie but mixed with ellen barrett style standing pilates in places. her personality is chatty like leslie and bubbly like Denise Austin a bit.
a nice change of pace from my usual walking dvds.
Instructor comments:
excited! a bit hyper and talk-ey. I liked her a lot in this type of workout though.
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Here is what i intend to do for a near futur.
Roadmap is avaible as
Beyond what is in the Roadmap, here is the 'spirit'
of The WebDruid.
The ultimate goal is to produce a full featured generic web site
analysis tool. Here are the areas where i intend to bring improvements:
Open development methods
I do believe that one of the keys for the success
of a free software is it's development method. I really like to
hear suggestions from other people. If you know the C programming
language and/or HTML & XML, and you have suggestions for improvements,
or if you have a patch for this really great feature you think should
be really useful, just drop
me a note.
Ease of use
The WebDruid is already easy to use for the system
administrator (at least, i hope so...). But issues have been reported
when showing the reports to non technical people. The HTML report
may be improved to be easier to understand, maybe by including online
explanations, and FAQ in the report itself.
The WebDruid is already a rather fast tool, but there
is potential for (at least)a 30% speed increase. This will require
to build a custom memory allocation system.
Thanks to the work of Bradford l. Barrett, this tool
is already highly customizable. Some people use it just to grab
figures from it, and build their own report system on the top of
it. I do believe we can do even better, by separating the computation
part, from the report generation part. A way to achieve this goal
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Association of Territorial Engineers of France (AITF)
The purpose of AITF is to represent the profession, ensure technical assistance to local authorities, to energise the profession, promote the profession and the necessary technical expertise of territorial communities, and to advise and protect professional activities. In French, the organisation is known as Association des Ingénieurs Territorial de France (AITF).
Website: www.aitf.fr
National President:
Patrick Berger
Director of Landscape & Biodiversity City of Montpellier
Representative on IFME Board:
Maurice Barth
Moderator, AITF International Working Group
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During the development of the first Bubble Bound, in late 2008, I found it difficult to create complex worlds through code alone or through external editors. Therefore, in order to stay productive and agile, I decided I needed to build an in game editor for any future projects. When development on Bubble Bound 2 began, I started to work asynchronously on an in-game editor.
- Add/Select/Delete/Move/Rotate/Scale: points, edges, faces, springs (mesh editor)
- Add/Clone/Select/Delete/Move/Rotate/Scale: billboards, models, physics objects (object editor)
- Snap to grid and/or slow down movement for more precise actions
- Move/Rotate/Scale on a single axis
- Change/Update game object properties such as: name, alpha transparency, behavior, spring tensions, forces…etc
- Export/Import game objects to XML
- Seamless integration (compile in "Debug" mode -> includes the editor, compile in "Release" mode -> editor is not included)
- Change view angle and position by hovering near the edge or scrolling with the mouse
Project Inspiration
I really like the user interface Blender has as well as its control scheme. Most of the controls are similar or the same as what they are in blender. In fact, the editor has a mesh editing mode and an object editing mode just like blender does. I also drew a lot of inspiration from the Aquaria and Overgrowth map editors.
The following video shows some of the things that can be done with the editor (note: the user interface around the game window is not captured).


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If You Haven't Seen "The Secret" Yet...
...you are missing a great movie. The Secret can be watched online now for $4.95 or you can buy the DVD. If you choose to, you can watch the movie trailer first. There is also a free, online version here which I haven't seen.
From The Secret website:
This ground-breaking feature length movie presentation reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, travelling through centuries … to reach you. This is The Secret to everything – the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted. In this astonishing program are ALL the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret. For the first time in history, the world's leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it … Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein.Now YOU will know The Secret. And it can change your life forever.


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Op-Ed ColumnistBy David Ignatius
Let's be generous and call the frantic diplomatic maneuvers that have been taking place this week over Iran's nuclear program a "negotiation," Tehran-style.
Op-Ed ColumnistBy David Ignatius
By Etienne Fontaine
PARIS (AFP) — A French court on Tuesday freed an Iranian agent jailed for the murder of an exiled prime minister as controversy raged over whether the decision was tied to Iran's release of a young French academic.
Ali Vakili Rad had completed a life sentence for stabbing and strangling to death the shah's last prime minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, at his home outside Paris in August 1991. He became eligible for parole last year.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday it would not halt or slow its drive for toughened sanctions on Iran, despite Tehran's new nuclear swap deal with Turkey and Brazil."It does not change the steps that we are taking to hold Iran responsible for its obligations, including sanctions," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.
Tehran, May 18 – From the Grapevine...
Activists in the south of the capital have filled walls lining the streets with political graffiti urging people to participate in anti-government protests next month to mark last June's uprising.
Tehran, May 17 – From the Grapevine...
Political activists on Sunday wrote graffiti on walls in the eastern district of Tehran, Farrah-Abbad, urging residents to participate in demonstrations marking the anniversary of last June's uprising. They wrote graffiti in Afrasiyabi, Kian and Nabard streets as well as in Abuzar Boulevard and Torenj Park.
"You desperate Khamenei, June uprising is on the way, don't forget about June 20-30", they wrote, referring to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Activists also distributed leaflets in homes, urging residents of the capital's Sa'adat-Abad to join the planned 10-day protests.
A number of residents who read the leaflets gave the activists the home addresses of local regime agents and promised to take part in the demonstrations.
British Parliamentarians have condemned the wave of death sentences handed out to Iranian opposition activists, and called on the Government to impose sanctions on the mullah regime in Tehran.Labour peer Lord Corbett, chairman of the 120-strong British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, said in a statement: "How many more corpses will the mullahs need to prop up their unpopular regime?
EditorialFor the past 30 years, executions have defined the state's systematic reaction to political dissent in Iran. But, after a series of nationwide protests following last year's presidential elections, the use of hangings has taken on a vital significance for the regime. Opponents are not merely executed for physical annihilation but also to spread fear among the rest of the population. How the Iranian people and the international community choose to react could serve as a defining moment for dealing with the regime's persistent threats.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States does not expect Iran to provide any "serious response" to concerns about its nuclear program until the United Nations acts on sanctions, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.
"I believe we will not get any serious response out of the Iranians until after the Security Council acts," the top US diplomat said during a press conference with Britain's new Foreign Secretary William Hague.
On Sunday, Iran executed five Kurdish activists in the Evin prison in Teheran. The executions were carried out at a critical point prior to the anniversary of the 2009 election.
State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gry Larsen commented, "Norway condemns the execution of the five Kurdish activists in Iran last Sunday morning."


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Beginning August 15, 2010, JSC FCU will offer privilege pay on ATM and debit card transactions. If you qualify for privilege pay, the credit union may pay your overdraft ATM or debit card transaction rather than deny the transaction. If you would like to take advantage of this service, you will need to Opt-In.
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We pay overdrafts at our discretion, which means we do not guarantee that we will always authorize and pay any type of transaction. If we do not authorize and pay an overdraft, your transaction will be declined.
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I have this problem where I start multiple projects at once and it takes me forever to finish them.
Right now, I am making myself a wreath and fixing a friend's monogram door hanger, among other things. I did, however, finish my nightstand!
As you may remember from a previous post, it was hot pink. Like, neon hot pink.
If I were a single girl living on my own or with other girls, I would totally have kept it pink! It was super cute! However, my boyfriend's first sentence after bringing it through the door was, "No, that is not going next to our bed." Ha! Can't say I blame him.
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some a ton of leftover paint from painting my desk (I'll post about that later!) and I thought it would look beautiful on the table!
I started by flipping the table upside down and painting the legs. It took about 4 thin coats of paint before the hot pink was fully covered!
There were so many little nooks and crevices that I had to go in with a small paintbrush and do lots of touch ups. As you can see in this picture, there are little paint drips in places that make the surface look a little uneven. This table is pretty old and was picked up at the Salvation Army by my sister, who painted it. Then, my mom painted it hot pink. I sanded it down the best I could, but those little drops don't really bother me. Unless you're really up close, like in this picture, you can't even tell!
I also had to pay close attention to the curves of the table. I used the smaller paintbrush again and went in and gave it a few coats so the hot pink didn't peek out from underneath.
After the legs were painted and dry, I flipped it over and did the top! This picture was taken after 2 thin coats. The pink is almost gone, but still showing through a little bit so I added a few more coats!
After a few more coats of paint and a couple coats of polycrylic, my table was finally finished!
I am in love with the color! And I love that it matches my desk!
The design is so beautiful and looks amazing in that silvery gray!
I added a few pictures, a lamp, and a vase filled with one of my favorite flowers, hydrangeas!
I think it fits right in with my bedroom! I still need to add some throw pillows (although J would happily disagree - he has something against throw pillows)...
...and some art to my walls! I hung up 3 photos in identical frames above our bed that perfectly match the blue in our curtains, but now I need to fill up the wall next to it. I have a painting I bought from Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago that I might but there, but I haven't decided yet.
So, what do you guys think about the table? I absolutely love the color and am really impressed with how it turned out! Let me know what you think in the comments below! And if you have any ideas for art for my empty wall beside my bed, feel free to share! I could use the help!
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I write about a lot of things. Sometimes, particularly with the sheer quantity of text I produce it may even seem like there is nothing I won't write about. But, alas, that is not true.
I used to write about a wider variety of topics, sometimes even controversial topics. You are welcome to read about my policy on "Old Posts" and why — despite the fact that a surprising quantity of old posts stray into that arena of controversy, I neither necessarily defend those posts but neither do I take them down.
But, that said, modern posts — posts written in the second decade of this blog's life — do tend to avoid a number of topics, and here's why.
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1) …writing anything that seems to be an opinion, review, or commentary about City politics or City policies or the operations of City services. This is simply because all my reviews would be glowingly positive and nothing more needs to be said. Oh, and I'm employed by the local municipal government, a government that had a very liberal policy about employees having opinions and a say, but not a policy I'm interested in testing. So there's that, too.
2) …writing or posting anything about co-workers, fellow employees or people I encounter in any sort of professional or volunteer capacity. Not only do people get annoyed when you gossip or rant about them, or just mention them in passing, but it's a very uncool practice in general. People are people, they do people things, good and bad, and to be honest, I've yet to encounter someone who deserved to be called out for anything. So, I don't. Or, I try very hard not to…
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3) …gossiping or ranting about family, friends or people I encounter in the various day-to-day aspects of my life. This is a fine line to walk, if only because if I avoided the topic of friends and family entirely I wouldn't have a blog — or it would be me writing about… well… not much any of the topics I write about now. But, that said, I have a fairly robustly developed sniff-test (one that has evolved and changed over the years of writing) that has frequently led me to re-write or flat-out-delete content from posts. Again, people are people, they do people things, good and bad, and to be honest, I've yet to encounter someone who really deserved to be called out for anything.
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A related threat — illegal sales of U.S. technology — was highlighted when a major military contractor, United Technologies Corp., and two subsidiary units agreed in federal court to pay a $75-million fine for illegally selling embargoed software and components to China that the country used to build a sophisticated attack helicopter called the Z-10.
U.S. officials said Thursday that the fine and other penalties would settle criminal and administrative charges against United Technologies, which is based in Hartford, Conn., and its subsidiaries, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Hamilton Sundstrand. The U.S. prohibits the exporting to China ofU.S. military equipment and technology.
Foreign efforts to obtain U.S. technology in violation of U.S. law are not new, but the cost is rising and is a threat to national security, said C. Frank Figliuzzi, who heads the FBI's counterintelligence division. He said U.S. companies have suffered more than $13 billion in losses from economic espionage in the current fiscal year.


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Blue-chip stocks are oscillating between positive and negative territory today after better-than-expected earnings from two of the nation's largest banks failed to counteract a disappointing report about consumer confidence. With roughly an hour left in the trading session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) is off by 32 points, or 0.21%.
If you've been wondering about the health of the banking sector following the recent surge in interest rates, then wonder no more. Earlier today, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) reported their results from the second quarter of the year. And what a quarter it was! JPMorgan's earnings shot up by 31% on year-over-year basis, while Wells Fargo's climbed by 19%.
Now, to be honest, the banks benefited tremendously from certain accounting-related boosts. Wells Fargo, for example, recorded $1.15 billion less in loan-loss provisions last quarter than it did in the same period last year. But at the same time, both banks reported strong deposit and loan growth, and JPMorgan's investment-banking arm came up huge. Fees from equity and debt underwriting at the nation's largest lender grew an astounding 38%.
Perhaps even more important than the earnings themselves, however, was what the companies' CEOs had to say about the economy. "We continue to see broad-based signs that the U.S. economy is improving and we are hopeful that, as jobs are added and confidence builds, the U.S. economy will strengthen over time," JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon noted in prepared remarks. And here's a portion of what Wells Fargo's John Stumpf said on the bank's conference call:
We continue to be optimistic about the improvements we are seeing throughout the economy. While commercial loan demand is still modest, jobs are being created, consumer confidence is increasing and the housing market continues to demonstrate strong momentum. In fact in the second quarter, the housing market movement was stronger and more broad-based than it has been since before 2008. Sales were up and residential property prices increased by 13% across the country. Yet, affordability still remains attractive even with the increased prices and higher interest rates.
It's worth noting, moreover, that not only were the comments consistent with each other, but they also echo those made by others. In two recent articles, my colleague Morgan Housel collected comments on the economy from some of the nation's most pre-eminent corporate leaders. Here's his piece on a wide swath of executives across multiple industries. And here's his article on the housing market specifically.
This optimism aside, stocks are nevertheless struggling today, thanks in part to a worse-than-expected estimate of consumer confidence. The preliminary July reading of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 83.9 from 84.1 in June.
Also weighing on blue chips this afternoon is the performance of Boeing (NYSE:BA). Around the middle of the trading session, news emerged that yet another of the company's flagship 787 Dreamliners has caught fire, this time on a tarmac at London's Heathrow Airport. The revelation sent Boeing's shares plummeting, and they're down by 4.3% at the time of writing.
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American frame builder Mark Lynskey paid a visit to the BikeRadar offices this week to show us the interesting and relatively new Helix OS titanium frame.
The Helix tube set has been around for a few years and we were impressed by the 2010 frame we tested 18 months ago. Mark admits the helical design wasn't the result of millions of dollars and six years worth of research - it came about through an accidental misalignment of the dies used to shape tubes. But once he started making custom frames out of these tubes for riders who wanted something a little different, he realised he might have stumbled across something that improves the ride quality.
Mark - speaking as an engineer not a marketeer - says this is not down to the type of material, it's more to do with shape. The diamond shape with a gradual 90 degree twist along the length of the tube helps resist torsional and bending forces, which are two of the biggest that act on a frame. What this does is increase the frame's all round stiffness without adding weight compared to standard round tubing.
Not all tubes on the frame have the twist, however. The seat tube is round because it doesn't experience the same torsional forces as the rest of the frame. The chain stays are similarly spared the helical treatment.
Compared to the Helix, the Helix OS (oversized) has an increased diameter downtube, an oversized headtube and a press fit 30 bottom bracket. It's also $US4000 (UK£2999.99) instead of $3000 for the "standard" Helix.
The Helix OS frame weighs roughly 1.4kg (3.1lb), which might be considered heavy by cheaper carbon fibre frame standards. However UK importers Hotlines specced this particular frame with SRAM Red and Enve components to create a 7kg (15.1lb) machine, which will be tested in an upcoming issue of Cycling Plus and featured in Procycling. We're looking forward to putting some time on it too if we can steal it from under their noses.


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Socialist Hollande is new French president
Socialist party leader Francois Hollande defeated conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy to be elected as France's first left-wing president in 17 years.
Hollande, a 57-year-old centre-left moderate, won the vote with between 52 and 53 per cent, according to several estimates
"Europe is watching us. I'm sure that in many European countries there is relief and hope at the idea that austerity does not have to be our only fate," the president-elect said in a victory speech in his constituency of Tulle in central France.
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Jubilant Hollande supporters celebrated outside Socialist Party headquarters and thronged Paris' Bastille square, where revellers danced the night away in 1981 when Francois Mitterrand became the only previous directly elected Socialist president.
Many waved red flags and some carried roses, the party emblem.
Hollande, who has vowed to begin his reforms as soon as he takes office on 15 May, has accepted he will have "no state of grace" leading a country crippled by public debt and in economic crisis, with unemployment nudging a record 10%, a gaping trade deficit, stuttering growth and declining industry.
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The election was marked by fears over European Union-imposed austerity and economic globalisation, and Hollande has said his first foreign meeting will be with German Chancellor Angela Merkel - the key driver of EU budget policy.
Hollande has promised more government spending and higher taxes - including a 75-per cent income tax on the rich - and wants to renegotiate a European treaty on trimming budgets to avoid more debt crises of the kind facing Greece.
That would complicate relations with Merkel, who championed the treaty alongside Sarkozy. Under Sarkozy, France pledged to rein in its spending while the rest of 17 countries that use the euro embark on a strict period of belt-tightening.
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The outgoing president conceded defeat within 20 minutes of polls closing, telling supporters he had telephoned Hollande to wish him good luck in such trying times.
"From the bottom of my heart I want France to succeed with the challenges it faces. It is something much greater than us, France. This evening we must think exclusively of France. I bear the full responsibility for this defeat. My place can no longer be the same. My involvement in the life of my country will be different from now on," Sarkozy said, indicating that he would withdraw from frontline politics.
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US President Barack Obama later called up Hollande to congratulate him on his electoral victory and indicated him that he looks forward to working with him on a range of issues, the White House said.
"President Obama indicated that he looks forward to working closely with Hollande and his government on a range of shared economic and security challenges," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
"Obama noted that he will welcome President-elect Hollande to Camp David for the G-8 Summit and to Chicago for the NATO Summit later this month, and proposed that they meet beforehand at the White House," Carney said.
Obama and president-elect Hollande each reaffirmed the important and enduring alliance between the people of the US and France, Carney said in his statement.
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The engagement of Danielle Crane, to Brent Zimmerman is being announced by her parents, Daniel and Tracie Crane of East Alton.
A 1998 graduate of East Alton-Wood River High School, the bride-to-be is employed at RehabCare Group, where she has been since 2002.
The bridegroom-to-be is the son of Dennis and Earlene Zimmerman of Dow. A 2003 graduate of Jersey Community High School in Jerseyville, he is attending Lewis and Clark Community College majoring in criminal justice and plans to graduate in May 2008. He is employed with UPS.
Wedding vows will be exchanged between the couple in a 4:30 p.m. ceremony on Sept. 22, 2007, at Grace Methodist Church. Following the ceremony, they will receive guests at a reception at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Alton.


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I set up this page in the hope that some of my class mates in school and my course mates in campus found me here and contact me via email. However all visitors are welcome to read my stories and write to me via email so that we can get to know each other.
My nick name: DotSolo
When I was born on 18 october, my father registered my name as Abu Hassan.However somebody in the family dislike the name and call me Bahadot. As far as I remember, my brother and sisters used to call me DOT. I only knew my name is Abu Hassan on the first day I went to school.
I went through a miserable live. I used to work alone and considered to be a lonely person. That was how the SOLO get attached to my nick name.
My Education : Science
I obtain my degree in Science with education from Universiti Sains Malaysia, majoring in Physics and Mathematics. I continue my post graduate studies in Universiti Utara Malaysia and finished my Master in Information Technology on November 2002.
My profesion: Teaching
I am a teacher. I have been teaching for quite sometime. My core teaching subjects are Physics and Mathematics. My late mother always wanted me to be a teacher. I wish I had been an electronic engineer. Moreover, now I enjoy teaching very much though I don't realy satisfied with physical infrastructures provided to teachers and I dislike most of the clarical routiines that teachers have to do.
My Hobby: Electronic
Electronic is my hobby since I was in primary school. I did build some projects when I was in secondary school. Since my father's death, I did repaired electronic equipment for some money to support my family. My main intrest was in radio comunication. I did build small short range transmitters during my school days. And now I have class B amature radio licence with the callsign 9W2DOT. And currently I applied to be a life time membership of the Malay Amature Radio Society of the north Paninsular Malaysia
My Email :email@example.com
You are welcome to send me emails. But please avoid yourself from using bad words. Your constructive criticism are wellcome and vary much appreciated.
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