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200 N. Wolfe Street Rubenstein Child Health Building Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 443-287-3733
Dr. Deborah Persaud is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds joint appointments in international health and molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A clinician and researcher specializing in the study and treatment of HIV-1 infection in children, she directs the pediatric infectious diseases fellowship program at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
Dr. Persaud received her B.S. in chemistry from York College in New York. A 1985 graduate of the New York University School of Medicine, she trained in pediatrics at Babies Hospital/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where she was chief resident. She was an infectious disease fellow, an Aaron Diamond postdoctoral research fellow and a faculty member at New York University. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1997, following a visiting lectureship at the Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.
Her research interests include HIV/AIDS drug development and mother-to-child HIV transmission.
Dr. Persaud is the scientific chair of the HIV CURE Scientific Committee of the International Maternal, Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) group. She was awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award for her HIV research and was recognized by Nature magazine in 2013 as one of "Ten People Who Mattered This Year." She was recognized by Time magazine as among the "100 Most Influential People of 2013" for her pediatric HIV treatment research.
- Director, Infectious Disease Fellowship Program
- Professor of Pediatrics
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- MD; Medicine, New York University School of Medicine (1985)
- Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center / Pediatrics (1989)
- New York University Medical Center / Pediatric Infectious Diseases (1992)
- New York University Medical Center (1995)
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- American Board of Pediatrics / Pediatric Infectious Diseases (1994)
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Dr. Persaud's research focuses on the mechanisms of HIV persistence in reservoirs in children. She studies the selection and transmission of drug-resistant HIV during chemoprophylaxis for prevention of mother-to-child transmission and their implications for antiretroviral therapy. She also focuses on therapeutic HIV vaccines and the development of field-friendly assays for infant diagnosis and drug-resistance testing.
Selected Publications
Luzuriaga K, Gay H, Ziemniak C, Sanborn KB, Somasundaran M, Rainwater-Lovett K, Mellors JW, Rosenbloom D, Persaud D. "Viremic relapse after HIV-1 remission in a perinatally infected child." N Engl J Med. 2015 Feb 19;372(8):786-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1413931.
Rainwater-Lovett K, Luzuriaga K, Persaud D. "Very early combination antiretroviral therapy in infants: prospects for cure." Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2015 Jan;10(1):4-11
Persaud D, Patel K, Karalius B, Rainwater-Lovett K, Ziemniak C, Ellis A, Chen YH, Richman D, Siberry GK, Van Dyke RB, Burchett S, Seage GR 3rd, Luzuriaga K; Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study. "Influence of age at virologic control on peripheral blood human immunodeficiency virus reservoir size and serostatus in perinatally infected adolescents." JAMA Pediatr. 2014 Dec;168(12):1138-46. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.1560. Erratum in: JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Jan;169(1):96
Shah SK, Persaud D, Wendler DS, Taylor HA, Gay H, Kruger M, Grady C. "Research on very early ART in neonates at risk of HIV infection." Lancet Infect Dis. 2014 Sep;14(9):797. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70893-X.
Clarke DF, Acosta EP, Rizk ML, Bryson YJ, Spector SA, Mofenson LM, Handelsman E, Teppler H, Welebob C, Persaud D, Cababasay MP, Wang J, Mirochnick M; International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) P1097 Study Team. "Raltegravir pharmacokinetics in neonates following maternal dosing." J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2014 Nov 1;67(3):310-5.
Activities & Honors
- 100 Most Influential People, Time, 2013
- Ten People Who Mattered This Year, Nature, 2013
- Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award, 2005
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
- Society for Pediatric Research
- American Society of Microbiology
Professional Activities
- Scientific Chair, International Maternal, Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Group
- Committee Member, Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group, 2001
- Scientific Chair, HIV CURE Scientific Committee, International Maternal, Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Group
- Immunology Subcommittee, Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group, 2001
- Vaccine Subcommittee, Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group, 2001
- Virology Core Committee, Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group, 2000
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"Early Treatment Is Found to Clear H.I.V. in a 2nd Baby," The New York Times, March 5, 2014
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|Tutorial Series
|Marble C++ Tutorial
|Tutorial 11 - Reverse Geocoding
|What's Next
|Tutorial 13 - Painting onto the map
|Further Reading
As we have seen in the previous tutorial, Marble employs runners to when dealing with .kml (or .gpx, .osm, etc) files. This tutorial shows how to use the MarbleRunnerManager class to open a .kml (or .gpx, ...) file and display its structure in a tree view.
#include <QtCore/QDebug>
#include <QtCore/QFileInfo>
#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QtGui/QTreeView>
#include <marble/MarbleWidget.h>
#include <marble/MarbleModel.h>
#include <marble/MarbleRunnerManager.h>
#include <marble/GeoDataTreeModel.h>
using namespace Marble;
int main(int argc, char** argv)
QApplication app(argc,argv);
QFileInfo inputFile( app.arguments().last() );
if ( app.arguments().size() < 2 || !inputFile.exists() ) {
qWarning() << "Usage: " << app.arguments().first() << "file.kml";
return 1;
MarbleModel *model = new MarbleModel;
MarbleRunnerManager* manager = new MarbleRunnerManager( model->pluginManager() );
GeoDataDocument* document = manager->openFile( inputFile.absoluteFilePath() );
if ( document ) {
GeoDataTreeModel* treeModel = new GeoDataTreeModel;
treeModel->addDocument( document );
QTreeView* treeView = new QTreeView;
treeView->setModel( treeModel );
} else {
qDebug() << "Unable to open " << inputFile.absoluteFilePath();
return app.exec();
Copy and paste the code above into a text editor. Then save it as my_marble.cpp and compile it by entering the following command on the command line:
g++ -I /usr/include/qt4/ -o my_marble my_marble.cpp -lmarblewidget -lQtGui -lQtCore
If things go fine, execute ./my_marble some-file.kml and you get a tree view of its structure similar to this screenshot (showing the structure of a route calculated with Marble):
The latest source code of this example can be found here.
|Here's a little checklist to tackle some problems that might arise when compiling the code above:
|If you provide maps in your application please check the Terms of Use of the map material. The map material that is shipped with Marble is licensed in the spirit of Free Software. This usually means at least that the authors should be credited and that the license is mentioned. E.g. for OpenStreetMap the license is CC-BY-SA. Other map data shipped with Marble is either public domain or licensed in the spirit of the BSD license.


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The "strong atheists" link is supposed to be redirecting to strong atheism (even that entry shows this) - but it's redirecting to weak atheism. Any idea why?
Sans Deity 09:17, 20 June 2006 (MST)
I felt the atheism, strong atheism, and weak atheism articles were stubs. So I merged them into one article (keeping as much of the original writing as I could). hope nobody's upset! - MadOtaku 13:02, October 24 2006 (PST)
I think that makes sense, at least until there's a need (read: sufficient content) for them to be moved to separate entries. - Sans Deity 16:51, 24 October 2006 (CDT)
Should we be adding any more information to this page, as Atheism is a pretty major subject for the wiki, in my opinion? I mean, look at Conservapedia, they have a 'wonderful' article about Atheism that is at least ten times longer than necessary, but at least it explains how we're all mass murderers and immoral... wait that's not a good example. XD - RoaringAtheist 17 Januari 2009
- While you can add what you'd like, most of the people coming here for information are looking for counter-apologetics, considering that the purpose of this wiki is that very subject. Most of the people using the wiki would probably self-identify as atheist or agnostic, so it isn't the most important article in the world. Enshoku 06:04, 20 January 2009 (CST)
I removed the sentence "This commonly used definition does not assume any positive claim of the nonexistence of a god." from the introduction, as it conflicts with the definition given for Strong Atheism. --BunniRabbi 19:57, 7 December 2010 (CST)
There is no conflict. Atheism is the top-level category, weak and strong are sub-categories. The top-level category does not require a positive claim of the nonexistence of a god. -- Sans Deity 09:38, 8 December 2010 (CST)
I'm a little perplexed by the section that reads "For the above reason, strong atheism is sometimes criticized for "requiring faith." But this is not necessarily true." First of all it seems that a better response is to ask why this is a criticism. Certainly no one who's taken an intro philosophy course is going to state that they can prove everything they base their actions on. I think that assuming "basing it on faith" is actually a criticism is attaching some sort of negative connotation to "faith" which is self defeating. "Faith" is a synonym for the word "assumption". People may be worried by the idea that they make assumptions, but as this is unavoidable why should it be treated like a valid criticism?
Perhaps we would be better served by adding a section describing how attaching the term "faith" to atheism is a kind of verbal trap which assumes the atheist has made the claim that everything they believe is based on evidence?--BunniRabbi 20:33, 7 December 2010 (CST)
BunniRabbi -
While I don't necessarily disagree with most of the changes you made, there was one part I take issue with.
- and that assumption is functionally identical to faith
I disagree. They start off the same, but the difference between an assumption and faith is that you can a posteriori confirm whether the assumption was valid or not. Faith, on the other hand, remains unconfirmed, because, once it is, it's no longer faith.
For instance, we start off assuming that our senses are basic, but we can retroactively confirm whether it was a correct assumption.
They're not the same. Similar in some respects, perhaps.
--jt 20:52, 1 June 2011 (CDT)
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"I could define "dead" as "not alive"." Ummm, no you can't. Many things are neither alive, nor dead. Jason Clark 02:22, 10 December 2015 (CST)
- Words can be defined for the sake of argument to mean pretty much anything. Even if that was not the case, I'm not exactly going out on a limb: "dead [...] not endowed with life; inanimate" [1] --Tim Sheerman-Chase 18:49, 10 December 2015 (CST)


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Dead Space Save File Unlocks Original Plasma Cutter in Dead Space 2
However, nabbing the extra weapon won't give Isaac Clarke an immediate advantage over the menacing Necromorphs. Gascoigne told Joystiq the unlock will not carry over any upgrades made to the weapon in the original Dead Space. Basically, Isaac is still going to have a really long and horrible day.
The original weapon became the go-to selection for hardcore Achievement and Trophy hunters who battled through the entire original title with the game's primary weapon, giving them a little extra nerd cred for being loyal to the cutting machine.
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The Jets' miserable season came to a miserable end in Buffalo on Sunday with a 28-9 loss that left them with a 6-10 record to show for their work this season.
With the season officially over, it's expected to be the end of offensive coordinator Tony Sparano's brief stay with the team. He wasn't really in the mood to discuss that possibility or anything else on Sunday afternoon. Cable network SNY, which carries all the Jets postgame action, caught Sparano walking to the team bus at a healthy pace with a horde of Jets beat writers following him in futile hopes of getting some comments.
Sunday's game was another disaster for the Jets offense and there isn't much Sparano could say at this point that could polish up the evidence that he wasn't the right man for the job.
Wide receiver Braylon Edwards wasn't a Jet for most of the season, but he was one for a couple of years in the past and he certainly seems to have picked up their ability to turn just about everything into more of a circus than it needs to be. Kevin Armstrong of the New York Daily News passes along word that Edwards made a gun to the head gesture on his way back to the locker room when he saw the assembled media waiting in the tunnel, a shot SNY also captured.
Mike Vorkunov of the Newark Star-Ledger reports that Edwards said after the game that he wants to return to the team next season. We're not sure how the ol' gun to the head routine fits into that, although we are talking about a man who got a job from people he had recently called idiots this season.


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Along the route, changes are being made to facilitate the articulated (artic) - or longer - buses in order to ease crowding of passengers to and from places like Rockaway Boulevard and JFK Airport.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have already begun making the changes. The addition of the artic buses is a "sprinkle" according to the MTA. They stated that a full route conversion would likely occur once the new MTA buses are delivered.
The MTA requested DOT expand selected stops on the Q10 line to facilitate the 60-foot buses, rather than the current 40-foot vehicles that are in use now.
"At these elongated stops, we are providing for the capacity for two artics to stop simultaneously, which can happen when a limited overtakes a local, or an unplanned delay occurs," said Kevin Ortiz, spokesperson for the MTA. "This has been carefully reviewed by DOT, who have traffic regulatory authority including bus stop revision."
The Q10 line is one of the busiest routes in all of Queens and transported approximately 24,350 passengers on an average weekday in 2012, according to the MTA.
The line runs from Union Turnpike down Kew Gardens Road and Lefferts Blvd. to JFK Airport. It also passes through busy streets such as Metropolitan Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Atltanic Avenue, Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Boulevard.
Despite advocating for improvements on the line, the local community board is not pleased with how the situation was handled by both the MTA and the DOT.
"We have been advocates for additional buses," said Mary Ann Carey, district manager of CB9. "The biggest problem is that we weren't notified."
Given the fact that the DOT is in charge of traffic regulatory changes, it was up to them to notify the community. However, a representative from DOT would later say that it was, in fact, the MTA that should have notified the public.
Carey said she learned of the changes by coincidence. A board member was shopping at Rosenblum's Grocery on Lefferts Boulevard and noticed a DOT worker pulling meters from the sidewalk. He said parking space were being removed to make way for longer buses.
"People rely on those parking spaces," said store manager Shawn Rosenblum. "They didn't tell anybody what they were doing."
While it is only seven parking spots, "every spot counts to us and all other businesses," said Rosenblum
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Now that farmer-watching has become more popular than bird-watching, urban people need a way to help them distinguish between the various breeds in case they want to rent one, or buy one for a personal pet. Farmers actually resemble other members of the human race in most respects. They walk upright if there is no wheeled vehicle available to ride, have cell phones hanging on their ears most of the time, and feed at short order restaurants more than in their natural environment of open fields.
Like the ivory-billed woodpecker, farmer numbers are decreasing because of urban encroachment on their natural habitat. Little is known about their behavior because they shun the public eye whenever possible. No one has heard their mating call although it is presumed that they do mate because, although the ones most often seen are well above the average breeding age, an immature farmer is occasionally spotted, flitting and fluttering around the giant tractors in which farmers like to nest.
Zoologists distinguish several sub-types of the species, among them the Big Farmer, Hobby Farmer, Part-time Farmer, Dirt Farmer, Mockingfarmer, and the Debt-Ridden Ground Grabber.
The male Ground Grabber is best identified by his red plumage reminiscent of red-headed woodpeckers. But the real high flyers are so far in the red that they look more like cardinals. The Ground Grabber is very territorial, trying his best to stake out for himself enough land so he can plant it during the spring migration going north and then harvest it going south in the fall.
A Big Farmer is anyone who farms more land than the farmer you are talking to.
Hobby Farmers make their living doing something else and farm because they think of it as fun, if you can imagine that. As soon as they learn how to raise a bushel of zucchini successfully, they feel obliged to tell Ground Grabbers how to grow a hundred thousand bushels of soybeans.
Part-time Farmers differ from Hobby Farmers in that they no longer think farming is all that much fun. They need to make some money at it now. They work very hard at their other job to pay for their farming habit. It is hard to buy or rent a purebred Part-timer anymore because even most Big Farmers have another source of income so they can buy gas for their motor homes and lake cruisers between planting and harvest when cash is in short supply.
The Dirt Farmer is embarrassed to learn that because of land inflation and subsidies, he is suddenly a millionaire several times over. He never planned for that and does not want a motor home or a lake cruiser. He goes around in bib overalls, making remarks like "ain't them sixty row corn planters purty" to make salespeople think he is stupid, and proudly waves the flag of capitalism while accepting millions of dollars of welfare capital from the government. However, the Dirt Farmer contributes greatly to the well-being of the food supply by studiously ignoring well-meaning experts who criticize the way he farms.
Mockingfarmers grow bib overalls only as summer plumage but can be distinguished from Dirt Farmers because they like to feed on street corners and at university symposiums where Dirt Farmers rarely show up. (Dirt Farmers suspect that symposiums are places you go to watch dirty dancing.) Mockingfarmers are often the adult offspring of the urban rich, playing a game called Mockfarming. However they do a lot of public relations good for agriculture because they know how to talk to city dwellers. When the New York Times sends one of its crack reporters out to Windy Plains, Kansas, to get real grassroots reactions, the reporter invariably runs into a Mockingfarmer who takes him to the nearest bar and fills his recorder with grandly quotable remarks as long as the reporter will keep buying the beer.
The Tax Farmer is a rich investor who thinks he can cheat Uncle out of paying his taxes by investing in farm land. The real payoff for a Tax Farmer is to be able to refer to his investment as "my farm" while talking to fellow surgeons or fellow NBA stars. The ultimate in worldly success is to be able to say, "my farms." The Tax Farmer is the only kind who really benefits from subsidies but gravy money only means he will eventually have to pay more taxes. Uncle understands this very well.
(An earlier version of this piece appeared in The New Farm magazine in December, 1979 under a pen name, Chester White. The editor did not want me to use my real name because I was on the staff and he feared I would alienate the entire readership.)


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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen - and head to the bicentennial barbeque in Hernia, Pennsylvania. There's great outdoor cooking, a tractor pull, a greased pig chase, and this year's highlight - the unearthing of the centennial time capsule, rumored to contain the key to a fortune. But when the onlookers gather, they find the capsule missing and Magdalena Yoder's guest, Buzzy Porter, dead.
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As anybody who reads this column knows, I'm not thrilled with the fact that Republicans nominated Mitt Romney. I really don't think he's a conservative, based on his performance as governor of Massachusetts. He built a center-left track record as governor of that state and I wonder what he will do as president.
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edm AGIE/Charmilles CUT E350, technology tables included in the program
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Hello Dave,
Some of my customers bought a new AGIE/Charmilles CUT E350 EDM wire machine.
They sent me a sample program (attached), generated by FIKUS (a CAM program which has a partnership agreement with AGIE/Charmilles).
It seems that the program includes the technology tables inside it, rather than calling them form the CNC memory (the usual way I am familiar with).
Did you ever run into such problem and if yes did you find a solution (implying the use of the existing AGIE/Charmilles post(s)) ?
The users didn't know if it's possible to call the technology tables from the program. Actually, the didn't know a lot about their new machine. Unfortunately, wire EDM isn't one of my favorite topics also.
The guys from SprutCAM are willing to develop a new post, but I believe it is not worthwhile to develop a post to generate a program FIKUS-like, because the of the costs, which could be greater than the program itself (SprutCAM Wire EDM).
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Shilpa Hattangadi, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology) and of Pathology; Assistant Professor, Pathology
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Pediatrics: Pediatric Hematology & Oncology
Pathology: Experimental Pathology Graduate Program
Center for Biomedical Data Science
Yale Cancer Center: Genomics, Genetics, and Epigenetics | Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
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Shilpa Hattangadi has an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science undergraduate degree from MIT. Her postdoctoral work at the Whitehead Institute in Harvey Lodish's lab spurred an interest in applying fundamental molecular biology to intriguing concenpts in red blood cell development. Her initial work on the dynamics of chromatin modifications during erythroid transcription transformed into a focus on erythroid nuclear development. Our laboratory now centers on the dynamics of chromatin during normal terminal erythroid differentiation, specifically chromatin condensation and enucleation, which is specific to mammalian red cell development, as well as the role of certain chromatin modifiers on erythroid nuclear development in diseases such as myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
Education & Training
|Duke University Medical Center, Medicine (1999)
|Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering/Biology (1995)
|Postdoctoral Fellow
|Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
|Boston Children's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Center
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Savannah-Chatham police have arrested a 19-year-old homeless man, charged with stealing a Volvo with a 3-year-old in the backseat last week.
Rickey Cornelius Best was arrested Tuesday at Suburban Lodge, located at 10614 Abercorn Extension and a little more than a block from the apartment complex where 58-year-old Patricia Pacheco's granddaughter was kidnapped March 20.
Police say Best was spotted Tuesday at Suburban Lodge running from a pickup truck that had been reported stolen. He was interviewed by detectives, who charged him in last week's kidnapping and auto theft.
On March 20, Pacheco left her car running and door open while she checked her mail at Edgewater Trace apartments, and police say Best jumped in the backseat while Pacheco's back was turned and took off.
The toddler was returned to her grandmother unharmed minutes later, after Third Infantry Division soldiers Spec. Joshua Layton, 34, and Spec. Bryan Scott, 24, chased the car to Turtle Creek apartments, located across the street from Edgewater Trace.
Police say Best abandoned the Volvo in the Turtle Creek parking lot. Scott scooped up the little girl, who was wandering alone, and Layton chased the suspect but lost sight of him in the Colonial Village at Marsh Cove apartment complex.
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Going through the motions of daily routines such as work, are you curious about life's deeper meaning? Are you facing problems in your life and seeking direction? Do you want to fellowship with others in a safe non-judgmental environment? Then come sit in for our Sunday service. We come from all walks of life (academics, students, hawker assistants, karang-guni, teachers, civil servants, retirees) are just like you, people who face all sorts of struggles in daily life (work stresses, people who have gone through depression, people who have gone through divorces, people who are facing financial issues, people facing health problesm) gathering together to hear God's Word, praise Him through SONG, and fellowship with one another! God's love can set us free! He gives us the true peace that comes from knowing Him and not controlled by how good or bad our circumstances are .Anyone can just walk in and feel welcome. And if you would like to seek advice and counsel, you can talk to us too. We would super love to have you join us. PLEASE COME!:) Services alternate between English and Mandarin. Live translations available.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28
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agentcom wrote:eh, maybe I read to quickly through it the first time. Upon further review, I still don't care for it. I'd be annoyed if the Game Finder was preset, and I know many users wouldn't take the time to figure out how to turn that off. I'd prefer if the site just allowed you to save searches as MapRank does. I've expressed my support for this in the recent suggestion to that effect.
111mike wrote:saved game finder search criteria
- Player's favorite search criteria for finding games can be saved for future use instead of having to reselect options every single time. Hit the Saved Game Preferences Button, options are filled in automatically, hit Submit. Done.
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
- Save time, convenient,
Boniman wrote:Having a radio button in the game finder section to remember your preferences would be an awesome idea. That way if you search for the same types of games you don't have to re-enter them every time. Just a thought.
chapcrap wrote:Boniman wrote:Having a radio button in the game finder section to remember your preferences would be an awesome idea. That way if you search for the same types of games you don't have to re-enter them every time. Just a thought.
First of all, please use the form. It's there for a reason.
Second, I'm gonna merge about 20 threads into this, so get ready.
Boniman wrote:Form? ....I did a search and didn't find this thread, I'm unaware of any 'form' sorry
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RV wrote:Any though on having an option to save game search criteria rather than having to input each time?
sully800 wrote:You could save multiple favorite game types and have a drop down list of 3 or 5 that you could select. You could have a screen that lets you pick the options and create a name for them (which could be convenient for tournament creation)...then when you search or create a game you could select any of the saved preferred settings or do it manually like we currently do.
saxitoxin wrote:mrswdk wrote:after a man orgasms his brain releases various different chemicals that make him feel sleepy
After DY orgasms he develops a new recipe for chicken taragon, rearranges his closet, and then edits a paper on the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill.
DoomYoshi wrote:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=184543&p=4077890&hilit=game+finder+saved#p4077890
I would merge, but I am still learning stuff here.
However, I can tell you that MapRank allows you to save searches. That may or may not be helpful to you.
ender516 wrote:Conquer Club Saved Searches is another add-on script which provides this.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. -- Conference Carolinas All-Conference Men's Lacrosse Teams were determined by vote from each head coach of participating institutions. Nominations are collected and then voted upon by ballot and tallied to determine First Team, Second Team, Third Team, Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, and Coach of the Year award winners.
Awards will be presented at the Conference Tournament Championships hosted by Queens University of Charlotte at this weekend's conference championship. Semifinal games will be played Friday and the championship final Sunday at Queens Sports Complex at Marion Diehl Park. This year's award winners are as follows:
All-Conference First Team:
Attack Corey Geroy -Queens University of Charlotte
Chad Olsen -Pfeiffer University
Jake Rogalia -Limestone College
Midfield Mike Poerstel -Limestone College
Dave DiLuigi -Belmont Abbey College
Justin Rose -Pfeiffer University
Kyle Carnaggio - St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Defense Hunter Roof - Queens University of Charlotte
Tristan Keas -Belmont Abbey College
Anthony LaMarca - Pfeiffer University
Goalkeeper Brandon Macknew - Queens University of Charlotte
All-Conference Second Team:
Attack Brian Masterson - Queens University of Charlotte
Riley Loewen - Limestone College
Riley Fink - St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Midfield Dan Mesler - Pfeiffer University
Teddy Prager -Limestone College
Joe Taylor - Queens University of Charlotte
Sean Bennett - Limestone College
Defense Damon DeLuca - Belmont Abbey College
Steve Sauser - Limestone College
Nick LaRocca - Limestone
Goalkeeper Tony Kikola - Belmont Abbey College
All-Conference Third Team:
Midfield Nick Boylan - Belmont Abbey College
Defense Dane Blodgett - Queens University of Charlotte
Midfield Dan Morrissey - Belmont Abbey College
Goalkeeper Kyle Davitt - St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Midfield Matt Markey - Lees-McRae College
Player of the Year:
Mike Poerstel -Limestone College
Freshman of the Year:
Dan Morrissey - Belmont Abbey College
Coach of the Year:
James Fritz - Queens University of Charlotte
Regular Season Champion:
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This numbered edition Canvas Print, designed by InkyFloy, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. Ready to hang, this image is printed onto a 450gsm white finish, 100% cotton canvas and stretched over 1.5" deep wood stretcher bars (3/4" for XS). Each print comes with wall hanging hardware.
Ink wash style art has a very powerful visual effect that suits in everyday life, but also it has the meaning of grey, dark and white forces playing on the surfaces and telling a story.
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Design Inspiration Dose – 08
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We are back again, as always, with another set of images that will inspire you to create great designs. By now you already might know what Design Inspiration Dose is all about, but for our new visitors, in this new segment at pixelonomics, we share with you images that have inspired us and enabled us to weave magic into our creations.
Everybody needs inspiration, either from within or from a source that rouses the sleeping dragon (read: imagination) within you. So what are you waiting for? Scroll down and get your dose of design inspiration!
If you too, like us, want to attain design nirvana, all you have to do is keep coming back here to get a healthy dose of design inspiration.
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count2infinity wrote:I hope the Dakotas can settle their difference and become just Dakota and then we add Puerto Rico as the 50th state so that we can just keep the same flag.
Geezer wrote:It gives the Democrats 2 more automatic senators
count2infinity wrote:out of curiosity, what are the benifits/drawbacks to being a territory vs. a state?
Rylan wrote:Ugh the flag will look funny with an odd number. Combine the Dakotas!
mac5155 wrote:I dunno why they'd wanna join this country judging from 7/8 of my facebook feed.
MRandall25 wrote:The Virginias
PghSkins wrote:Sell New Mexico back to Mexico. Half of Americans think it is still Mexico anyway.
ulf wrote:is relocation possible?
DudeMan2766 wrote:ulf wrote:is relocation possible?
Better yet wouldn't realignment be awesome?
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Publication Details
Topic : Maximization of Network Energy with Solar Energy
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Publication List
- An External Quality Metrics Suit for the Estimation of Reusability, Maintainability and Defect proneness in Software Production
- Software Metrics Evaluation Based on Entropy
- Comprehensive Software Industry Analysis Model
- Software Reusability Estimation Model Using Metrics Governing Design Architecture
- Investigating the Design Quality Metrics in Object Oriented Paradigm
- An Optimal Algorithm for the flexible Maneuverability in Smart Sensor Networks(SSNs)
- Optimized Model for Design-Reusability for Object Oriented Software Development using CK Metrics
- A New Algorithm for Flexible and Optimal Path Identification in Smarter Sensor Networks
- Congestion Control in Distributed Networking System-A Review Accepted for Publication
- A Formal Model indicating Inter-relationship of CK Metrics in view of Defect Proneness
- Application of neural networks in software risk management: A survey
- A Novel Routing Approach Using Genetic algorithms for bandwidth maximization In Networks
- Software Reliability Estimation at Design Stage based on multifunctional estimation Technique
- A frame work for codifying the association of CBO and NOC in the observation of Defect proneness
- Defect Proneness Estimation and Feedback Approach for Software Design Quality Improvement
- Business Silos Integration Using Service Oriented Architecture
- An Add-on Device to Reduce Power Consumption in existing Wireless Devices
- A Performance Analysis Method for Service-Oriented Cloud Applications (SOCAs)
- Efficient Method of Risk Assessment using Intelligent Agents
- Review on cost effective software engineering using program slicing technique
- Congestion Control in Distributed Networks – A comparative study
- Dynamic Enterprise Architecture for one or more clouds
- An Efficient Frame work for Software process improvement for small organisation
- An Efficient Frame work to Model Product line Software Engineering using Value Based Business Approach
- Maximization of Network Energy with Solar Energy
- Case study of failure Analysis technique in Safety Critical Systems
- Study of Architectural Design patterns in concurrence to Analysis of design pattern in Safety Critical System
- A New Performance Modelling and Measurement method for Service Oriented Cloud Applications
- of Cloud Computing: A Perspective on Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs)
- Design Property metrics to Maintainability estimation
- Estimation of Software Reusability: An Engineering Approach
- Software Metrics Evaluation Based on Entropy
- Comprehensive Software Industry Analysis Model
- Software Metrics Evaluation Based on Entropy
- An Architectural Approach for Decoding Functions and Distribution in FPUs in A Functional Processor System
- GPRS Based Intranet Remote Administration
- Estimation of Defect proneness Using Design complexity Measurements in Object-Oriented Software
- Relaxation Control of Packet Arrival Rate in the Neighborhood of the Destination in Concentric Sensor Networks
- On Developing a Metric System for Non-Functional Requirements in Software Through Parametric Analysis
- Software Components for Web Services
- Information Theory Based Software Design Complexity Analysis Using Entropy
- GPRS Video Streaming Surveillance System [GVSS], Journal of Research & Industry
- Performance Analysis of view Maintenance Techniques for Data Warehousing
- Comprehensive Software Industry Analysis Model
- IT in Power Sector – KPCL Implementation
- Dynamic Cognitive Process : Application of Bloom's Taxonomy for Complex Software Design in the Cognitive Domain
- Cognitive process of comprehension in Requirement Analysis in IT Applications
- Quantitative Quality Assessment through Bayesian Probability Model of Software Defect Prediction
- Quantifying the Design Quality of Object Oriented System: The metric based rules and heuristics
- Model Based Approach to Software Testing
- Quality Assessment of Object Oriented Design
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More great lettering in this Creative update, along with a designer with a cause, children's graphics and even Google now pays homage to Saul Bass!
* Metamorphosis Urban Revitalization Mural Design Transforms A Public Space
* Anthony Nolan Connects the Dots in Identity package
* The National Design Award Winners Announced
* A lesson about designing ugly PowerPoints
* Patricia got us going on and on and on
* Like Minded Studios . . . Wow
* Rebranding olive oil
... and more !
Metamorphosis Urban Revitalization Mural Design Transforms A Public Space
Charmaine Banach, assistant professor from Quinnipiac University (Hamden), helped former students to design and install a 300 foot vinyl mural earlier this week in downtown Youngstown, OH. The project started as an independent study course that Banach taught while working as a graphic design professor at Youngstown State University.
In this course, she guided students in using design processes for urban revitalization and since moving to Connecticut has continued to work with the students to get the project printed and installed.
Full story : www.courant.com
here's a better look at the projecta
Anthony Nolan Connects the Dots in Identity package
We found this entry in our notes from some months ago, and was surprised we didn't include it then.
Johnson Banks came up with the bright idea of "Connecting the Dots" in a rebranding of The Anthony Nolan Trust. (A register of potential bone marrow donors in the UK.)
Full story : Johnson Banks
See another sample - cover design
The National Design Award Winners Announced
It's no surprise that Paula Scher's graphic design work since the 1970s, for cultural, corporate and educational institutions (like a Queens public high school, shown), has won her a 2013 National Design Award for communication design from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
But it is surprising that she waited 14 years for the honor.
Full story : The New York Times
See the entire, multi-story montage
A lesson about designing ugly PowerPoints
Prism: the PowerPoint presentation so ugly it was meant to stay secret -- The shock of the NSA revelations is less in the content of their slides than quite how badly they have been designed
Shock horror, America (allegedly) is spying (allegedly) on everyone (allegedly)! Last week's revelations of the top secret Prism surveillance programme might not have come as much of a surprise to anyone using Facebook, Google and Apple all day (what else are we chucking out all our own data for, if not to give the spooks a hand?), but it was a shocking story on one count at least
Full story : The Guardian
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A notorious former Colorado Springs city councilman and his wife were cited for child neglect after Colorado Springs police say officers found their 13-year-old son naked and living in a home littered with feces.
Charles E. Wingate and his wife of 17 years, Sharon Starkey, were cited after a neighbor called police, who checked on the home in the 6100 block of Corinth Drive just after noon Thursday.
Police found the boy, described by officers as "autistic," living in what they called extremely unsanitary conditions, which included live and dead rodents in the residence.
"The boy stated he is an only child, home-schooled, and does not remember ever being outside the house. Neighbors confirmed they have not seen the boy outside in several years," police said in a news release.
Police said code enforcement condemned the house as unsafe for living.
In an interview Thursday night, Wingate said he disputed the allegations of neglect and the police description of his home.
"My son at all times has been loved and protected and cared for," Wingate said. "The fact that someone will take this situation and try to blow it into something of a, 'He was somehow abused or neglected or not taken care of,' that's a total inaccurate description of the situation."
Wingate also said the boy, his biological son, is not autistic. "I'm not going to discuss my son's medical condition. That is a very private issue with me." Neighbor Phil Cooper said he didn't know Wingate had a son because he had never seen him.
"I personally hope that he gets more than just a ticket and a slap on the wrist," Cooper said.
Cooper, who has lived in the neighborhood 13 years, said Wingate's home smelled like feces, especially in the summer. But he figured it was from a dog in the backyard.
"Now they're saying that the house was just covered in it inside," he said. "Poor 13-year-old kid."
The boy was taken to a hospital before he was handed over to the state Department of Human Services, police said.
Wingate and Starkey were not home during the investigation but were served a summons on suspicion of child neglect, police said. On her Facebook page, Starkey lists First United Methodist Church as her employer, and in online profiles says she has worked with children with disabilities for years. Church officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Police spokeswoman Barbara Miller said a neighbor called police to check on the boy. She said police have been receiving more "check the welfare" calls after three women who had been missing for years were found alive in Cleveland this month.
Wingate was elected to the council in 2001 after an unsuccessful bid in 1997. At 31, he was the city's youngest elected official, but his career quickly hit the rocks.
Less than three months into his term, it was discovered he was being sued for bouncing checks. A month later, he was investigated because pornographic websites were accessed from his city computer. It was never proven he was at the computer at the time.
In 2002, he was charged with five felonies and two misdemeanors. Police alleged he kept a $190 advance for a council trip and stole the number of a Colorado Springs Utilities credit card and ordered pizza with it. Prosecutors filed 12 more charges in May 2003, including an allegation that he pawned his city-owned computer.
In 2003, Wingate quit the council and pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement of public funds. Other charges were dropped.
He was ordered to jail in 2006, after a judge found he violated probation in the case.
Wingate then said he was late in paying court-ordered fees because he couldn't hold a job.
"I've sought employment, but you spend a year in the papers and on TV, and they know who you are," Wingate said. "It makes it hard."
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Focus On Higher Education
Placed-Based Strategy
Teacher Incentive Fund
Green Ribbon Schools
Presidential Teaching Award
Odds and Ends
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
Focus On Higher Education
Over the last two weeks, the Administration has made several major announcements in higher education.
First, on June 5 at the White House, Vice President Biden, Secretary Duncan, and Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Richard Cordray met with the presidents and senior officials of 10 colleges, universities, and state systems of higher education from across the country to discuss the importance of providing students and families with transparent information about the cost of attendance and financial assistance. These schools have committed to provide all incoming students the following key pieces of information, as part of their financial aid package, beginning with the 2013-2014 academic year:
- how much one year of college will cost;
- financial aid options to pay this cost, with a clear differentiation between grants and scholarships, which do not have to be repaid, and loans, which do;
- net costs after grants and scholarships are taken into account;
- estimated monthly payments for federal student loans the student would likely owe after graduation; and
- information about student results, including comparative information about the rates at which students enroll from one year to the next, graduate, and repay their loans without defaulting on their obligation.
As the Vice President noted, this commitment is "going to empower students and their families to be back in the driver's seat when they're choosing a college and how to pay for that education." (Note: Immediately after this convening, Secretary Duncan and Director Cordray joined White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and called on all college and university presidents to make the same commitment to provide transparent information.)
Next, on June 7 at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV), President Obama reasserted his call for Congress to stop student loan interest rates from doubling (from 3.4% to 6.8%) on July 1 and issued a Presidential Memorandum to make it easier for students to benefit from the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) program, which caps borrowers' monthly student loan payments based on their ability to pay. While the Department recently removed some of the hurdles to completing the IBR process, too many borrowers are still struggling to access this option, due to difficulty in applying. The memorandum (see fact sheet) calls for the Department to:
- work with the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to streamline the IBR application process, by allowing student loan borrowers with federally held loans to import their tax return income data directly into the IBR application (meaning borrowers will no longer be required to contact their loan servicers as the first step and can complete the application in one sitting);
- enhance online and mobile resources for loan repayment options and debt management; and
- increase awareness of IBR, by instructing federal Direct loan servicers to make borrowers aware of the option to participate in IBR before a student leaves school and upon entering repayment and making available for schools a model exit counseling module.
The Department and IRS will implement the first two improvements in the coming months (enhancing online and mobile content by mid-July and streamlining the application with IRS data by the end of September), while the model exit counseling module will be available by this time next year. (Note: A blog post, detailing "everything you need to know" about IBR, is available here.)
Then, on June 12, the Department updated lists on its College Affordability and Transparency Center, highlighting institutions with the highest and lowest tuition and net price and those schools where prices are rising the fastest. In addition, this year, the agency is releasing full lists, so consumers can see how much a specific school costs in comparison to similar institutions. Schools where prices are rising the fastest will report why costs have gone up and how they will address the increases, and the Department will summarize these reports in a document.
Also, the Secretary penned an op-ed on the student loan process for the June 11 edition of Politico, and the White House Open Government Initiative blogged on how "technology, data, and entrepreneurs can help with college affordability."
Placed-Based Strategy
The Department recently adopted a "place-based" approach to improve the impact and effectiveness of its investments. This approach recognizes that the federal government can support strategies to achieve better outcomes for students and families by taking into account where investments are made and how those investments interact with other policies, programs, and resources. A new report, "Impact in Place: A Progress Report on the Department of Education's Placed-Based Strategy," explains how the agency is able to better align its work with other levels of government to address common challenges. Indeed, for the first time, the agency is explicitly using "place" as the unit of analysis, not just the set of programs that the agency funds. Specifically, the report lays out six critical elements for the development and success of place-based strategies and gives examples of implementation. By explaining what it means to be "placed-based" and showing how communities around the nation have adopted this model, the Department hopes to encourage other agencies and communities to work in a place-based way as well.
Teacher Incentive Fund
Last week, the Department announced the final application period for the 2012 Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) competition. This year's $285 million competition includes a new focus on supporting district-wide evaluation systems that reward success, offer greater professional opportunities, and drive decision-making on recruitment, development, and retention of effective teachers and principals. It also invites applications for a separate competition that centers on improving science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) instruction. School districts may apply for a share of funds either individually or in partnership with one or more districts. States and not-for-profit organizations are also invited to apply in conjunction with one or more districts.
Grants will be awarded to applicants that demonstrate readiness to transition to a new evaluation system, involvement of teachers and principals in developing a plan, and effective methods for placing and keeping talent in hard-to-staff schools. Funds would support performance-based compensation and related professional development, as well as the creation and improvement of systems and tools that benefit the entire district. Evaluation systems will incorporate performance tiers and multiple measures, including student growth. Like the 2010 competition, TIF 2012 gives preference to new applicants. Also, new competitive preferences have been added to support salary structures that incorporate teacher and principal performance and applications serving rural districts.
The Department anticipates awarding around 30 grants ranging from $500,000 to $12 million, depending on the size of the grantee and the content outlined in the plan. Awards will supply first-year funding. Additional funding, for years 2 through 5, are dependent on Congressional action. Applications are due July 27. Winners will be announced in September.
Green Ribbon Schools
Also last week, senior officials honored the first 78 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools at a national ceremony in Washington, D.C. The Department released a document with highlights and success stories from the 2012 honorees. Secretary Duncan also announced the initial installment of the Green Strides Webinar Series, to help all schools move toward reduced environmental impact, improved health, and effective sustainability literacy, the three "pillars" of the award. This winter, all schools in participating states will have another opportunity to apply to their state education agencies in competition for states' nominations for next year's awards. The agency will publish 2013 nomination criteria this summer and require states to submit their nominees in early 2013. To date, 29 states and the District of Columbia have already indicated their intent to nominate schools in the next round.
Presidential Teaching Award
This week, President Obama named 97 teachers as recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The award is conferred annually to outstanding K-12 math and science teachers from across the country. The winners are selected by a panel of distinguished educators, mathematicians, and scientists, following an initial selection process at the state level. Each year, the award alternates between elementary and secondary school teachers; the 2011 recipients teach seventh- through twelfth-grade. Winners receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation. They are also invited to Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony and several days of educational and celebratory events.
Odds and Ends
On June 13, the White House Rural Council announced a new online community of practice group for rural schools, providing a platform for educators to connect to resources, tools, and learning activities, both within and beyond schools. Rural school leaders and teachers can join this online community by going here. As membership grows, rural educators will be able to connect with peers in their home states and across the nation to exchange ideas and learn from one another.
Reading over the summer is important not only because it improves literacy and language skills, but also because it prevents what has become known as the "summer slide," a regression in reading ability. With that in mind, a blog post lists five of the best ways to keep your child reading this summer.
Thirty-two communities have been named finalists for the All-American City Award, and another 25 cities and counties were named finalists for Pacesetter Honors. These communities are among the 124 members of the Grade-Level Reading Community Network, all of whom have pulled together to create plans to increase the number of low-income children who are reading proficiently by the end of the third-grade. The full network will gather in Denver on June 30 to explore and share innovative strategies to turn these early literacy plans into action.
The College Savings Account Research Demonstration Project commits $8.7 million to support college savings accounts for students participating in the GEAR UP program, which is designed to increase the college readiness of low-income middle and high school students. The project will provide about 10,000 high school students with savings accounts, as well as counseling, to develop smart financial habits. The project will also study the impact of savings accounts on college access and success by comparing the outcomes of students receiving savings accounts with a control group.
Dr. Catherine Bradshaw, a developmental psychologist and youth violence prevention researcher at Johns Hopkins University, recently took some time to answer questions about her latest research on bullying and school climate.
Quote to Note
"All of us share responsibility for making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive. Parents need to be smart consumers, and students need to finish on time or even early. Colleges and universities need to be efficient and productive in delivering educational value to students. Graduating students ready for success should be as important to professors as research and publishing. Institutions should ensure that keeping costs down does not take a back seat to expensive amenities outside the classroom. Where it makes sense, they should offer lower-cost options such as online learning. States must do their part to make higher education a higher priority in their budgets.... The Obama Administration is working every day to do its part. But, we need Congress to step up and help."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (6/11/12), in an op-ed published in Politico
Upcoming Events
The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge invites parents of children ages 8-12 to submit an original recipe for a lunch that is nutritious and delicious. Entrants have the chance to win a trip to Washington, D.C., as well as the opportunity to be invited to attend a Kids' "State Dinner" at the White House in August, where a selection of the winning healthy recipes will be served. Recipes may be submitted, online or via mail, through June 17.
On June 19, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, the National Assessment Governing Board and a panel of experts will discuss, via live webcast, "Science in Action: Hands-On and Interactive Computer Tasks from the 2009 NAEP Science Assessment," which describes how students performed when asked to predict, observe, and explain results within the context of scientific investigations.
Over the next two weeks, the Department will exhibit at the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Convention in San Jose (June 21-24) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Convention in Orlando (June 25-30). If you are attending either of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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Beckham's five-year stay with Major League Soccer franchise the Los Angeles Galaxy comes to an end this weekend and, at first glance, a move to the second tier of French football may seem an unlikely fit for the former England captain.
But since their relegation from the top flight in 2010, Monaco have been taken over by billionaire Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev, who has lofty ambitions to restore them as a major force.
"We are happy with our current squad but if there's a chance to get a player of Beckham's stature, we'd be foolish not to explore it, " Karlsen told BBC Sport.
"Right now we're trying to learn if Beckham's future ambitions are in sync with ours.
"I understand he's high in demand but it's natural for a player with his experience and quality. Let's see what the next few weeks bring.
"It's a privilege to be linked with world-renowned players like Beckham."
Sources close to the player have confirmed an approach by Monaco, who are an ambitious club with wealthy owners, but that they are not regarded as favourites.
Beckham would probably prefer to go to Ligue 1 heavyweights Paris St Germain if a suitable offer is forthcoming and team up again with coach Carlo Ancelotti and team director Leonardo, whom he knows from his two previous loan spells with AC Milan.
There are also offers from China, Russia and Brazil on the table which Beckham will consider after the Galaxy's MLS Cup final against Houston.
Beckham yesterday said he is weighing up a number of offers, but does not anticipate a swansong in England.
"I still feel I can play and I'm not considering retiring," he told Sky Sports News.
"I do believe I still have got another challenge inside, that I can still play for.
"I've still got managers like Carlo Ancelotti and Harry Redknapp and Sam Allardyce coming out that are saying they'd love me to play and they know how professional I am, it means a lot to me.
"It is what I have tried to base my career around, over the years, being professional and working hard, so it's nice to be recognised like that.
"I've always said I think I would struggle to come back and play in England because I've played for the biggest club in the world, the biggest club in England, Manchester United, and I couldn't see myself playing for any other Premiership team.
"But you never know. Like I said, we've got some exciting options on the table. I do think we'll be spending a little more time in England because it's good for the kids to see their grandparents."


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Tallow Fatty Acids Market to accrue huge gains via rubber & plastic applications over 2017-2024, APAC to impel the regional demand
Tallow Fatty Acids Market is projected to witness an escalating growth over the span of the next few years, driven by the wide range of product applications in personal care items, soaps & detergents, rubber, and plastics. Global cleaning product business revenue, worth over USD 60 billion in 2013, is predicted to surpass USD 100 billion by 2024. It is expected to record a CAGR of over 7% during the period from 2017 to 2024, subject to strict government policies promoting clean & hygiene environment across the manufacturing and food & beverages sector. This will offer lucrative prospects for the industry players to expand their business across the globe. Global Market Insights, Inc., state that tallow fatty acids industry revenue, which is estimated to cross the USD 3 billion by 2024, will grow at a rate of more than 2.5% over 2017 to 2024.
U.S. tallow fatty acids market size, by end-user, 2013 – 2024 (USD Million)
The rapidly developing electronics, automotive, and construction sectors are expected to impel the growth of tallow fatty acids industry in Asia Pacific. India, Indonesia, China, and Japan are more likely to augment the regional growth as a result of large-scale vehicle production & sales across these regions.
North America tallow fatty acids market, worth USD 950 million in 2016, is estimated to register a massive growth over the coming years. Rising demand for plastics along with strict enforcement of regulations for maintaining sanitation across the medical and food & beverages sectors will impel the growth. The U.S. industry is expected to majorly influence the regional revenue.
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Tallow fatty acids industry size in soaps & detergents sector, which was evaluated at over USD 500 million in 2016, is anticipated to experience an enormous expansion in the near future. The growth can be ascribed to rising use of the product in the manufacture of soaps & detergents as a result of its outstanding moisturizing & conditioning characteristics.
Rubber applications are expected to expand at the rate of more than 2% over the coming seven years, subject to the growing use of the product as vulcanizing and anti-tacking agent in the rubber processing sector. It is worth mentioning that the use of the product to enhance the adhesion property of rubber used for manufacturing tires will boost its popularity in the automotive sector.
Polyunsaturated, saturated, and monounsaturated are the key tallow fatty acid products. Saturated tallow fatty acids industry is projected to record a CAGR of more than 2% over the years to come, owing to its effective use in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, rubber & plastics, and oilfield chemicals.
Monounsaturated tallow fatty acids market, which dominated the overall industry share in 2016, is anticipated to experience a lucrative growth over the years ahead. Escalating product popularity across cosmetics, personal care items, and soaps will favorably influence the growth of tallow fatty acids industry.
Global tallow fatty acids industry share was highly fragmented in 2016, with top industry participants accounting for lesser than 30% of the industry size. AkzoNobel N.V., Emery Oleochemicals LLC, BASF SE, Vantage Oleochemicals Incorporation, Chemol Company Incorporation, Baerlocher GmbH, Acme-Hardesty Company Incorporation, Ferromac International NV, H Foster & Company Limited, and The Colgate-Palmolive Company are the major players of tallow fatty acids market.
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Obama prepared for Iraq action
The United States is prepared to take "targeted and precise" military action in Iraq, Barack Obama has announced.
Up to 300 military advisers to help train and advise Iraqi forces will be deployed but American troops "will not be returning to combat in Iraq", the president said in an address from the White House.
Intelligence services will be "significantly" increased to build up a better picture of what is happening on the ground and joint operation centres with Iraqi forces will be set up, he added.
President Obama said: "We will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires.
"If we do I will consult closely with Congress and leaders in Iraq and the region."
US secretary of state John Kerry is being sent to the Middle East and Europe to push a "diplomatic effort" to deal with the crisis.
"Just as all Iraq's neighbours must respect Iraq's territorial integrity, all of Iraq's neighbours have a vital interest in ensuring that Iraq does not descend into civil war or become a safe haven for terrorists," Mr Obama added.
"A bove all, Iraqi leaders must rise above their differences and come together around a political plan for Iraq's future."
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) insurgents overran Iraq's second city, Mosul, last week, and also launched an assault on the country's biggest oil refinery in Baiji, north of Baghdad.
Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted "everything that can be done is being done is being done" to stop Britons being radicalised in Iraq and Syria amid fears that 450 people have joined the ranks the extremist Islamist militant group.
Speaking in Downing Street after talks with Nato secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Prime Minister said: "The work of the security intelligence and policing services is very much now being focused on to this area and has been for sometime and I've chaired meetings in Whitehall to make sure every department is involved in that and everything that can be done is being done."
He added: "We will continue to take all and every step we can to stop people travelling to Syria to prevent them coming back if they have been radicalised and to keep the country safe."
Mr Rasmussen called for the Iraqi Shia-led government to bring in Sunnis and Kurds in an attempt to quell the insurgency.
He said: "On the Iraqi leadership I'm very much in line with the Prime Minister in that what really counts is the political approach and what we need in Iraq is a much more inclusive government that also includes Sunni and Kurd communities."


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Here you see the horrid fireplace wall. We didn't paint it blue like the rest of the room. Well, the wall opposite the fireplace isn't painted either. It's just white, but it has tons of windows on it and we wanted the room to look balanced somehow. I drew red boxes all over the picture of our big, white wall in an effort to get a feel for what I might could do. Perhaps a large rectangle mirror, lots of framed pictures, we don't know what. The fact that the wall is actually two different depths doesn't help.
It's turned into a dumping ground in the living room. Yuck. Everything on the mantel can go. The wood box is our TV garage and should get painted and get decorative knobs. The random tools should get cleaned out of the niche by the fireplace and filled with chopped wood for the winter. You get the picture.
Something needs to happen to this white wall ASAP because although we like the whole fireplace idea, it's a bit of an eyesore just now.
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Pipcecil wrote:the best places to look for QC is through eVgo - they own all the current ones in Texas and their map is up-to-date:
Both Blink (now owned by car charging) and ChargePoint do install DC chargers, but they have none in Texas (yet).
Resurrecting this thread... The statement above was probably true in 2013 but not now.
- Chargepoint DC station, downtown Austin (2nd Street aka "Electric Drive," just off Lamar Blvd) - free if you are on the Austin Energy Plug-In EVerywhere program, otherwise $2/hr, 1 hour minimum. Best charger in Austin, but very popular with the Teslas. If you ask nicely, they'll usually let a Leaf in for a quick top-up.
- Greenlots DC station, Round Rock Kia (exit 254 off IH-35) - free (download free app to use)
- Eaton DC station ALWAYS BROKEN, Town North Nissan, Austin (just off 183 and MoPac). I put this in the list just because I want to call them out. Fix it or replace it, you're an embarrassment!
The EVgo chargers are $10 a pop, which is a little rich for my blood ... at an effective 12¢ or more per mile, I might as well be buying gasoline. The only way I would consider spending that much for a DC charge would be if they had one in Brenham (halfway between Austin and Houston).


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Modernising European public procurement to support growth and employment
Brussels, 20 December 2011: Each year, the public authorities spend 18% of GDP on goods, services and works. Given the current budgetary restrictions and economic difficulties in most Member States, public procurement policy must, more than ever, ensure the optimal use of funds in order foster growth and job creation and thereby help to achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The revision of the public procurement Directives announced by the Commission today is part of an overall programme to thoroughly modernise public tendering in the European Union. This programme also includes a Directive on concessions, which until now have been only partially regulated at European level and present specific features which justify a separate text, while maintaining consistency with the general reform.
The reform of legislation on public procurement is one of the twelve priority actions set out in the Single Market Act adopted in April 2011 (IP/11/469). Indeed, the efficiency of public tendering has become a priority for all Member States, in view of the current budgetary constraints. We therefore need flexible, simple instruments which allow public authorities and their suppliers to conclude transparent, competitive contracts as easily as possible and at the best value for money.
Michel Barnier, European Commissioner responsible for the internal market and services, has declared: "This reform is necessary, ambitious and realistic. The current Directives have proven their worth. But directives must move with the times. I would like to make sure that the public procurement Directives become simpler and more effective and that they make life easier for those whose daily work involves public procurement. As for the proposed Directive on concessions, it represents the completion of the single market for public procurement and will, I hope, allow substantial gains in terms of the efficiency of public expenditure and economic growth in the years to come."
The modernisation of the European rules on public tendering
The proposed reform aims to thoroughly modernise the existing tools and instruments.
1. The main objective is to simplify rules and procedures and make them more flexible. Therefore, the Commission proposes in particular:
2. Encourage access to public procurement for SMEs: access will be increased and made easier through measures to cut the administrative burden and strong incentives to divide tenders into lots and limit the financial capacity requirements for the submission of a tender.
3. At the same time, the proposed reform aims to facilitate a qualitative improvement in the use of public procurement by ensuring greater consideration for social and environmental criteria such as life-cycle costs or the integration of vulnerable and disadvantaged persons, thereby helping to achieve the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
4. The reform also includes:
The Directive on concessions: completing the legal framework for European public procurement
The proposed Directive on concessions covers the partnership agreements between a body which is generally public and a business which is often private, where the latter assumes the operative risk linked to maintenance and development of infrastructures (ports, water distribution, car parks, toll roads, etc.) or to the supply of services of general economic interest (energy, health, water supply and treatment, waste disposal, etc).
It aims to complete the European public procurement regime by including service concessions, the only concession not yet governed by secondary legislation. The proposed rules aim to establish a clear legal framework to ensure the necessary legal certainty for public authorities when performing their duties. They aim to guarantee effective access to the concessions market for all European businesses, including SMEs, and could thus help to stimulate the development of public-private partnerships, for which concessions constitute a tool of choice.
The Commission thus proposes the obligatory publication of concessions in the Official Journal of the European Union. It also proposes specifying the obligations of the contracting authorities as regards the choice of selection and award criteria, imposing certain basic guarantees which should be respected during the award procedure and extending the benefits of the Remedies Directive regarding public procurement to any person interested in obtaining a concession, as well as adopting certain clarifications on, for example, the concession amendments currently under way.
The envisaged provisions do not create an excessive administrative burden and will apply only to large concessions in cases with an evident cross-border interest.
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The Commission's proposals will be transmitted to the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament with a view to launching the legislative procedure for their adoption, scheduled by the Single Market Act to take place before the end of 2012.
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Lt. Gov. Mark Darr did not attend training on campaign finance laws offered by the state Ethics Commission, the panel's director said Thursday.
Darr, who was reprimanded this week by the Ethics Commission and agreed to pay $11,000 in fines violating campaign finance and ethics laws, has not attended any of the training sessions on campaign finance laws that the commission routinely offers, said Executive Director Graham Sloan.
"We offer five or six different training sessions every campaign season," Sloan said Thursday in response to a reporter's question. "We've already done the first one for the 2014 cycle, and then we've got five or six more scheduled. We go to the four corners of the state. We'll be going to Fayetteville and Jonesboro and Dumas and Hope and places like that. We've done that every election cycle."
Sloan also said that "to my knowledge, Mr. Darr never came to any of those sessions."
Attendance at the sessions is voluntary. Sloan said he did not know whether anyone from Darr's staff had attended a session on his behalf.
Darr spokeswoman Amber Pool said Thursday she had "reached out" to the lieutenant governor in response to questions posed by the Arkansas News Bureau. Darr did not immediately respond.
Darr, who owned a pizza business before being elected in 2010, has admitted using campaign money to make about $31,500 in personal purchases but has said he mistakenly believed at the time that he could repay loans that he made to his campaign in that manner.
The commission also found that Darr received about $3,500 in improper travel reimbursements — a more in-depth legislative audit put the amount at more than $9,000, accepted campaign contributions in excess of the individual limit, accepted contributions after the amount needed to retire his debt had been raised, made personal expenditures with campaign funds that exceeded the loans he made to his campaign and submitted campaign finance reports that omitted required information.
In a letter to the commission, Darr on Monday attributed the problems with his campaign finance reports to faulty record-keeping.
"I have failed to keep adequate records of my campaign finances, and as a result my campaign record-keeping and campaign disclosures were inadequate," he said.
Gov. Mike Beebe, state Democratic Party Chairman Vince Insalaco, all five Republican members of Arkansas' congressional delegation and state Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, a candidate for lieutenant governor, have called on Darr, a Republican, to resign.
Darr has said he will not step down.
Beebe, a Democrat, also has questioned whether Darr's violations were mistakes, telling reports Tuesday, "If you mess up once or twice, or you inadvertently do something that's


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(AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk will return to work in Washington on Jan. 3, a year after suffering a major stroke that required months of intense rehabilitation.
Kirk has indicated previously that he'd return to work next month but hadn't specified a date. The Republican's spokeswoman, Erin Athas, confirmed the date on Thursday. She had no further details.
The 53-year-old Kirk suffered a stroke last year which limited movement on the left side of his body. He's undergone rehabilitation for his movement and speech.
Kirk has been releasing video updates on his progress including footage of him working with therapists and climbing stairs.
Kirk discussed his plans with reporters while voting in suburban Chicago last month, not long after he participated in a charity stair climb at the Willis Tower.