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Ubuntu 9.10 Installer Screenshots
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala now includes an installer slideshow. I've always liked the idea of rotating slides of information about the OS while it's installing to give the users something to do. No matter what you put on the slides this is going to be more entertaining for users than staring at the progress bar. While installing Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 5 you may have noticed a similar feature has been added to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. After entering information into the installer and clicking the Install button, users will see a slideshow of highlights, tips, and featured applications one after another. The one thing that sets that Ubuntu installer slideshow apart from others I've seen is it only plays through once. I found this to be a nice touch and I also anticipate many more slides by the final release.
Here's a look at some of the slides I captured while installing Ubuntu 9.10.
What do you think? Is The Ubuntu installer slideshow useful for new users so they know what to expect or just a waste of time and space?
September 15, 2009 at 6:52 pm
And finally ubuntu now adds on to its user friendliness with a pretty awesome installer, that reminds me much of the easy 'Windoze' install i should say. So, now Ubuntu has a graphical installer like Open-SUSE…
Kudos to Ubuntu team & Canonial….
Great work…
And thanks for the screenshots buddy….
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September 16, 2009 at 2:50 am
The mention of "Add/Remove" is by far the most useful slide,
since program installation is the most puzzling aspect for new Linux users.
September 16, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Maybe it is just me, but the installer in Ubuntu is not their greatest concern. It looks a little Windows-like with the slideshow which I think most people will ignore. Surely I am not the only person who surfs while Ubuntu is installing.
September 16, 2009 at 7:52 pm
The slide show does what it's meant to do. It looks like every other slide show I've seen. But then again what were people expecting? It's simple to the point and does what it says on the tin. Good job.
September 17, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I just want to see the Ubuntu promise in there somewhere.
September 19, 2009 at 1:35 am
That is a really good idea Flimm. The Ubuntu promise should be on a slide!
September 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Hmm this is great post.
September 29, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I posted earlier but seems my post was probably removed 🙂 Anyway, here goes again:
Kubuntu 9.10 installer is far more good looking than the above. If this eventually gets Kubuntu to be the main "Ubuntu" than the GNOME one, I for one, would be extremely happy.
GNOME+Ubuntu is too mac'ish and hence not too appealing to Windows users that want to move to Linux.
October 7, 2009 at 3:17 am
It's a very nice screenshots. Hope this will helps to most beginner who are going to start directly with Ubuntu 9.10 🙂
+1 to your post. Thanks for sharing it.
October 20, 2009 at 9:20 pm
There should be an option to enable this feature.
After all, if it's the 3th time you install an app, you don't want to be bothered with this info.
But for first time installations & new people, this is a nice idea.
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The purpose ofFood, Nutrition, and the Young Childis to provide an easy-to-read book about food and nutrition as it applies to the care of the child from birth through 8 years of age. It provides ways to integrate food and nutrition into the early childhood setting. FEATURES AND NEW TO THE FIFTH EDITION OFFOOD, NUTRITION, AND THE YOUNG CHILD The book begins with basic nutrition principles in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 applies the principles of food and nutrition, and the food and nutrient standards and guidelines, to everyday life for the teacher. The book specifically addresses the child who is cared for in home day care, preschool, or full-day-care centers with emphasis on protecting the child's health by providing the tools to assure the teacher and parents that the child is growing and developing normally. The text addresses the role of the child-care facility in helping mothers achieve their goal of exclusive and/or long-term breastfeeding as well as contributing to establishing breastfeeding as a cultural norm. The text incorporates national standards and policies from renowned organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Dietetic Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care. Since the last edition there has been increasing evidence that our nation's children stand to be the heaviest generation. This text addresses promotion of healthful eating behaviors and physical activity patterns and identifies policies that contribute to wellness and prevent the secular trend toward obesity. We have incorporated the newest physical activity guidelines for infants and toddlers as well as young children. Benefits for professors and students include an easy-to-read text that covers the newest information for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and young children on: what foods to provide; when to provide the foods; how to encourage a nutritious food intake; how to arrange the eating situation to facilitate learning activities; what food and nutrition problems are seen in each age group; and strategies for involving parents. Chapter 1 includes updated basic information on energy and nutrients. It introduces folic acid and neural tube defects and offers a cautionary note on use of herbal remedies. Helpful tools in this chapter include body mass index (BMI) calculations, dietary analysis programs, and physical activities to help teachers understand energy balance. Chapter 2 includes Web sites from which to access tools to assess food and nutrient intakes. It introduces the Activity Pyramid for children and Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) for assessing nutrient intake. In addition, it provides information about the benefits and cautions of physical activity, and dietary implications of childhood disorders. Chapter 3 introduces the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new growth charts. It also updates breastfeeding information, including: Strategies for maintaining breast milk supply The role of the care provider in promoting breastfeeding Tool for assessing a mother's intention to breastfeed exclusively Care and handling of breast milk Identification of policies that promote and protect breastfeeding Chapter 3 also provides the top ten bottle feeding practices to avoid and advice on how to read a baby like a book. It is in this chapter that an infant feeding policy is discussed. Expanded sections are included on the promotion of healthful feeding behaviors, on early childhood caries and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Guidelines Child-Care Settings, and on reflux and reflux disease. This chapter also incorporates the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care's nutrition standards. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 provide updated information about eating patterns recommended for cEndres, Jeannette is the author of 'Food, Nutrition, and the Young Child ', published 2003 under ISBN 9780130984852 and ISBN 013098485X.[read more]
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My in-laws have been visiting us this week, here from Oklahoma. The visit is going well. They are enjoying spending time with Ava and meeting Julian for the first time in person. And Ava is eating up all of the special time with "me-maw."
Jody took most of the week off from work and he and my father-in-law have been installing wood floor laminate in our dining room. The floor is in now and it looks really nice. The only thing left to do at this point is to put up the new baseboards and, once we move the hutch back in, the room will be pretty much be done. We do need to get some felt pads for under the chair and table legs and I'm thinking about getting an area rug for under the table and to add a bit of color. We'll see.
I'll have to post some before and after pictures once it's all complete. I don't know who's idea it was to have carpet in the dining room in the first place, but kids, food and carpet don't mix.
Despite all the sawing, hammering, etc. that's gone along with this project, I'm happy to report there were no injuries. Well, no injuries associated with the project. Yesterday Jody was balancing on one foot while he took off his pants, getting ready for a shower. He lost his balance and went to put his other foot down and jammed his middle toe right into the laundry basket. It has since turned purple and we're pretty sure it's broken. Ouch. At least he still has all of his appendages.


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You can now buy really good headphones for well under 100 Euros. The two new beyerdynamic hi-fi models prove this: the DTX 710 (55 Euros) and the DTX 910 (85 Euros). The DTX range has long been a favourite because of its excellent price-performance ratio. Also, the sound of DTX 800 was recently rated as "very good" in the "test 5/09" by Stiftung Warentest (German consumer organisation). Now the Heilbronn audio specialist wants to top this: the new models combine the strengths of the predecessors with maximum wearing comfort and versatility.
Extra soft ear cushions covered with skin-friendly material make even long hours of listening a delight. The large acoustic chambers with strong neodymium magnets and Mylar diaphragm guarantee powerful bass and clear trebles. The high-tech plastic Mylar is resistant to temperature and moisture, which make both headphones suitable for use on the street. The mp3 generation wears full size hi-fi headphones not only because of the high quality sound, but also as an urban fashion statement.
The DTX 710 offers beginners a start in the world of hi-fi. With deep bass and slightly elevated presence, it sounds fresh and crisp even on more feeble mobile players. Its open design does not hermetically shield the music fan from his environment, and unlike small headphones, which have to have a firm grip on the ear, the sound quality doesn't change because of a false move when wearing them. The pleasurable sound of the DTX 710 remains just as good whether you are at home listening to the stereo system or out and about. The black matt cover can swivel 90 degrees meaning that the headphones can be flattened to fit into any notebook bag and messenger bag.
The DTX 910 puts particular emphasis on sound purity and high detail resolution. Its linear and natural tuning appeals to classical music enthusiasts and all music fans, who expect sophisticated sound reproduction from their stereo system at home, which does not mean that it is not fun to use when out and about. On the contrary: after taking off the standard 6.35 mm connector, the DTX 910 and the DTX 710 can both be plugged into the headphone jack on mobile devices. High efficiency and a sound level of 98 decibels guarantee powerful sound. With its 90 degree swivelling ear cup in a black metallic look, it is ready to use and can be stored away just as quickly taking up little space after use. As with the entire DTX range, the three meter long cable is only connected to one ear cup which increases wearing comfort and reduces the risk of entanglement.
Whichever of the two models the hi-fi enthusiast goes for, there is a lot of headphone value for money. Investing in good sound is also a personal economic stimulus plan.
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Posted on 01. Sep, 2010 by perspective in Alumni, Annual Report, Biomedical Engineering, Economic Impact, Features, Healthcare and Medicine, Issues, Research, Topics
Technology idea will treat lung ailments
Teaching his first course in spring 2008 on biomedical engineering entrepreneurship, Matt Ogle quickly learned the downside of scheduling a class for three hours on a Friday afternoon.
Competing against an early weekend, Ogle's class began with six students and eventually settled into the semester with a die-hard roster of four. But what the course lacked in numbers it more than made up for in chemistry: A class this small—and this motivated—proved capable of doing something truly extraordinary.
All four of those UW-Madison students—plus their instructor—are now business partners. The team formed RespiCure, a company based on a potentially transformational technology in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which affects more than 12 million people annually. With the concept and business plan developed in class, the team incorporated RespiCure in late 2009, secured venture capital funding and is seeking patent protection. The company moved in August 2010 to University Research Park on the west side of Madison. "What's funny is during class, none of us thought this was going to be a real product or a real company," says Marina Durward, currently a PhD candidate in the UW-Madison Department of Cellular and Molecular Pathology. "At the very end of the class, we had to present our idea to venture capitalists and investment people. That's when we started getting this feedback: 'This is actually a really good idea,' and, 'Yes, we might be interested in investing money to support it.'"
RespiCure is addressing a huge healthcare challenge. COPD is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, annually killing 120,000 people, causing 1.5 million emergency room visits, and costing $37 billion in healthcare expenses. The condition, which affects patients with emphysema, bronchitis and other lung ailments, has no cure and aggressively worsens in patients, with only limited "band aid" treatments to alleviate symptoms. The disease hallmark is a mucus barrier that builds up in the lungs to the point where patients effectively drown: Treatments can't get in the lungs, and air can't get out. "We were looking for anything that would help make this situation better and improve the quality of life for people who have COPD," says Adam Budde, a RespiCure co-founder who earned a master's degree in biomedical engineering and now works at GE Healthcare.
Joining Ogle, Durward and Budde as co-founders are Rachel Mosher, a bachelor's degree recipient in biomedical engineering; and Ben Sprague, a master's degree recipient in biomedical engineering currently in medical school at the University of Pittsburgh.
The RespiCure innovation is a new approach to COPD therapy that uses a core tool of the pulmonology profession: the bronchoscope. This device helps doctors diagnose lung problems by visualizing blockages and disease. RespiCure is developing specialized attachments to the bronchoscope that allow for more targeted drug delivery and potential healing of damaged cells and tissue. "Our goal is to get more of the drugs to target areas and less of it wasted on other parts of the lung," says Budde, noting that less than 10 percent of the drugs in an inhaler ever reach their therapeutic targets. "If we can get down into the lungs with a bronchoscope, we can get to the parts of the lung that need treatment. We can attack through the barriers."
Since the 2008 course, the therapeutic potential of RespiCure has moved into one of UW-Madison's major research strengths, that of stem cell therapy. Brenda Ogle, a biomedical engineering assistant professor and wife of Matt, joined the RespiCure team last year to investigate potential stem cell transplant therapies for COPD, also using the bronchoscope as the treatment conduit. "It fits very well into my current research, but it wasn't a direction we were going at all," she says. "We focus on cardiovascular regeneration primarily. But the heart and lung are closely connected and there's comparatively little being done in the lung as far as stem cell research. This is surprising, given the magnitude of the problem."
Matt Ogle says that RespiCure currently has clinical partnerships with Meriter Hospital in Madison and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The next big step for the company will be to demonstrate through animal research data that the treatment approach does significantly improve drug delivery. Since the bronchoscope has a Class II distinction by the Food and Drug Administration, clinical trials will not be required to get the hybrid devices into healthcare use. Since the bronchoscope is an essential tool for lung care, the national community of about 8,000 pulmonologists will already have a comfort level with the technology and be more likely to adopt new approaches, Ogle says.
Perhaps a reflection of their status as Friday afternoon die-hards, the students' business choice gravitated toward big challenges with big impact. Matt Ogle says the group chose to focus on COPD from a list of seven options because of the size of the problem and the relative lack of hope for current sufferers.
An entrepreneur who has started multiple companies and has more than 30 patents, Matt Ogle continues to teach entrepreneurship courses for UW-Madison engineers. But he admits it may be hard to replicate the RespiCure experience and catch more entrepreneurial lightning in a bottle.
But never say never.
"As an outsider to the higher education environment, I am amazed at how vibrant the setting is and how talented the students are," he says. "They are able to harness their ideas and they're ready to go. They are still very open-minded—none of their ideas have been beaten down yet."


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Advances in computing and communications mean that we can cost-effectively store every book, sound recording, movie, software package, and public web page ever created, and provide access to these collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world.
By mostly using existing institutions and funding sources, we can build this as well as compensate authors within the current worldwide library budget.
As these digital libraries take shape there are new opportunities for computer scientists. Can we make a distributed web of books that supports vending and lending? How can our machines learn by reading these materials? Can we reconfigure the information to make interactive question answering machines? Can we learn from the past human translations of documents to seed an automatic version? Similarly, can we learn how to do optical character recognition by having billions of correct examples? What compensation systems will serve creators and networked users? How do we preserve petabytes of changing data?
This talk will give an overview of the collections and challenges now facing those of us building digital libraries, and end with a list of projects that might now be possible because of these collections.
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Brewster Kahle studied artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon after graduating, he helped found Thinking Machines, a supercomputer maker. In 1989, Mr. Kahle created the Internet's first publishing system, Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) and established WAIS, Inc., which revolutionized the electronic publishing market. In 1996, Mr. Kahle founded the Internet Archive, one of the largest digital libraries in the world. With 100 partnering libraries, the Internet Archive is working to create an online catalog of every book ever created. Also, in 1996 Mr. Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, a service that collects data on web browsing behavior for future analysis. Together with his wife, Mary Austin, Mr. Kahle started The Kahle/Austin Foundation, which supports the Internet Archive along with other non-profit organizations with similar goals. Additionally, Mr. Kahle is the founder of Open Content Alliance, a group of organizations contrib uting to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts.
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Ambulance calls in Marion County were 19 percent lower in October compared to 2011, Marion County Emergency Medical Service Director Steve Smith said Monday. Ambulances were called out 75 times, down from 93 in October 2011. That brings the year-to-date total to 881 calls, compared to 1,013 at the same point last year, a decrease of 13 percent.
In October, the Marion ambulance responded to 23 calls; Hillsboro, 22; Peabody, 19; Tampa, 6; Florence, 4; and the backup unit, 1. First responders in Lincolnville went on 3 calls; Goessel, 2; Burns, 1; Florence, 1; and Durham, 0.
There were 24 calls for medical emergencies, 13 transfers, 12 no-transports, 11 falls, 6 cardiac emergencies, 5 standbys, 4 motor-vehicle accidents, and no canceled calls or other calls.
Smith proposed paying Larry Larsen $240 for teaching a class for emergency medical technicians learning new standards, which took three eight-hour classes. Smith will apply for a grant to pay Karen Larsen for teaching an advanced EMT course, which will take 116 hours.
Smith will seek volunteers for a Marion County Medical Society to smooth patient care issues between ambulances and local hospitals. The group will also be asked to consider ways to alleviate a shortage of ambulance volunteers.
The department will purchase a power cot for the Tampa ambulance for $12,476. The Marion, Hillsboro, and Peabody ambulances each have a power cot already.
The department will also purchase a pair of refurbished defibrillators for the Marion and Hillsboro ambulances for $9,570. Peabody ambulance already has a defibrillator.


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A group of six high school students band together and develop a plan to heist the SAT exam in order to prevent the test from unfairly defining who they''ll become. Each in the group has their own set of circumstances that leads them to one conclusion--the only way to truly decide their fate is to cheat the system. The unofficial leader of the group is Kyle, an aspiring architect who dreams of attending an Ivy League school, but repeatedly scores below what is required for acceptance. He develops the plan with his best friend Matty, whose low SAT scores result in a rejection from Maryland University, where his girlfriend attends. Anna, who desires to meet her parents'' standard of excellence, but is badly in need of some excitement, joins in and brings Desmond into the fold. Desmond is the star basketball player, who at the urging of his mother, decides to forgo the NBA for college, and needs to pass the SAT to get in. Providing the access inside the local education testing headquarters is Francesca, an anti-establishment girl, who joins in the scheme for kicks. Completing the group is Roy, a loner who wants in on the action after accidentally overhearing the plan. Although the kids seemingly share nothing in common, they band together and while getting to know each other, discover themselves in the process.
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2001 Kodak All-American
2001 Naismith Finalist
2001 Second-Team All-American (AP, Women's Basketball Journal)
2001 First-Team All-SEC (coaches (unanimous), AP)
2001 Shooting Guard of the Year Finalist (ESPN the Magazine)
2001 Pre-Season All-American (Street & Smith Magazine)
Louisiana Player of the Week (Jan. 22, 2001)
National Star of the Week (Dec. 18, 2000 - womenscollegehoops.com)
SEC Player of the Week (Dec. 18, 2000)
2000 USA Women's Select Team (Jones Cup Gold Medal Winners)
"Marie Ferdinand is about as complete a player as any coach could ask for. She is what most coaches envision a 'two' guard to be. She is cat-quick with great leaping ability, her floor speed is extraordinary, and her decision-making capacity has improved every year. Her athleticism allows her to do some things that are hard to believe until one actually sees her perform. Without a doubt, Marie is one of the most gifted players I have ever coached, and she is one of the premier perimeter players in the country."
- LSU head coach Sue Gunter
Post LSU Career:
Was the first-round pick of the Utah Starzz (now the San Antonio Silver Stars) in the 2001 WNBA draft as the eighth overall selection ... Selected as a WNBA All-Star in 2002, 2003 and 2005 ... Named to the WNBA Select Team that earned the Silver Medal in the 2003 FIBA World Cup ...In five seasons with the Silver Stars she ranks among the Top 10 in numerous Silver Stars all-time-Top 10-categories ... Is first on the Silver Stars all-time- Top 10 list in steals (227), ranks third in points (1,912), field goals made (657) and attempted (1,565); second in free throws made (536); fourth in assists (356) and in games played (146) and ranks sixth in rebounds (490) ... In her WNBA career she has played in 146 games earning 136 starts, averaging 13.1 points, 3.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.56 steals in 31.2 minutes per game.
Senior Season (2000-01):
Established herself as one of the top players in the nation ... Became just the fourth player in LSU history to earn Kodak All-America honors ... Named first-team All-SEC by the coaches and the AP, second team All-America by Women's Basketball Journal, a Naismith Finalist and a finalist for the Shooting Guard of the Year award presented by ESPN the Magazine ... Leads LSU in scoring, assists, steals and minutes played while being second in rebounds ... Ranked third in scoring (20.7), fourth in field goal percentage (51.1), eighth in assists (3.93), first in steals (3.14) and first in minutes (37.5) in the SEC in conference games ... One of only three players in LSU history to record at least 1,500 points, 500 rebounds, 300 assists and 200 steals in a career ... Started 93 consecutive games to end her career, every one since her sophomore season, and scored in double figures in 35 straight, the third longest streak in LSU history ... She leaves as the Lady Tigers all-time leading scorer in NCAA Tournament history ... Scored 20 points or more on 18 occasions this season, and broke the 30-point plateau three times, including a career-high 34 at SMU and at Purdue ... Against the national runner-up Boilermakers in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, she set an LSU NCAA Tournament record with 34 points on 10-of-17 shooting and a 14-18 performance from the free throw line ... Scored 10 points in the final 2:43 against Arkansas to rally LSU to a victory over the LadyBacks ... Recorded 20 of her 25 points in the second half to help the Lady Tigers erase a 15-point second-half deficit against No. 6 Purdue in Indianapolis ... Notched double-double's against Duke (22 points, 11 rebounds) and Georgia (19 points, 11 rebounds) ... Shot 50 percent or better from the field in eight straight games at one point during the season ... Was named SEC Player of the Week and National Star of the Week by womenscollegehoops.com for her performance against the Boilermakers in December ... Scored 31 points in the regular-season finale against South Carolina ... Had a season-high seven steals against Auburn to go along with 22 points, nine rebounds and six assists ... Played all 40 minutes on seven occasions this season, including three consecutive games in January.
Junior Season (1999-2000):
Started all 32 games for the Lady Tigers, scoring a team-high 17.5 points per contest . . .also tops on the squad in assists (5.3), steals (2.9 - also the SEC leader) and minutes played per game (35.6) . . . her 93 steals was the highest single-season total in school history, while her 170 assists rank second at LSU . . . finished No. 1 in the SEC in steals (2.91), No. 3 in scoring (17.5), No. 3 in assists (5.31), No. 6 in field goal percentage (.501) and No. 10 in assist/turnover ratio (1.57) . . . scored in double figures in all but three games and she scored 20 or more points 14 times . . . had 22 points and eight assists in NCAA Sweet 16 win over Duke, and followed that with 17 points, four rebounds and four steals in Elite Eight loss to Connecticut . . . in four NCAA Tournament games, averaged 18.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 4.3 steals in 39 minutes per contest . . . scored career-high 25 points vs. Tulane (Dec. 31) and Ole Miss (Jan. 23) . . . posted a double-double with 16 points and 12 assists in win over St. Bonaventure (Nov. 26) . . . the 12 assists is the third-best single-game total in school history . . . had solid effort vs. Arkansas on Feb. 12 with 24 points and a season-best nine rebounds . . . collected 23 points, including 17 in the second half, in win over Vanderbilt (Feb. 17).
Sophomore Season (1998-99):
Started all 30 games and finished the year ranked fourth on the squad with 12.3 points a contest ... Averaged 5.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists a contest ... LSU led with 16 points in NCAA Sweet 16 game vs. Louisiana Tech ... Scored 18 points in first round NCAA win over Evansvillle .... Showed signs of brilliance on defensive end as she held Notre Dame's top outside threat Sheila McMillen to only 9 points, six below average in NCAA second round win and limited Alabama all-American Dominique Canty to only 13 points on 4-of-19 shooting in LSU's 75-50 win on Feb. 3 ... Played all 45 minutes and scored 10 points and dished out 6 assists in overtime win over Auburn ... Tied a career-high with six assists in LSU's SEC Tournament loss to Kentucky ... Scored career-best of 19 points against South Carolina on Dec. 1 ... Had 16 points in LSU's upset of No. 1 ranked Tennessee on Feb. 21 ... Scored 17 points on five different occasions ... Had first and only double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds in road win over Northeast Louisiana ... Had solid effort in road win over Vanderbilt with 17 points, eight rebounds and career-best five steals ... SEC Academic Honor Roll and an honorable mention all-Louisiana selection.
Freshman Season (1997-98):
Played in 27 games with no starts ... Finished the year averaging 2.4 points and 2.3 rebounds a contest ... Had best game of year in season-finale, with then career-highs of nine points, eight rebounds, and 25 minutes against Baylor in the Women's NIT ... Missed three games in December with a badly sprained ankle ... Came on strong at end of season, playing double-digit minutes in all three of LSU's Women's NIT games ... Scored four points and had seven rebounds in first round Women's NIT win over Boise State ... Scored eight points in losses to Georgia and Tennessee ... Dished out a career-high five assist in only 11 minutes of action in road loss to Arkansas.
High School:
Player of the Year in Florida as a senior and was one of the most sought after guards in the South in 1997 ... Scored over 2,000 points in high school career ... Averaged 24.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 2.0 steals as a senior ... As a senior , named first team All-State, first team All-Dade County ... Player of the Year in Dade County as a sophomore, junior and senior ... As a junior, averaged 20 points, 9.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 4.0 steals a contest and was a first team All-State selection ... Named most valuable player of district for three years and was also a first team All-State pick as a sophomore ... Had career-highs of 41 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists ... Team won 6A (largest class) state title her sophomore season.
Born October 13, 1978 in Miami, Fla. ... Mother is Jeantilia Ferdinand ... Has a brother, Samas Nelson, and a sister, Mircille ... Majoring in kinesiology at LSU.


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A letter in the March 11, 2008, Tomahawk Leader:
To The Editor:
The Tomahawk Area Dog Park will benefit this community by offering an off-leash location where dogs, residents and tourists can exercise and socialize in a safe environment with their canine companions. It's been said "a tired dog is a good dog," and potentially they will be less likely to end up in a shelter. Exercised and socialized people will also be happier and healthier, too.
In April, 2008, we are scheduled to start putting up all the fencing which has been donated. We have about a 1,000 linear feet, and will need about 1,500 feet more to complete the surround. We have $3,500 in the bank from fundraising which started last summer. We also have construction crew of a few volunteers for labor force.
We will need more funds to purchase the balance of the chain link fence, plus other installation parts. A financial donation of $10, $50 $100, $250, $500 or $1,000, or any other amount you can give would help us in completing the fence project which is our first goal this summer. Can you help us? Your donations are tax deductible.
As funds permit, our second priority will be to add pet and human water fountains. The third priority will be the addition of trees to make it a beautiful park setting.
If you would be willing to lend a physical hand during construction, please contact me for details. I am coordinating a list of work to be done and helpers.
Lastly, one of our fund raisers will be a Pet Garage sale on Saturday May 24. We are seeking donations of anything pet-related (dogs, cats, horses, snails and serpents) to make our garage sale a profitable success. For instance: beds, crates, food bowls, toys, baby gates, leashes, collars, books, food, treats. You could help by remembering the Dog Park when you do your spring cleaning. Small items can be dropped off at the chamber, or we can make arrangements for of larger items.
Jo- Ski Theiler
715/453-0010 before 5 p.m. or email@example.com anytime.
Tomahawk Area Dog Park
P.O. Box 13
Tomahawk, WI 54487
Dog Park funds, help
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Community Sports
Causin' Chaos wins Kilgore tournament
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- Category: Community Sports
- Published on 20 October 2012
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The Causin' Chaos 14 and under fastpitch, softball team won the USFA "No Excuses" tournament in Kilgore on Oct. 13-14.
There were 10 teams in the field. Causin' Chaos played nine games in two days. For more information, see the Oct. 18 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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Kim Kardashian storms out of Vienna Ball - report
Reality TV star KIM KARDASHIAN reportedly stormed out of the lavish Vienna Opera Ball in Austria on Thursday night (27Feb14).
The socialite was a guest of Austrian businessman Richard Lugner, 81, who has a history of doling out thousands of pounds to have famous women accompany him to the annual event. Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch and Lindsay Lohan have all served as Lugner's dates in the past.
This year (14), he reportedly paid £299,580 for Kardashian to join him, but apparently the pair did not get on, according to TMZ.com.
The gossip site reports Kardashian felt uncomfortable and left early. Other reports suggest the reality TV star skipped dinner and refused to dance with Lugner, leaving her mother Kris Jenner to take her place.


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What Does Good Teaching Look Like?
Imagine you just walked into the classroom of a truly excellent teacher, as she's teaching a lesson. One of those "irreplaceables," perhaps. What do you see and hear? What's on the walls--and the whiteboard? How has she arranged the classroom? What are his students doing? Who's talking--and what are they talking about? What's the prevailing "atmosphere" in the room?
What does good teaching look like?
I used to use this question as a starter exercise in presenting workshops for candidates in the National Board Certification process. There was never a shortage of waving hands or answers: Lots of student work on the walls. No straight rows! Teacher is circulating. Real dialogue. Students asking questions. Room is colorful and inviting. A box for students' portfolios. Students are engaged. Teacher knows his stuff. Kids are on task. Teacher is using technologies seamlessly. No sage on the stage!
The exercise could easily go on for half an hour, as teachers emptied their brains around their personal hallmarks of great teaching.
What was almost never mentioned: What the teacher was thinking--and how he made decisions as the lesson unfolded. Whether the teacher had clear learning goals, and if her goals were important and worth pursuing.
My last blog was on the central importance of identifying excellent practice as a means to improving education, before cooking up disruptive policy shifts. I shared several vignettes of teaching in a KIPP school, described by Gary Rubinstein, and said this: It's axiomatic that good teaching matters (and yeah, I know that other things matter more, but stay with me). So why don't we focus, laser-like, on what good teaching explicitly looks like and what it yields (two different things) and how to get it--everywhere?
A reader said this, in an e-mail: The observer was extremely judgmental - something that I find inappropriate and uninformed. I thought you were talking about needing to know what good teaching "looks" like, but then you shift to an entirely different position: that teachers are the ones who are best able to dissect and analyze their own teaching.
The reader raises a good point. There is no hard and fast template for what good teaching "looks like," and much of what's involved in good teaching isn't visible. Some things that appear to be good teaching, on the surface, are not particularly effective in generating conditions conducive to learning. And it's easy to misjudge "bad" teaching, based on things that turn out to not matter much in what students ultimately learn.
Rubinstein describes some things (a class that turns restless as a teacher fumbles with a video) that might not be indicative of weak teaching, just a lapse in preparation. And other things (an educator offering students candy to complete their homework) that really are evidence of some misunderstandings in that teacher's pedagogical toolkit.
I once taught with a teacher whose room was awash in student work--hanging from the ceiling, lining the hallways--and bright, cheerful decorations, including curtains and soft furniture. She had pre-laminated bulletin boards for every two-week period in the school year, and highly detailed lesson plans (also laminated) listing standards, objectives and materials needed. But her teaching was sterile and rote, as she went through her numbered steps.
And this is why I have some real concern over Bill Gates' ideas about evaluating teaching by putting billions of dollars' worth of cameras in every classroom: you just don't know what you're seeing, until you have a conversation with the teacher and examine the students' work products or listen to their discussions.
Here's an example, from a video shot in my own work with National Board candidates:
A fiftyish male teacher with a buzz cut is teaching a class of middle school students a lesson on an important battle in the Civil War, with diagrams, shapes and arrows, using an overhead projector and accompanying student worksheets. The camera pans to the front row; a group of boys sit transfixed by the strategy of the Confederate army in taking Little Round Top.
A pony-tailed girl who has been "drifting" asks a clearly off-topic question about fashion in the Civil War era--how many hoops in a hoop skirt? The teacher, obviously irritated, snaps: "Is that what I was talking about? Are you getting this? If you're not paying attention, I'm not going to bore the rest of the class by going back."
Ouch. But--before we make a snap judgment about the teacher's effectiveness--we all bark at kids, occasionally, don't we? In thirty years of teaching, there are plenty of things that I wish I hadn't said. Teachers are human.
Beyond that, however--what really mattered in that video clip? This is what a conversation with the teacher revealed:
#1) He had won several awards for teaching history--the proverbial "making history come alive" plaudits-- from statewide organizations. A veteran himself, he was a dedicated Civil War buff, who often took students on field trips to re-enactments. Some of those boys were in this class, which is why he chose this demonstration lesson to tape.
#2) The teacher knew the girl well. He suspected once the camera started rolling, she would ask a random, attention-seeking question, because this was her usual modus operandi. He had learned from experience to nip those lesson-derailing questions in the bud.
#3) The topic of the lesson was firmly tied to a state social studies curriculum standard around important military campaigns in the Civil War.
#4) But--after watching himself teach, the teacher had a kind of epiphany: While he was engaging the boys in the front row, half his class wasn't paying attention at all. His unit on military strategy in the 19th century was a dud to a big chunk of the 8th graders he taught. He had been drawing game-play sketches on these Civil War battles in class for years. It was his passion--but didn't hook many of his students into a greater understanding of the causes and outcomes of the war.
So he made some changes. And that self-analysis is--explicitly--what we hope all teachers will do, and what good teaching "looks like."
What does good teaching look like to you? More importantly, what does it yield?


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It is well known by almost everyone that honey is a fundamental food source for the human body, whereas only a few people are aware of the extraordinary qualities of its producer, the honey bee.
As we know, the food source of bees is nectar, which is not found during winter. For this reason, they combine the nectar collected in summer time with special secretions of their body, produce a new nutrient - honey - and store it for the coming winter months.
It is noteworthy that the amount of honey stored by bees is much greater than their actual need. The first question that comes to mind is why do the bees not give up this "excess production", which seems a waste of time and energy for them? The answer to this question is hidden in the "inspiration" stated in the verse to have been given the bee.
|And He has made everything in the heavens and everything in the earth subservient to you. It is all from Him. There are certainly signs in that for people who reflect.
(Surat al-Jathiyah: 13)
How do bees know that this substance is an ideal substance for embalming? How do bees produce a substance, which man can only produce in laboratory conditions and with the use of technology if he has a certain level of knowledge of chemistry? How do they know that a dead insect causes bacteria production and that embalming will prevent this?
|And in your creation and all the creatures He has scattered about there are signs for people with certainty.
(Surat al-Jathiyah: 4)
The hive is made up of beeswax-walled honeycombs, which have hundreds of tiny cells on each of their faces. All honeycomb cells are exactly the same size. This engineering miracle is achieved by the collective work of thousands of bees. Bees use these cells for food storage and the maintenance of young bees.
Bees have been using the hexagonal structure for the construction of honeycombs for millions of years. (A bee fossil has been found dating from 100 million years ago). It is astonishing that they have chosen a hexagonal structure rather than an octagonal, or pentagonal. Mathematicians give the reason: "the hexagonal structure is the most suitable geometric form for the maximum use of unit area." If honeycomb cells were constructed in another form, then there would be areas left unused; thus, less honey would be stored, and fewer bees would be able to benefit from it.
As long as their depths are the same, a triangular or quadrangular cell would hold the same amount of honey as a hexagonal cell. However, among all these geometric forms, the hexagonal has the shortest circumference. Whilst they have the same volume, the amount of wax required for hexagonal cells is less than the amount of wax required for a triangular or quadrangular one.
The conclusion: hexagonal cells require minimal amounts of wax in terms of construction while they store maximal amounts of honey. Bees themselves surely cannot have calculated this result, obtained by man after many complex geometrical calculations. These tiny animals use the hexagonal form innately, just because they are taught and "inspired" so by their Lord.
From their bellies comes a drink of varying colours, containing healing for mankind… (Surat an-Nahl: 69)
We have made them (livestock) tame for them and some they ride and some they eat. And they have other uses in them and milk to drink. So will they not show thanks? (Surah Yasin: 72-73)
Nowadays, apiculture and bee products have opened a new branch for research in countries advanced in science. Other benefits of honey may be described as below:
It is obvious that honey, which is produced in much higher amounts than the requirements of the bees, is made for the benefit of man. And it is also obvious that bees cannot perform such an unbelievable task "on their own."


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Arithmetic of quadratic forms over $\mathbb{Z}$ (or lattices theory) has received much attention and there are many applications in broad area of mathematics (such as intersection forms on fourfolds). I now wonder whether or not a similar theory for cubic forms can be developed. I recently found a beautiful theorem about binary cubic forms:
Theorem (B. N. Delone and D. K. Faddeev,W.-T. Gan, B. H. Gross, and G. Savin) There is a canonical bijection between isomorphism classes of cubic rings and the set of $GL_{2}(\mathbb{Z})$-equivalence classes of integral binary cubic forms. Under this bijection, the discriminant of a cubic ring is equal to the discriminant of the corresponding binary cubic form.
I don't know how useful this theorem is because I don't know how difficult to classify cubic rings. My question is, are there any classification theory when the number of variable is small? I would appreciate it if anyone could give me a reference for recent development of cubic forms.


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For the Consumer
Applies to cetirizine / pseudoephedrine: oral tablet extended release
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- fever or chills
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More Common
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Less Common
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For Healthcare Professionals
Applies to cetirizine / pseudoephedrine: oral tablet extended release
Dermatologic side effects have included maculopapular and urticarial eruptions.[Ref]
Gastrointestinal side effects of cetirizine have included dry mouth (5.7%) and nausea or vomiting (2.2%). Pharyngitis, dyspepsia, and increased appetite have occasionally been reported.
Gastrointestinal adverse effects of pseudoephedrine have included anorexia and gastric irritation (5%). Dry mouth, nose, or throat have occurred in up to 15% of patients.[Ref]
Hepatic side effects have included rare liver function test abnormalities which resolved spontaneously following discontinuation of cetirizine therapy.[Ref]
Nervous system
Cetirizine appears to be more sedating than terfenadine, astemizole, and loratadine.[Ref]
Nervous system side effects of cetirizine administration have included headache (16%), fatigue (5.6%), and somnolence (5% to 20%). Somnolence tends to be dose-related and generally occurs more frequently with doses higher than 10 mg per day. Other nervous system side effects include dizziness (1.8%), insomnia (1.5%), and nervousness (1.1%). Post marketing reports have included aggression reaction and convulsions.
Nervous system side effects of pseudoephedrine have included insomnia in up to 30% of patients. Tremor, anxiety, nervousness, and headache have also been reported.[Ref]
Respiratory side effects have included wheezing, coughing, bronchitis, sinusitis, and asthma.[Ref]
Hypersensitivity reactions have included fixed drug eruptions with pseudoephedrine use.[Ref]
Cardiovascular side effects have included tachycardia. Some patients have developed hypertension and/or arrhythmias.[Ref]
General side effects have included epistaxis (1.1%) and accidental injury (1.1%).[Ref]
1. "Product Information. Zyrtec (cetirizine)." Pfizer US Pharmaceuticals, New York, NY.
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