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Eucyclodes rufimargo (Warren, 1897) = Chloromachia divapala rufimargo Warren, 1897 = Chloromachia rufimargo = Eycyclodes rufimargo.
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Eucyclodes absona (Warren, 1896)
Eucyclodes albisparsa (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes angiportus (Prout)
Eucyclodes aphrias (Meyrick, 1889)
Eucyclodes benguetensis (Prout)
Eucyclodes buprestaria (Guenée, 1857)
Eucyclodes caledonica (Thierry-Mieg, 1915)
Eucyclodes callisticta (Turner, 1904)
Eucyclodes charma (Prout, 1917)
Eucyclodes difficta (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes discipennata (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes divapala (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes erotyla Turner, 1910
Eucyclodes erymnodes Turner, 1910
Eucyclodes fascinans (Lucas, 1894)
Eucyclodes gavissima (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes goniota (Lower, 1894)
Eucyclodes insperata (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes lepta (West)
Eucyclodes leptocosma (Prout, 1933)
Eucyclodes lithocrossa (Meyrick, 1889)
Eucyclodes metaspila (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes nivestrota (Warren, 1907)
Eucyclodes pieroides (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes praeampla (Warren, 1897)
Eucyclodes sanguilineata (Moore, [1868])
Eucyclodes semialba (Walker, 1861)
Eucyclodes speciosa (Lucas, 1890)
Eucyclodes textiloides Holloway, 1996
Eucyclodes vicaria (Herbulot)


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This week Selling Canadian Science, NASA sued by 'Intelligent' Design, St. Patrick's day and Don's interview with Tony Sobrado – Part 2(of 3), conspiracy theories as political ideology.
Download the episode here!
Harper Government plan to make NRC more business friendly!
Two part talk, first it turns out in raw science Canada punched well above its weight class. Although only producing about 1/10 the papers in science as the USA or UK, our papers are cited more. We have the most influential scientist in the world based on citations…and that is everything in the world of academia.
On this topic, word has come out from Ottawa about an ongoing effort to transform the National Research Council's directions. The NRC is a government agency that funds the majority of research in Canada. The Harper government would like to see the agency focus less on "blue sky" projects and develop a 'concierge' or "1-800 number" service for businesses. We take a short and balance look at how this could affect our place in the science community.
Find out more:
- UK Study about science citations
- The Current – NRC changes driven by business needs
- NRC business centric ad
CFI newly "Elected" board of directors
We review the new members and the slow but steady move towards democratic governance and CFI.
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NASA Sued by "Intelligent" Design
NASA is facing a lawsuit by David Coppedge. Coppedge claims religious discrimination and wrongful dismissal when he was laid off during recent NASA budget cuts. We examine his claim and its implications for NASA, the work place and the possibility of legally imposing 'intelligent' design.
Find out more:
- RawStory – NASA faces trial over alleged discrimination against intelligent design proponent
- CBC – Community reaction to NASA 'intelligent design' lawsuit
- Discovery Institute – In the David Coppedge Trial, Intelligent Design Is Where the Threads All Intersect
- Fox News – NASA scientists claims he was harassed, demoted over intelligent design beliefs
- Skeptic's Dictionary – intelligent design
St. Patrick's Day Debate?
We have an interesting discussion about the origins of St. Patrick's Day and should we as atheist celebrate a Catholic Feast Day? Ethan also questions if the holiday as we now have perpetuating 'racist' stereotypes of the Irish.
Find out more:
- National Geographic – St. Patrick's Day 2012: Facts, Myths, and Traditions
- History Chanel – St. Patrick's Day by the numbers
- 17 Things to Know About St. Patrick's Day
- Early Christian Ireland
- Brian Boru struggle to become High King of Ireland
Tony Sobrado interview Part 2 – Conspiracy theory as political ideology
This week we start a three part series with Tony Sobrado. Tony Sabrado Tony is a research analyst and social scientist currently based in London. Author of the soon to be published book "Who rules the world: An analysis to conspiracy theory". He also contributes to the Huffington Post.
Part 2 – We define what a conspiracy is, the sociological history of conspiracy theory and the frame-work Tony has developed to help analyse conspiracy theories from a social/political science perspective.
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It's Wrong to Wreck the World: Climate Change and the Moral Obligation to the Future
Kathleen Dean Moore, co-founder of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word and professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, will talk on the importance of viewing climate change as a moral crisis and taking a moral response towards the issue.
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"In our generation, as Thomas Berry writes, we have done to the Earth what no previous generation has done, because they lacked the technological power, and what no future generation will be able to do, because the planet will never again be so beautiful or abundant. In the process, we have degraded, and perhaps changed forever, the great systems that sustain our lives. This is a scientific and technological crisis, assuredly. But it is fundamentally a moral crisis, and it calls for a moral response. Why has climate-change science elicited such stunning indifference? What calls us to act? How can we respond to the crisis in ways that honor duties of compassion, justice, and respect for human rights? How can we discuss these values across differences? How do we live, when we truly understand that we live in complete dependence on an Earth that is interconnected, interdependent, finite, resilient, and heart-breakingly beautiful?"
When: Wed. Mar. 21, 7pm,
Location: Alma VanDusen Room, Vancouver Public Library
Cost: Free
SFU Continuing Studies in Science and Environment Lecture Series
Seeing the Strings: Capitalism and You
Our aim is to initiate meaningful deliberation in Vancouver around how capitalism operates, and its reliance on both visible and invisible forms of domination and exploitation in order to function.
Each event will be split into three equally important components that will work to build both personal and community-wide understanding of the topics.
First, a discussion will explore the themes of the event within a historical and theoretical context. This will create a system-wide explanation or "big picture," demonstrating not only what the specific form of oppression addressed is, but also how it operates within capitalism.
Then, a second speaker will explore the topic in a historically present context, using examples from living communities to reveal the connections between past and present, theory and practice.
The third component of the night will be a participatory workshop, with strong facilitation, involving all attendees. There will be small group discussions with small or large group movement activities that will enable individuals to explore how the topic at hand functions in their own life, to learn about the experiences of others, and to see that oppression functions systemically, affecting everyone in different ways.
When: Fri. Mar. 23, 7pm,
Location: Alma VanDusen Room, Vancouver Public Library
Cost: By donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Vancouver Media Co-op
University of Lethbridge new chair in Alt-Med
It was recently announced that the University of Lethbridge has received funds and is creating a chair of Complementary and Alternative Health Care.
This is more of a low-light than highlight but something to keep our eyes on. Recent moves in Canada, Australian and the USA by proponents of Alt-Med are intended to bring legitimacy by association where actually achieving scientific success as failed them.
Droog gift establishes Chair in alternative health care

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The Lady Bisons continued their non-conference play on Feb. 13 against the University of Tennessee-Martin at the Whitworth Raquet Club.
In a tough match, the Lady Bisons lost 6-1.
"We lost the match 6-1, but it is not a true reflection of how close the match was," said coach Kristin Lusk.
Falling close to winning the doubles point, Kara Jackson and Danielle Hansen lost to S. Leavy and A. Le Merle 9-8.
"We barely lost the doubles point after Danielle Hansen and Kara Jackson fell to Leavy and Merle 9-8, said Lusk.
"It was the best match I have seen them play this year, but unfortunately we were not able to pull it out. If Hansen and Jackson continue to play as well as they did tonight they will end up upsetting a lot of teams this season."
Doubles winners for the Lady Bisons were Raphaela Jann and Claire Landry, who defeated J. Tiley and E. Koornhof 8-5.
"Raphaela Jann and Claire Landry continued to roll at number three doubles," said Lusk. "They have played well together all year and only have one loss (Memphis)."
For singles, the Lady Bisons had some tight, close sets.
Jann went into a tie breaker against M. Wahl, and lost 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Danielle Hansen also advanced into a tie breaker with J. Tiley. Hansen lost 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
"All the singles matches were extremely close," said Lusk. "We split sets and number one and number four and had an extremely close match three. There were a lot of momentum shifts in all singles matches and we weren't able to capitalize on them.
"The girls know what they need to do to improve and I am confident that this loss will make us a better team."
The Lady Bisons travel to Dayton, Ohio this weekend (Feb. 21) to compete in the Dayton Collegiate Tournament. They begin conference play March 6 at ETSU.
The Lady Bisons are on the road until March 11, when they will play IPFW at 4 p.m. in Nashville.
"This was a great match for us to play before conference matches though," said Lusk. "A lot of the A-Sun matches we play will be close, and we need experience in tight situations."
1. S. Leavy/A. Le Merle (UTM) def. K. Jackson/D. Hansen (LU) 9-8 (5)
2. M. Wahl/B. De Bito (UTM) def. E. Keevil/O. Ellis (LU) 8-0
3. R. Jann/C. Landry (LU) def. J. Tiley/E. Koornhof (UTM) 8-5
1. M. Wahl (UTM) def. Raphaela Jann (LU) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2
2. S. Leavy (UTM) def. Kara Jackson (LU) 6-03, 6-1
3. B. DeBrito (UTM) def. Elizabeth Keevil (LU) 6-3, 7-5
4. J. Tiley (UTM) def. Danielle Hansen (LU) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
5. A. LeMerle (UTM) def. Claire Landry (LU) 6-1, 6-2 6. O. Ellis def E. Koornhof (win by default)


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Enjoy solving problems? Good at math?
Moody's Mega Math Challenge will award $100,000 in high school math contest
High school juniors and seniors from Maine to Florida are invited to participate in the fifth annual Moody's Mega Math Challenge for a chance to win part of $100,000 in scholarship prizes. The competition, which is entirely Internet based and free of entrance and participation fees, challenges teams of students to solve an open-ended, realistic, applied math-modeling problem focused on real-world issues in just 14 hours. The problem is unknown to teams until Challenge weekend (March 6-7, 2010) when they are able to download it and work on their solution. Registration is now open!
Participation in the Challenge is a great way to find out what it's like to work on a business team and it looks great on college applications. And, of course, there's always the scholarship money: the top team in Moody's Mega Math Challenge will walk away with $20,000 in prizes.
Since 2006, more than 4,000 high school juniors and seniors have participated in the Challenge and winners have received $275,000 in scholarship prizes for submitting and presenting the top solutions to complex, real-world problems. Each year's problem is kept a secret until teams download it at 7:00 a.m. on their selected work day during Challenge weekend. They have until 9:00 p.m. that same night to research the problem, formulate assumptions, develop and test a model, analyze their findings, and summarize their response in a solution paper, which they upload to the Challenge website.
"Schools of all types and sizes have had success in this competition -- you don't need a math club or math team captain to win -- and I strongly encourage all high schools to participate," said Michelle Montgomery, M3 Challenge Project Director. "Teams made up of students with a variety of skills who can work well together under a tight deadline have been most successful."
The goal of Moody's Mega Math Challenge is to increase interest and encourage high school students to pursue studies and careers in applied mathematics, economics, and finance. The Challenge spotlights applied mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, as a viable and exciting profession, and as a vital contributor to advances in an increasingly technical society. It is funded by The Moody's Foundation and organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
About the Sponsor
The Moody's Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting a variety of nonprofit education, health and human services, civic, and arts and culture programs. Established by Moody's Corporation in 2001, the Foundation's primary area of giving is secondary and higher education with a focus on mathematics, economics and finance. Further information is available at: http://philanthropy.moodys.com.
Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), an essential component of the global capital markets, provides, credit ratings, research, tools, and analysis that contribute to transparent, and integrated financial markets. Moody's Corporation is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics, encompassing Moody's non-ratings businesses. With revenues of $1.8 billion in 2009, Moody's employs approximately 4,000 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 27 countries. Further information is available at www.moodys.com.
About the Organizer
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, is an international society of over 12,000 individual members. These include applied and computational mathematicians and computer scientists, as well as other scientists and engineers. Members are researchers, educators, students, and practitioners from 85 countries in industry, government, laboratories, and academia. The Society, which also includes almost 500 academic and corporate institutional members, serves and advances the disciplines of applied mathematics and computational science by publishing a variety of books and prestigious peer-reviewed research journals, by conducting conferences, and by hosting activity groups in various areas of mathematics. SIAM provides many opportunities for students including regional sections and student chapters. Further information is available at www.siam.org.


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Police have named the girl who fell to her death from a Gold Coast highrise as 17-year-old Isabelle Colman from The Gap in Brisbane.
She was a student at Mt St Michaels College at Ashgrove.
"Isabelle's family has asked that their privacy be respected at this difficult time," police said in a statement on Friday.
Police have said Ms Colman was alone before she fell to her death from the 26th floor of the Chevron Renaissance apartment tower at Surfers Paradise on Thursday night.
She had been staying in a unit at the property with a friend.
Earlier on Friday, Assistant commissioner Graham Rynders said he'd met with the girl's parents, and they were deeply traumatised.
Mr Rynders said the girl was not skylarking before she fell.
Asked if anything could have been done to prevent the tragedy, he said: "In this case, absolutely not".
Alison Terrey, the principal of the Catholic college Isabelle attended, said the school was providing counselling support for the Mt St Michael's community.
"The ... college community is deeply saddened by the tragic death of one of our former students at the Gold Coast last night," she wrote.
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In her interview with Oprah, and in response to what she thinks of the religious criticism of her use of magic in her books, JK Rowling paraphrases the following quote:
"'in magic man has to rely on himself "
She goes on to explain that magic is a way for people to take control of their own lives, and to change the world around them, unlike in religion where you have to accept the world as it is.
This quote reminds me that we all have a certain power in ourselves, and the best we can do with our life is to use it the best we can. This means not using religion as an excuse.
She further explains that magic is kind of like having a lot of money.
My own thought and question for discussion is: do you think that atheism is like magic in this way? As atheists do we have a responsibility to shape our world for the better, just as someone with magic or money would have?
here's the link to the video
start around 5:00 to hear her discuss the quote.
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Magick is merely another form of mysticism...just as religion. In primitive societies magic(k), plays a massive role in manipulating people, just as religion. The magic we see on TV a la bending of spoons is mentalism and trickery. JK Rowling's statement (and her books) is designed to sell the fantasy of so-called 'magic'. People who rely on themselves don't need magic. Unfortunately comic book super heroes, magic such as JK Rowlings' books create a fantasmagoric mindset in thousands of youths and could lead to tragedy as happened to my own 5-year grandson who thought he was Superman and could fly: he died after leaping off my Land Rover.
To answer your question: atheism is anything but magic except if what you mean is that it liberates the mind from the bullshit of religion; JKR's explanation that magic = money is total baloney as well; money is the reward for effort/work/creativity....not magic! Atheism is merely the view that a god doesn't exist---period no more or less! Atheists are usually skeptics as well and as such would question "magic" in all its tenets.
That's actually very intersting...i wasn't really thinking of it in that way and I totally agree, but
I was thinking more along the lines of your second paragraph. Yes money is earned, but I was thinking of magic as a skill you worked at, so I can see there being effort and creativity there as well. I think the parallels between magic and money work if thought about in the context of her book actually, because Harry didn't know it existed, and learned to live without it, but then it was thrust upon him, so he knows both sides of the world...just like JK Rowling has experienced poverty, so now she has money she has a better understanding of what to do with it. Also, many atheists have experienced religion, but now have atheism providing clarity and reason.
Maybe you should clarify what you mean by "working at ...magic as a skill"?? Not sure I follow.
i just mean magic not in the sense that you point your finger and whatever you want happens, but magic where you have to learn and study spells, practice techniques, and magic that has limits based on your efforts, creativity, and knowledge.
The general idea of magic or belief in magic within the real world is as you described it; much more like religion. This leads me back to the witch hunts and times when both religion and magic were at war with each other. Both were completely ridiculous and as you said manipulating people who didn't know better than to believe what the world presented them with. Now it is understood that except for illusions, magic is impossible, and many are starting to understand that so is religion.
But in a world where magic could exist, and in the way it does in Harry Potter, those who are magic can't really use their power unless they work at it. The characters spend their whole life learning and improving their control of magic, just as in the real world we spend our whole lives gaining knowledge and experience so we can make a difference, make a lot of money, be happy, or whatever your motives are for being successful with your life.
I think i should also clarify that I originally thought this quote could relate to atheism because one of the ways I justify people who believe they feel god's presence, or that god got them through a tough time, is that I believe people have so much going on within themselves at subconscious levels and they feel their own strength come out at times. they don't recognize it, however, and attribute the feelings to a higher power or some form of spirit. When I heard Rowling describing the quote, and how magic (metaphorically) allows characters to do something and think for themselves, I immediately thought about that power we all have in ourselves, but only some are aware of it. If you let religion guide your deepest self, you won't have the power or magic to really understand the world or your place in it.
Ok: let's see if I understand you now: your 'magic' is what others may call 'inspired actions/inspiration' or 'self-motivation' or even 'willpower';
I live in Africa and have worked among very primitive and unsophisticated people for many years. The notion that you are in control of your own destiny is alien to the most of them and this reflects in their traditions, belief systems and even in their languages. Some years ago, I trained illiterate people in the skills of 'supervision' in an industrial environment. To illustrate what 'motivation' was I was forced to use subterfuge as the word did not exist in their vocabulary; so I sketched a situation. It goes like this:
I placed a construction plank of about 5 meters long by 300mm wide on the ground and challenged them to walk along the plank without falling off: no problem! They all succeeded. Then I said to them "imagine this same plank is 100 metres in the air between 2 buildings. Would you be able to walk across?"
"No ways they replied, we'll fall off"
"Why?' I asked.
"Because the ground is pulling us down"
"OK, what if your 4 year old child is on the other side and in danger?"
"Wow, now I'll run across"
"OK so what changed?"
"My child is in danger"
"OK so imagine you're halfway across and your child is saved from the danger, what now?"
"I will fall down"
and so I would carry on to explain the power of the mind and how one's imagination can influence your behaviour...etc etc Magic No?
In JKR's case I find that people with unsophisticated mindsets take much of Harry's type of stuff literally as they do religion....and therein lies the rub. If you have an educated/liberated mind you are normally able to contextualise fairy tales and myths within a framework of reality and logic. If you don't... mysticism becomes an all invasive influence and hence dangerous.
Yes we have power within ourselves: no it's not magic but a critical consciousness, logic and reasoning that needs to be unlocked with a liberal education and an understanding that we are the architects (to some degree anyway) of our own destinies
In my opinion, the mere analogy of magic has little to do with the hocus pocus and external agents. It relates to me more as an internal sensation, a quality that establishes our existence. At the risk of being dangerously close to a God like image, it infact establishes man in his own right as the creator, maintainer and the destroyer of existence.
This terminology may well be redefined as natural and inconspicuous as the birds and the bees. I wonder... what if it is us that cause life and death.. what if it is our energy/magic or what you may wish, that constitutes this godliness, and if, as i said before, this magic is breathing from within, then it makes us gods in our own space. If you consider to separate this from the realm of mysticism and understand that this is nothing supernatural that i am wondering about but probably a phenomenon that exists as naturally as oxygen within us. Then my religion would be to take care of this magic within and that which exists in others. and my worship would be a celebration of this power i hold- much like humanism. ofcorse then, a true sin would be to abuse this power within or outside. the use of parallel terminology is just to make an easy understanding. in other...
your opinions are welcome :)
Yes, it all comes down to whether or not you abuse your power. Religion gives people excuses to abuse power, or gives people the false idea that they have no power. To believe yourself powerless and unable to act without God's strength acting through you can create passive, oppressed, or boring people who don't live their lives true to themselves, avoiding their true feelings and desires for fear they are evil temptations...of course it also creates people who do whatever they want and claim it was god's will, but it is by causing the former that is the biggest abuse of religion in my mind. If it were a place for people to connect with their own version of spirituality,great; but when religion seeks to dim and in the more extreme cases stamp out this inner power, they are crushing humanity and our greatest power and force of good.
So well put! thanks for taking the time to understand what I was trying to say. Your story about the people in Africa is so interesting. How did they react once they understood motivation? Did you notice a change in them, like an epiphany of sorts, or a thirst for more knowledge? Or did most of them just continue on with their lives as they always had?
:) atleast that makes two of us!
It is difficult to say the least when you try to change traditions, hang-ups and superstition. A mere training intervention seldom achieves this. One of the most difficult issues is the external locus of control that these people have (generalisation of course); ergo, if a machine breaks down it is the fault of the machine, not the operator...in golf for example when you hit a shit shot into a tree the African caddy would say something like:
"the tree stopped your ball"!
Thirst for knowledge? yes massive...willingness to learn? Yes enormous, hence they are like a blank chalkboard that accepts almost anything without questioning or interrogating content or source. So missionaries are literally from God and to be obeyed. Sadly this has for example led to the recent purge of gay/lesbians in Uganda due to 3 American missionaries who have convinced government to legislate against them...see what I mean?
Another VERY embarrasing story:
After a course such as I described earlier, one old man got up and in his thank you speech said to me:
"We have been debating who you are. We eventually came to the conclusion you are Jesus Christ!"
WOW, I was blown away even as an atheist as I realised that I had touched their lives in a 'magical' way.
Magic rituals are similar to both Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and it's treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. They are rituals we use for anxiety mitigation and extinction.
OCD Example: knock on wood, when we say something we don't want to come true. The knocking does not actually prevent it from happening, but it does mitigate some of the anxiety.
CBT Example: Fire walking exposes people, in a controlled environment, to fire (which is something worthy of fear and perhaps a symbol for fear itself) so that they can face their fears and overcome them.
I was big into the occult for a while and I can pretty much back this up though a lot of anecdotal evidence (not the strongest, but it is supported by some neuroscience). Magic is often a means by which a person can harness the power of the placebo for anxiety mitigation and/or extinction. There's no woo woo required.
As far as magic making people believe that the power is within them, that's not necessarily the case. Many rituals make appeals to exterior agents (spirits, gods, demons, angels, faeries, etc...) and petition them for help. At best, the power lies in the ritual itself. People with OCD may feel as if they are powerless against their own rituals, for instance. I think the power lies in understanding rituals, what their purpose is, how they affect our behavior, what their limitations are, and how we can use them to enhance our lives. This, of course, requires that we ditch all the woo woo surrounding ritual and realize that it's all psychological symbolism.
i think there is a tangent here on the two meanings of magic we are referring to. what i infer from yours is a more material, may i say(?) use. you are talking about the magic with a form.. like a medicine or herb that we cultivate.
while the other explanation could be not in reference to the occult or fairytale kind of magic but an existence within.. more on a spiritual space, if you know what i am saying..
depends on whether we confer to the conventional definitions or relax our imagination to depths beyond words :)


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CRESTVIEW � In an era when competition has never been fiercer in high school sports, sometimes, the quality of facilities can make the difference between winning and losing. From well maintained fields and gyms to weight rooms and locker rooms, Crestview High School and Baker and Laurel Hill schools� coaching staffs frequently improve what they have to make the experience more enjoyable for players and fans.
CRESTVIEW � In an era when competition has never been fiercer in high school sports, sometimes, the quality of facilities can make the difference between winning and losing.
From well maintained fields and gyms to weight rooms and locker rooms, Crestview High School and Baker and Laurel Hill schools� coaching staffs frequently improve what they have to make the experience more enjoyable for players and fans.
Crestview High School
So far, Crestview athletic director and head football coach Tim Hatten, who was hired last month, says he�s impressed with the Bulldogs� venues.
Hatten � who came to Crestview from Pearl River Community College in Mississippi and, prior to that, was Haines City�s head football coach � has visited numerous high school campuses in Mississippi and across Florida, and he said Crestview's facilities are among the best he's seen.
"We probably had 22 high schools in our recruiting district at Pearl River, and those schools ranged from 1A high schools to 6A high schools, with the top-end enrollment being right at 2,000 students," he said. "Certainly, we would be in the top 5 percent in the state, from what I've seen in recruiting over the last 11 years. And in my 14 years in Polk County, I would say our facilities are as good (as) or better than any of the 20-something schools in Polk County."
The Bulldog�s 3,400-square-foot weight room is the football facility�s highlight, Hatten said. He praised Crestview baseball coach Tim Gillis and the Crestview softball program for their ball park maintenance.
However, he said, there is always room for improvement.
"Everyone that is going to come to your facility is going to have an idea here and there about how you can spruce it up," he said. "A little bit of labor here and there and we will make it even better."
As a 6A school, Crestview has all the facilities necessary, but that's not the case for other north county schools.
Baker School
Baker athletic director and head football coach Matt Brunson is quick to express his gratitude for the Gators� facilities. Doug Griffith Memorial Stadium � which seats between 2,000 and 2,500 fans � is the perfect size for a 1A school and more than serves its purpose.
Brunson praised coaches and school maintenance staffers for the facilities� upkeep. However, he pointed out that Baker has obstacles that other area schools lack. "At Baker, we have a very unique situation because we are a K-12 (school)," he said. We run a full middle school program with all of our middle school teams playing athletics. We have a full JV program and a full varsity program� of basketball, volleyball, football, soccer and track. "It handicaps us during, say, basketball season with only one gymnasium and we are splitting up between our middle school teams, boys and girls, our JV teams, boys and girls, and our varsity teams, boys and girls."
Additionally, the school lacks a baseball field, but uses the community baseball and softball complex. "The baseball field down there is very nice," Brunson said. �The thing ... is, it's not on campus so our kids can't use it during the school day. And we don't have any dressing facilities down there.�
The school mostly needs dressing rooms for athletes and bathrooms for fans, he said. Additionally, space in the 1,400-square-foot field house and weight room is getting tight, he said. "We definitely need more square footage in our weight room.� Three-thousand square feet would be adequate.
Still, he said, "as far as the niceness of our facilities and the upkeep job our coaches do, I would grade them high: an A" he said. "But as far as the feasibility and the square footage of our weight room facility and the lack of gym space for our teams, I'd grade it very low, a D maybe.And as far as our baseball field being displaced down the road and our guys not being able to walk out back and having a practice facility and a dressing room facility, I'd grade that very low. But as far as us coaches making it work with what we've got and the upkeep of the facilities and it being what it is, I think it's fine. So overall it would be a C plus or B minus.�
Laurel Hill
LaurelHill School, Okaloosa County�s smallest public school with a high school athletic program, only fields teams in volleyball, boys and girls basketball, baseball and softball, but facility maintenance is still a concern.
The school takes pride in and frequently upgrades the facilities, Laurel Hill athletic director and head boys basketball coach Kent Zessin said. "Any time we are able to get funding for athletic facilities, it is greatly appreciated, and we try to stretch that money as far as we possibly can," he said. "We have done some ... renovation or remodeling to our three athletic facilities over the last 10 years, starting with the softball field, adding lights, and (as) recently as last year, adding two dugouts to that facility.
"As far as the baseball facility, it has been ... maybe eight years now that a new backstop was put in, a three-foot wall with the netting. Also, there was a renovation of the dugout, a new scoreboard, infield grass and irrigation system that brought that facility up to par with everyone in the county."
The Hoboes� gym that is home to the volley and basketball teams has received improvements in the last five years as the school made the gym handicap accessible, stripped and refinished the court and upgraded restroom facilities. Gym renovations resulted in 150 fewer seats then the initial 750 capacity, but it was necessary for the gym to be handicap accessible.
Going forward, Zessin would like to see the locker rooms � unchanged since the gym was built in 1969 � get a makeover. "The wish list would be to actually add dressing room facilities for visiting teams, both boys and girls as well as home team, so we would have four dressing rooms," he said. "That way, we could kind of take care of our own and the visitors when they come here. They would have something nice also and the physical education classes could use that ... It would take some planning, but it could be done."
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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What can USPS learn from TRICARE in funding retiree health care costs?
Federal News Radio
March 14, 2014
Jack Moore
The U.S. Postal Service has long maintained that requiring it to set aside funding for future retirees' health care costs in the form of fixed multibillion-dollar annual payments is a drag on its dire financial condition.
In fact, the agency has defaulted on billions of dollars in such payments in recent years and, absent reform legislation from Congress, will do so again when the next payment comes due in October.
But as lawmakers consider efforts to shore up the agency's financial footing, widespread disagreement remains over whether the current prefunding requirement is fiscally responsible, as Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) argued during a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing Thursday, or an "onerous mandate" only required of the Postal Service, as Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) contended.
TRICARE also prefunded
The hearing, chaired by Farenthold, examined the $100 billion in unfunded liabilities clouding the agency's balance sheet. Future retiree health costs make up nearly half of the future costs for which the agency has not yet set aside sufficient funding to pay.
Postal officials and employee unions argue they're the only agency required to prefund retiree health care costs. But while the Postal Service might be in a precarious situation it's far from unprecedented, Farenthold suggested. He pointed to a requirement that the Defense Department's Defense Health Agency also prefund future payments for its Medicare-eligible TRICARE recipients.
"I just wanted to have them scratch that talking point off so we could talk about some other things," Farenthold said of his decision to invite DoD officials to testify at the Postal Service hearing.
However, Democrats on the committee were quick to shoot down what they suggested was an "apples to oranges" comparison.
For one thing, the Postal Service is a self-sustaining agency that doesn't receive money from Congress. DoD, on the other hand, receives annual appropriations that support its prefunding requirement, said Lynch, the committee's ranking member.
For their part, DoD officials said while the department does receive annual funding from Congress, it wasn't provided any extra money to make the required payments. "The DoD topline was not increased by the amount of the payment into the trust fund," said Robert Moss, the Defense Health Agency's budget and resource management chief. "So, DoD was told, 'You still have your essential funding level and from that you will start to prefund the trust fund.'"
The Postal Service's prefunding requirement is also more aggressive than DoD's, Democratic members argued.
The Government Accountability Office's chief actuary, Frank Todisco, told the committee that while funding targets for both DoD and USPS are designed to meet 100 percent of future obligations, the Postal Service's schedule may be more "ambitious" because payments are frontloaded in the first 10 years.
In fact, thanks to that frontloaded schedule, the Postal Service's unfunded liability for retiree health care costs is actually much smaller than DoD's. The trust fund for Medicare-eligible TRICARE recipients is currently only about 39 percent funded, while the Postal Service has made nearly half its required payments.
Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) said Republican lawmakers were trying to hold the Postal Service to an unfair standard.
"To hold this agency to one standard and not other agencies ... nobody's talked about dismantling the federal government when we've got $17 trillion in national debt," he said.
USPS -- like TRICARE -- wants more integration with Medicare
Still, there is at least one area where USPS officials hope to draw from the lessons of TRICARE: better integrating retiree health coverage with Medicare.
Health care costs for military retirees are primarily covered by Medicare with only supplemental coverage provided under the TRICARE For Life program. Health care costs for postal retirees, however, are primarily covered by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, even though postal employees — and USPS as their employer — pay into Medicare.
In fact, about 10 percent of postal retirees are not enrolled in Medicare Part A, which covers hospital stays, and about 24 percent aren't enrolled in Part B, which covers doctor visits and preventive services.
The Postal Service's proposed solution would make Medicare the primary provider for USPS retirees, while postal-only plans within FEHBP would continue to provide wrap-around coverage.
This "would virtually eliminate the future unfunded liability" for health care costs, said Jeffrey Williamson, the Postal Service's chief human resources officer and executive vice president.


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According to the GC forums, a new Southern Ontario coin is going on sale this Thursday.
If anyone is planning on ordering some of these, I would greatly appreciate if you could order an extra one for me. I am heading out of town on Thursday morning and won't be around when they go on sale.
I met 1701eh at several geocaching events when I lived in New York. He lived in Mississauga, ON and was killed recently in a car accident. I just noticed today that his 2000th find was at Master Instigator's Wacko Willy's Wicked Hoard cache in July. He was a real nice guy with a great sense of humour and will definitely be missed.
Part of the proceeds from this coin are going to support his family, which is another reason that I would really like to be able to order one of these.
Junglehair I will order two and make the extra available for you
1701eh was a Winnipegger; Tony Dawe graduated from FRC in 1978. He had been watching the MBGA forums up until August 21st. I corresponded with him briefly and he was very quick to extend the hand of friendship. The GeoCaching community has lost a great cacher.
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Junglehair I will order two and make the extra available for you
We will be ordering 2 coins at least. 1701eh was one of our first experiences with the caching community in a broader sense. He had taken our FTF in our first cache (his first outside of Ontario) Winnie's Big Cache and had taken our first travel bug Winnie the Peg with him on his travels. We corresponded a few times and we always found an intellignet, friendly word in his correspondence. We are quite saddened by his passing.
I have ordered 7 of this coins,
Shipping is sheduled for Sept 28, I will contact each of the following by P/M when I get them.
junglehair X 1, spongebob X 2, jaypeg X 1 slippery X 1= 5 coins spoken for
Anyone else want a coin.....
Sure Slippery, I'll buy a coin if you have an extra one.
Slippery, I'll take 1 if it's still available.
slippery_1 wrote:
I have ordered 7 of this coins,
I have found out these coins are to be shipped this Monday Oct 2/06.
Will let everyone know when they get here.
slippery_1 wrote:
slippery_1 wrote:
I have ordered 7 of this coins,
slippery_1 wrote:
I have ordered 7 of this coins,
They are here, and where worth the wait.
I will be bringing these down with me next week, to ensure they do not get lost in shipping. These are a great looking coin, and worthy of anyones collection. I am proud we can do a small part in helping out someone else by our meger contribution with the purchase of these coins.
Cost per coin including, shipping, exchange etc is $ 10.15.
If you all can't make the supper let me know and I'll let Tim know and you can make arrangements to get it from him, here is the break down,
Spongebob Family X 2
Junglehair X 1
Peter & Gloria X 1
Turdleggs X 1
jaypeg X 1
slippery_1 X 1 = 7 coins and thats all folks..
If anyone of you does not want the coin let me know please, would love to keep one and then send one out cause I have this feeling this will become a much saught after coin.


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St. Andrew's Camp and Chapel (Jewell, New York)
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St. Andrew's Camp was founded in 1954 by a small pan-Orthodox group of Christians from the Syracuse area. St. Andrews Camp and Religious Center is operated by 'The Orthodox Charitable and Educational Foundation, Inc.' The beautiful fields, wooded shore and lakeside facilities are perfect for camping, retreats community and family gatherings or for an individual respite, but the focus of the camp's attention has been to offer a summer camping program since 1956. The thousands of camper and staff alumni include numerous church leaders, lay and clergy, throughout the world.
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Hairpin Leg Media Consoles from Maria Yee
Our team at High Point Market is continuing their on-the-floor reporting today, with Jason spying a handsome pair of hairpin leg media/TV consoles, one narrow and tall, the other wide and low, from designer Maria Yee. Also a very unusual desk well-suited for Wayne Manor below…
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The 2011 Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language
Arts and Literacy provides the primary foundation for literacy
instruction at the Kennedy-Longfellow School. This framework builds on
the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy
and clearly defines and communicates what is expected of students at
each grade level as they grow into a literate person of the 21st
The Literacy Collaborative Framework provides a
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Tickengo, one of several tech companies that come under fire for using smart phone apps that compete with taxi and limo services, has disabled an instant ride feature to try to comply with a cease-and-desist order by the state Public Utilities Commission.
The Daly City company, which is represented by former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, said it was disabling instant rides from its iOS and Android apps this week "to eliminate any doubt that it is compliant with the law" and to distance itself from Uber, SideCar and Zimride, which were each hit with $20,000 fines by the PUC.
Tickengo said its service gives people who want to schedule a ride a way to connect with non-professional drivers who might be able to give them a ride in their own cars.
But Tickengo believes its "instant ride" feature, which is supposed to find an available car right away, made it appear to be too much like a taxi service. The service didn't work as well as the scheduled ride service because "in reality, we could not guarantee an immediate response because we never had a fleet of drivers. Many immediate ride requests went unanswered," spokeswoman Tania Hew said in an e-mail.
So the company was dropping the instant ride option from its apps to make it clear "that we never managed or intended to manage a fleet of drivers giving multiple rides per day and driving around like taxis" like the other three companies, Hew said.
A PUC spokeswoman said commission officials still want to talk to Tickengo representatives.
"We are meeting with Tickengo this week to discuss the issue," PUC spokeswoman Terrie Prosper said in an e-mail. "Our goal is not to stop innovation or to prevent consumers from getting the transportation services they want. Or goal, and our job under the law, is to make sure the services are safe."
The PUC earlier this year issued a cease-and-desist order against Tickengo, Uber, SideCar and Zimride's app Lyft for violating state regulations that govern taxis, limos and other commercial public transportation services.
Two weeks ago, the PUC fined Uber, SideCar and Lyft for continuing to violate the orders. Each have said they will contest the fines.
"We don't understand why the CPUC put us in the same category as the other companies because we definitely don't do the same thing," Tickengo CEO Geoff Mathieux said in a statement. "Tickengo is about getting a ride from a neighbor who drives others occasionally to reimburse her car expenses."
PUC General Counsel Frank Lindh said Tickengo might be the next in line for a fine if it didn't abide by the order, which was issued to protect public safety. The companies were using new technology, but were still commercial entities arranging for rides for people, which meant they had to comply with existing regulations, Lindh said.


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Unfinished Nation "Decade of Discord" Sectional tensions over slavery subside with the Compromise of 1850; resurface as western states seek territorial and then state status. Railroad expansion plans ignite bloodshed in Kansas and Missouri. Parties sectionalized; Whigs disappear, Republicans emerge. Lincoln-Douglas debates foreshadow future Harper's Ferry Raid convinces South they'll never be safe in the Union. Election of 1860 divides country; Abraham Lincoln wins ballot.G
1:30 pm
Unfinished Nation "House Divided" Election of Abraham Lincoln spawns secession of seven states led by South Carolina. Confederate States form provisional government before Lincoln is inaugurated, take over two southern forts. Neither side believes there will be war, but attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces signals beginning of conflict. Both sides mobilize quickly. Union has material advantage; Confederates win early battles. Lincoln and Union generals want to minimize damage to South so they can come back into Union. Influence of border states. Confiscation Acts address problem of captured and runaway slaves. War becomes harder with no end in sight.G
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Biography of America, A "Capital and Labor" The making of money pits laborers against the forces of capital as the twentieth century opens. Professor Miller introduces the miner as the quintessential laborer of the period -- working under grinding conditions, organizing into unions, and making a stand against the reigning money man of the day, J. Pierpont Morgan. D
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Biography of America, A "Tr and Wilson" Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- the Warrior and the Minister -- in the first decades of the twentieth century. Professor Miller discusses American socialism, Eugene Debs, international communism, and the roots of the Cold War with Professor Brinkley. D
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Curiosity Quest "Salmon Hatchery" Join Joel and the Curiosity Quest crew as they venture to beautiful Alaska to learn all about Salmon. Get all the answers to your burning questions about this amazing species of fish. D
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Biz Kid$ "Your First Big Purchase" You'll want to understand the important steps to take before your first big purchase, whether you're buying the latest computer, a new smart phone, or a car. You will learn about budgeting, researching, negotiating, and more. Find out how a teen photographer upgraded his camera and a 15-year-old aviator purchased an old airplane!. D
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The Electric Company "The Great Compromise" The Electric Company and the Pranksters have to work together to preserve their ability to use their special powers in the neighborhood. D
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Cyberchase "Send in the Clones" The kids use multiplication to keep track of all the Delete clones that are taking over cybersite..G
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Lidia's Italy In America "St. Louis: Macaroni & Cheese: An American Favorite, Inspired by Italy" NULL
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Icebox Desserts" Bridget uncovers the secrets to perfect Lemon Icebox Cheesecake. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of chocolate ice cream. And finally, Erin updates a lost recipe and shows Chris how to make French Silk Chocolate Pie. D
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Barbecue University with Steven Raichlen "On The Lamb" Steve fixes lamb on the rod with mini sweet peppers. He also serves double-digit thick lamb chops and lamb steaks with parsley onion relish and feta cheese sauce.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Iran:Tehran and Side Trips" Rick visits Tehran and a small village for a look at some of civilization's important historical sites and a sense of Iran's 21st-century culture.G
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Travelscope "The Colors of Malaysia" Joseph takes part in the Colors of Malaysia Festival that spotlights the different states and people of the country through music, song, dance and costumes.G
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Icebox Desserts" Bridget uncovers the secrets to perfect Lemon Icebox Cheesecake. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of chocolate ice cream. And finally, Erin updates a lost recipe and shows Chris how to make French Silk Chocolate Pie. D
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American Airlines Making Life Worse For Most Loyal Customers By Killing Useful Mile-Tracking Browser Plugin
from the lame dept
And American Airlines didn't like it.
It couldn't use the "security" argument this time, because everything was local. But, actually, it tried to use that same argument anyway, responding to a question from BoardingArea, saying that it shut down Award Wallet to maintain the company's...
...…long-held stance on how third-party websites access proprietary AAdvantage member details… Because travelers' AAdvantage account numbers and passwords can be used to claim AAdvantage mileage awards out of their accounts and access personal details, American will always protect this information.But that falsely assumes that the browser plugin is a "website." It's possible that American is just confused... but the more likely situation is that American Airlines is still just worried about controlling the customer, rather than making sure they have the best experience for them. What services like Award Wallet do is make American's frequent flyer program more valuable to consumers, but apparently American doesn't want that if it means having less control.
We simply cannot permit websites that have not satisfied our security requirements the access needed to track AAdvantage balances or any other function that is otherwise secured behind AA.com login credentials.


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The First Analysis Of The Web: Vague, But Exciting
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In providing a system for manipulating this sort of information, the hope would be to allow a pool of information to develop which could grow and evolve with the organisation and the projects it describes. For this to be possible, the method of storage must not place its own restraints on the information. This is why a "web" of notes with links (like references) between them is far more useful than a fixed hierarchical system. When describing a complex system, many people resort to diagrams with circles and arrows. Circles and arrows leave one free to describe the interrelationships between things in a way that tables, for example, do not. The system we need is like a diagram of circles and arrows, where circles and arrows can stand for anything.But perhaps even cooler, as pointed out to us by Mathew Ingram, is an image of the actual physical copy of the first version of this proposal that Berners-Lee gave his boss, Mike Sendall. At the top of the cover Sendall scribbled, "Vague, but exciting."
We can call the circles nodes, and the arrows links. Suppose each node is like a small note, summary article, or comment. I'm not over concerned here with whether it has text or graphics or both. Ideally, it represents or describes one particular person or object


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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - The MIT field hockey team won a pair of games over the weekend to win the Betty Richey Tournament hosted by Vassar College and improve its ledger to 7-0, the best start in program history. The seven-game win streak is one short of the Institute record, set during a 13-3 campaign in 1995. The Engineers opened the weekend with a 3-2 win over Manhattanville on Saturday and followed that up by besting the host Brewers by the same score Sunday to capture the tournament title for the first time.
On Sunday, Tech scored all of its three goals in a nine minute
span of the opening period and held off a furious effort by Vassar
for a 3-2 championship victory in the 21st edition of the
tournament. All of MIT's offense, which proved enough, came in the
first half. The Engineers got two first half goals from freshman
Kimberly Barker, who was named the Tournament MVP and a third goal
by junior Danielle Smith. Those goals were clumped together,
beginning at the 7:50 mark when Barker scored her first tally on a
breakaway following a long feed from the defensive third.
Barker's second tally, which was assisted by Smith, followed a rush toward goal. When Vassar goalie, Rachel Clarkin-Breslin, came out to stop the attack, Barker juked around her for the game's second goal at 14:28. Smith pushed the MIT lead to 3-0 slightly less than three minutes later with a goal in traffic in front of the cage.
The Brewers had two golden opportunities to stem that assault as senior forward Jennie McAllister had back-to-back shots snuffed by MIT's junior goalie Keri Dixon, who made five saves in the game, perhaps none bigger than those against McAllister. Playing her best game of the season, McAllister had four shots on goal.
With eight minutes left in the first half, Vassar solved Dixon's riddle. Freshman Rebecca Smith notched her first career goal, following up a deflected save, to cut the MIT lead to 3-1. Despite an aggressive second half, Vassar couldn't slice into the MIT lead until the game had ended, albeit on a foul. Sophomore Katy Hwang scored her second goal of the season following a penalty corner to a 3-2 finale.
Vassar's midfield game was relentless in the second half. The Engineers didn't produce a single shot on goal, but the Brewers could only muster two shots. Until the last play, neither team had a shot on cage for the final 25 minutes.
On Saturday afternoon, MIT scored two goals in the first half
and held off a second half Manhattanville comeback to win 3-2 and
move on to the championship game.
The Engineers got goals from Anna Teruya and Kimberly Barker within the first 15 minutes of the first half and appeared in control, taking that 2-0 lead into halftime. The game was much more even in the second half, however, as Manhattanville out-shot MIT 8-2. The Valiants cut the lead to 2-1 on a goal by Jen Ascencio with 16:14 to play. MIT went ahead 3-1 on a goal by Kameron Klauber less than four minutes later, but Manhattanville again cut the lead to 3-2 on a goal by Kayla Meenan. MIT held off several Manhattanville threats in the final ten minutes to hold on for the win and stay undefeated.
In addition to Tournament MVP Barker, freshman midfielder Molly McShane, junior defenseman Alex Wright and goalie Dixon also received All-Tournament nods.
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Transparent bridges were first developed at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital) in the early 1980s. Digital submitted its work to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), which incorporated the work into the IEEE 802.1 standard. Transparent bridges are very popular in Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 networks. This article provides an overview of transparent bridging's handling of traffic and protocol components.
Transparent Bridging Operation
Transparent bridges are so named because their presence and operation are transparent to network hosts. When transparent bridges are powered on, they learn the workstation locations by analyzing the source address of incoming frames from all attached networks. For example, if a bridge sees a frame arrive on port 1 from Host A, the bridge concludes that Host A can be reached through the segment connected to port 1. Through this process, transparent bridges build a table (the learning process), such as the one in Figure: Transparent Bridges Build a Table That Determines a Host's Accessibility.
Figure: Transparent Bridges Build a Table That Determines a Host's Accessibility
The bridge uses its table as the basis for traffic forwarding. When a frame is received on one of the bridge's interfaces, the bridge looks up the frame's destination address in its internal table. If the table contains an association between the destination address and any of the bridge's ports aside from the one on which the frame was received, the frame is forwarded out the indicated port. If no association is found, the frame is flooded to all ports except the inbound port. Broadcasts and multicasts also are flooded in this way.
Transparent bridges successfully isolate intrasegment traffic, thereby reducing the traffic seen on each individual segment. This is called filtering and occurs when the source and destination MAC addresses reside on the same bridge interface. Filtering usually improves network response times, as seen by the user. The extent to which traffic is reduced and response times are improved depends on the volume of intersegment traffic relative to the total traffic, as well as the volume of broadcast and multicast traffic.
Bridging Loops
Without a bridge-to-bridge protocol, the transparent-bridge algorithm fails when multiple paths of bridges and local-area networks (LANs) exist between any two LANs in the internetwork. Figure: Bridging Loops Can Result in Inaccurate Forwarding and Learning in Transparent Bridging Environments illustrates such a bridging loop.
Suppose that Host A sends a frame to Host B. Both bridges receive the frame and correctly learn that Host A is on segment 2. Each bridge then forwards the frame onto segment 1. Unfortunately, not only will Host B receive two copies of the frame (once from bridge 1 and once from bridge 2), but each bridge now believes that Host A resides on the same segment as Host B. When Host B replies to Host A's frame, both bridges will receive and subsequently filter the replies because the bridge table will indicate that the destination (Host A) is on the same network segment as the frame's source.
Figure: Bridging Loops Can Result in Inaccurate Forwarding and Learning in Transparent Bridging Environments
In addition to basic connectivity problems, the proliferation of broadcast messages in networks with loops represents a potentially serious network problem. Referring again to Figure 23-2, assume that Host A's initial frame is a broadcast. Both bridges forward the frames endlessly, using all available network bandwidth and blocking the transmission of other packets on both segments.
A topology with loops, such as that shown in Figure 23-2, can be useful as well as potentially harmful. A loop implies the existence of multiple paths through the internetwork, and a network with multiple paths from source to destination can increase overall network fault tolerance through improved topological flexibility.
Spanning-Tree Algorithm
The spanning-tree algorithm (STA) was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation, a key Ethernet vendor, to preserve the benefits of loops while eliminating their problems. Digital's algorithm subsequently was revised by the IEEE 802 committee and was published in the IEEE 802.1d specification. The Digital algorithm and the IEEE 802.1d algorithm are not compatible.
The STA designates a loop-free subset of the network's topology by placing those bridge ports that, if active, would create loops into a standby (blocking) condition. Blocking bridge ports can be activated in the event of a primary link failure, providing a new path through the internetwork.
The STA uses a conclusion from graph theory as a basis for constructing a loop-free subset of the network's topology. Graph theory states the following:
For any connected graph consisting of nodes and edges connecting pairs of nodes, a spanning tree of edges maintains the connectivity of the graph but contains no loops.
Figure: STA-Based Bridges Use Designated and Root Ports to Eliminate Loops illustrates how the STA eliminates loops. The STA calls for each bridge to be assigned a unique identifier. Typically, this identifier is one of the bridge's Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, plus an administratively assigned priority. Each port in every bridge also is assigned a unique identifier (within that bridge), which is typically its own MAC address. Finally, each bridge port is associated with a path cost, which represents the cost of transmitting a frame onto a LAN through that port. In the following figure, path costs are noted on the lines emanating from each bridge. Path costs are usually defaulted but can be assigned manually by network administrators.
Figure: STA-Based Bridges Use Designated and Root Ports to Eliminate Loops
The first activity in spanning-tree computation is the selection of the root bridge, which is the bridge with the lowest-value bridge identifier. In this figure, the root bridge is Bridge 1. Next, the root port on all other bridges is determined. A bridge's root port is the port through which the root bridge can be reached with the least aggregate path cost, a value that is called the root path cost.
Finally, designated bridges and their designated ports are determined. A designated bridge is the bridge on each LAN that provides the minimum root path cost. A LAN's designated bridge is the only bridge allowed to forward frames to and from the LAN for which it is the designated bridge. A LAN's designated port is the port that connects it to the designated bridge.
In some cases, two or more bridges can have the same root path cost. In the above figure, for example, Bridges 4 and 5 can both reach Bridge 1 (the root bridge) with a path cost of 10. In this case, the bridge identifiers are used again, this time to determine the designated bridges. Bridge 4's LAN V port is selected over Bridge 5's LAN V port.
Using this process, all but one of the bridges directly connected to each LAN are eliminated, thereby removing all two-LAN loops. The STA also eliminates loops involving more than two LANs, while still preserving connectivity. Figure 23-4 shows the results of applying the STA to the network shown in the above figure.
Figure: A Loop-Free Tree Topology and an STA-Based Transparent-Bridge Network shows the tree topology more clearly. It also shows that the STA has placed both Bridge 3 and Bridge 5's ports to LAN V in standby mode.
Figure: A Loop-Free Tree Topology and an STA-Based Transparent-Bridge Network
The spanning-tree calculation occurs when the bridge is powered up and whenever a topology change is detected. The calculation requires communication between the spanning-tree bridges, which is accomplished through configuration messages (sometimes called bridge protocol data units, or BPDUs). Configuration messages contain information identifying the bridge that is presumed to be the root (root identifier) and the distance from the sending bridge to the root bridge (root path cost). Configuration messages also contain the bridge and port identifier of the sending bridge, as well as the age of information contained in the configuration message.
Bridges exchange configuration messages at regular intervals (typically 1 to 4 seconds). If a bridge fails (causing a topology change), neighboring bridges will detect the lack of configuration messages and will initiate a spanning-tree recalculation.
All transparent-bridge topology decisions are made locally by each bridge. Bridges exchange configuration messages with neighboring bridges, and no central authority exists to determine network topology or administration.
Frame Format
Transparent bridges exchange configuration messages and topology-change messages. Configuration messages are sent between bridges to establish a network topology. Topology-change messages are sent after a topology change has been detected to indicate that the STA should be rerun. This forces bridges to relearn the location of hosts because a host may originally have been accessed from port 1, although after the topology change it may be reached through port 2.
Figure: Twelve Fields Comprise the Transparent-Bridge Configuration Message illustrates the IEEE 802.1d configuration-message format.
Figure: Twelve Fields Comprise the Transparent-Bridge Configuration Message
The fields of the transparent bridge configuration message are as follows:
- Protocol Identifier - Contains the value zero.
- Version - Contains the value zero.
- Message Type - Contains the value zero.
- Flag - Contains 1 byte, of which only 2 bits are used. The topology-change (TC) least significant bit signals a topology change. The topology-change acknowledgment (TCA) most significant bit is set to acknowledge receipt of a configuration message with the TC bit set.
- Root ID - Identifies the root bridge by listing its 2-byte priority followed by its 6-byte ID.
- Root Path Cost - Contains the cost of the path from the bridge sending the configuration message to the root bridge.
- Bridge ID - Identifies the priority and ID of the bridge sending the message.
- Port ID - Identifies the port from which the configuration message was sent. This field allows loops created by multiple attached bridges to be detected and handled.
- Message Age - Specifies the amount of time since the root sent the configuration message on which the current configuration message is based.
- Maximum Age - Indicates when the current configuration message should be deleted.
- Hello Time - Provides the time period between root bridge configuration messages.
- Forward Delay - Provides the length of time that bridges should wait before transitioning to a new state after a topology change. If a bridge transitions too soon, not all network links might be ready to change their state, and loops can result.
Topology-change messages consist of only 4 bytes. These include a Protocol-Identifier field, which contains the value zero; a Version field, which contains the value zero; and a Message-Type field, which contains the value 128.
Review Questions
Q - What three frame types does a transparent bridge flood?
A - Transparent bridges flood unknown unicast frames (where the bridge has no entry in its table for the destination MAC address), broadcast frames, and mulitcast frames.
Q - How does a bridge learn the relative location of a workstation?
A - A bridge learns about the direction to send frames to reach a station by building a bridge table. The bridge builds the table by observing the source MAC address of each frame that it receives and associating that address with the received port.
Q - What two bridge PDUs does a transparent bridge generate, and what are they used for?
A - Transparent bridges create either a configuration PDU or a topology-change PDU. Configuration PDUs help bridges learn about the network topology so that loops may be eliminated. Topology-change PDUs enable bridges to relearn the network topology whenever a significant change occurs when a segment may no longer have connectivity or when a new loop is created.
Q - What is the difference between forwarding and flooding?
A - Bridges forward frames out a single interface whenever the bridge knows that the destination is on a different port than the source. On the other hand, bridges flood whenever the bridge does not know where the destination is located.
Q - After bridges determine the spanning-tree topology, they will take on various roles and configure ports into various modes. Specifically, the roles are root and designated bridges, and the modes are designated ports and root ports. If there are 10 bridges and 11 segments, how many of each are there in the broadcast domain?
A - There is one and only one root bridge in a broadcast domain, and all other bridges are designated bridges. Therefore, there is one root bridge and nine designated bridges. There must be one designated port for each segment, so there are ten. Each bridge, except the root, must have one and only one root port. Therefore there are nine root ports.
For More Information
Clark, Kennedy, and Kevin Hamilton. CCIE Professional Development: Cisco LAN Switching. Indianapolis: Cisco Press, 1999.
Perlman, Radia. Interconnections, Second Edition: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols. Boston: Addison Wesley, 1999.


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I bought the Ruby Shorts pattern a while ago with the intent to make them at the beginning of the summer… in any case, the weather forecast for this weekend in Pittsburgh is 91 degrees, so it's not over yet! Plus, I had a pair of shorts on my list for my 52 Weeks of Sewing project :-)
As for the pattern, oh Burdastyle, why why why? Perhaps I've been spoiled since childhood with Simplicity and McCall's precise and dumbed-down instructions, but would it really hurt you to adequately explain a welt pocket? Or how to sew the rest of the pattern for that matter? The instructions may as well have just read "sew all the pieces together." With that said, even without proper instructions they were straightforward to put together.
This pair is made of "Linen Look" fabric (I think that means something cheap and synthetic that looks like linen but doesn't wrinkle as much?). The only diversion I made from the actual pattern was to line it as well as to shorten the legs by about 2 inches. Next time I might cut it to a 38 instead of a 36 – I always forget that Burdastyle patterns actually run true to size.
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Aug 24, 2012, 07.23 AMby Käsekosmonautin
And summer´s not over as long as you can still wear dresses:http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/warmest-winter-dress
Nice shorts!
Aug 24, 2012, 07.20 AMby scuffsan
I love your shorts! The contrast hem is that little extra detail that makes them more interesting than other sailor shorts. And yes, burda instructions do suck. That is the main reason I hardly ever bother to make anythinh from their patterns. Even if i cen figure it out myself I like instructions here and there.
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Julia, your shorts look great and you have made them so well. I do like the white trim on the leg hem and the buttons down the side. I have to agree with you about Burda instructions; sometimes they leave out all the important stuff, assuming you already know everything about sewing. I have been sewing for over 40 years and I do not know everything about sewing, so I would still like help, especially as we all pay for the pattern and the instructions!!! I hope you continue to have some lovely warm weather so you can enjoy wearing your shorts a bit longer.
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by misac » Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:57 pm
At first I didn't like the characterization of Nova but since it's not Rich I didn't mind afterward.
by misac » Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:58 pm
Yeah, at least they didn't do the origin again.
by misac » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:02 pm
It was very humorous but I don't think it hurt the show. Reminded me of Teen Titans, it was also very fun and light but it still had some great action.
I didn't like Spidey/Peter's voice leading up to the show in the previews and stuff, very hammy, but it wasn't like that at all on the show. Still not great but I liked it overall.
JJJ and Fury were great!
by misac » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:03 pm
Both of them were very funny.
Rick Jones sounded like one of the Animaniacs!
by misac » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:11 pm
And he didn't tell them, what a dick!
It was a great first outing for Dr. Doom. He handed the Avengers and the FF their asses and he knew about Sue being a Skrull. And then he just lets them leave at the end, just awesome!
by misac » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:14 pm
I didn't mind it really. They're spies, it makes sense they do shit like this.
Just as long as they don't have teen villains going to the school too. It was really hard to suspend disbelief when X-men Evolution did that.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:11 pmOk so week two into Marvels new cartoons on Disney XD and I have to say this weeks episodes were not as impressive as last weeks debuts.
Ultimate Spider-Man was again really fun but there was almost just too much silliness and not enough seriousness for me. My son still loves the show, especially Nova, he thinks he is really cool. You can tell from this episode that this series is aimed much more at the younger audience which is good because it is definitely hitting it's mark from my sons reaction.
Avengers EMH was just kinda meh to me today, nothing extremely exciting or cool really happened. Skrull Cap getting a hold of all the Stark Tech info was about the biggest thing that happened and thats only because we all no thats where the story is going. Seeing War Machine was cool because I have always liked that armor better than any suit Tony has ever worn. I absolutely hated the intro of the energy shield for Cap, it's stupid and something that I will never care for at all.
The segments where they showed the guys building their own shield and Joe Q drawing Thor were pretty cool, I like those things. Again the Mash Ups at the end were pretty funny, reminds me of the good old days of Adult Swim win they had actual funny shows like Sea Lab 2021.
by sdsichero » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:13 pmhttp://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/42534/toonzone-news-interviews-jeph-loeb-marvels-head-of-television/
Most of the interview with Loeb was about Hulk Agents of SMASH, but this part made me say "hrrrmmm" (with a little dread)
by Dragavon » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:17 pm
So he killed Spectacular for Ultimate and now he's going to kill Avengers?
by sdsichero » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:26 pm
One of the reason's I'm feeling dread
by habitual » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:45 pmI think there is very little chance of anything happening to this show.
Disney has dedicated a whole 2 hour programming block plus 5-6 valuable ad minutes to making Joe Q. as famous as Stan (if that's even possible).
You're about to see 2-3 months of cross-branding at it's finest.
by sdsichero » Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:49 pm
I hope you're right. This is the first good Avengers cartoon series...
by Greg » Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:58 am
He plans to. Past half way through the season, apparently the show is going to focus mostly on Cap, Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor and push the other characters more so in the background. He felt the first season had too much focus on the other Avengers and not enough on the big sellers by themselves. Despite that each character got their own focus and the other characters becoming fan favorites.
by IvCNuB4 » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:21 am
Agree 100%. I think this Avengers episode fell flat compared to last week's.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:48 amAnother great Sunday morning of Marvel cartoons!
Ultimate Spider-Man was really good today, had a new interesting and entertaining origin for Venom which was nice. The fight scenes between Venom and Spider-Man were very well animated I thought. There was still a lot of the silliness in this episode but overall it was very entertaining.
Avengers was much better this week than last week for sure. I liked all the fights with the Masters of Evil and finally seeing Thor was really cool. Seems like there is going to be a lot of stuff going on this season, with the Registration Act, the Skrull Invasion, and now Surtur, the Avengers are gonna have their hands full! I hope they are not trying to pack to many stories into one season though, as that could have a poor effect overall if not handled correctly.
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