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Here's a position-by-position look at how USC could allocate those empty spots, with a projection of how many players at each position the Trojans will try to sign:
Offensive line: 6
The Trojans hold five commitments on the offensive line, two of those from mid-year enrollees who already have signed financial aid agreements. They might not be done, though, as a big fish is still out there and possibly leaning toward signing with his childhood favorite. If the coaching staff decides a scholarship would be more important at another position, the Trojans might have to part ways with a prospect from this bunch.


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U.S. Women's National Team head coach PIA SUNDHAGE
On enjoying the moment with the U.S. WNT:
"This is a great team and we do good things. The fact that they gave me a guitar with their autographs, that was just huge. I'm very happy and it's very emotional."
On trying to take in the last couple games left in her tenure as head coach:
"They have made me a better coach. I've been around this team for five years and it feels phenomenal, it's like a dream. It's cool."
On why she's leaving the U.S. Women's National Team:
"I've been away from home for five years and before this I was in China, so it's been six years and it'll be good to go home. Sweden is hosting the European Championship so that is a big challenge. I'm going for that and we'll see how it works."
On the evolution of women's soccer in the U.S.:
"It's a unique opportunity to continue to do something for women's soccer and let the girls continue to dream about being professional players. I hope that a professional league will come back in one way or another. It has to be in the right way so you actually develop the players. Hopefully, that'll happen."
On what the Fan Tribute Tour games are like for her as head coach:
"A game is a game – it doesn't matter where it is or when it is – a game is a game. That's my passion. Now, it's different to play the final at Wembley or just a game on the victory tour, but I respect the game so much that it's exciting. That's the word: exciting. If you look at the first half, not so much, but then they turned it around and they came back and that's typical for this team – coming back and never giving up.
On the first half performance against Australia:
"You have a little bit of luck, but I would also say that it turned around and the fact that we created chances near the end of the first half, we gained some confidence. I understand it's hot out there. I said at halftime that speed of play doesn't mean you have to run more, but you have to make a quicker decision. I think they did, with the subs and everything, they did well. I'm so proud of them."
On the state of the National Team roster as she leaves as opposed to what it was like when she was hired:
"It's different. We have some different players. You have Tobin Heath and Lauren Cheney, they were in China in 2008. Tobin didn't play that much, she didn't play in the World Cup that much, and then she played the whole game and played a big part in the gold medal (this year). Compare that to Alex Morgan. Just a year ago, she was sitting on the bench and waiting for her turn. Here she is now scoring goals and playing a big part. The next step for this team is if you find technical players and players that read the game well, you can decide how you want to play because you do have the speed and the strength."
U.S. defender CHRISTIE RAMPONE
On playing out the last few games of Pia Sundhage's stint as head coach:
"Just trying to enjoy it. It's definitely sad and she's done so much for this team and has brought so much passion. It's going to be a tough time, but we want to celebrate it and do the best we can. We felt this was more of a home for her to give her that guitar and try to give her the best give we could. She's given us two gold medals. We gave her a great guitar. Taylor donated it and it looks great, so it was something to send her off in the right way."
On playing these WNT Fan Tribute Tour matches:
"We had such a great run in the Olympics and we want to thank all the fans out here for supporting us. We're trying to put on the best show that we can and showing that we can have great moments of soccer, smile out there and have fun and sign autographs. Just have more connection with the fans."
On how Pia Sundhage made her a better player:
"She made me a tremendous player by her knowledge of the game and the way we breakdown film and have open communication in meeting sessions and seeing everyone's viewpoint of the game and not just her viewpoint. It has made me look at the game in a different way and I love it even more."
On the future of the U.S. WNT and the search for a new coach:
"It's difficult, especially when you're celebrating something and losing your coach. That's up for U.S. Soccer right now to figure out who the next coach is going to be. Everyone doesn't know what the future holds so we're enjoying this moment now as a team because come January, the coach will call in who they want and some of these girls, myself included, might not be on the team."
On the match overall:
"We came in yesterday. I think we were a little slow. Our fitness isn't there. We're trying to make the ball do more movement than ourselves. I think Australia dropped off a little in their fitness and it opened up some space for us. You're going to see a more attacking presence and less defensive because it is a victory tour and we want to score goals so we want to score goals. We probably aren't as sharp as we'd like to be defensively, but that's part of it."
U.S. forward ABBY WAMBACH
On Pia Sundhage leaving the U.S. WNT:
"It's a lot more emotional in terms of feeling sad for her leaving us, but she's moving on to different things and we all wish her the best second place (finishes) for the rest of her career."
On how the team has grown since Sundhage took over as coach:
"We've definitely grown as a team, we're a better team than when she first got here. I hope that's the same case for the next coach that comes in and takes over as our leader."
On the match overall:
"I think our subs did a fantastic job for us. I think that Heather O'Reilly and Shannon Boxx changed the game. Shannon just has a knack for winning balls and spraying it wide, which is what we needed to do in the first half. I think our tempo and speed of play in the second half was much faster and I think Australia suffered from a little fatigue in the second half."
On her future as a player:
"We're trying to wait and see. We're in a holding pattern in terms of deciding what our fate will be. I know that this team is going to make big strides. We'll see who the coach is and a lot is up to that next person. Who knows what kind of team they're going to want to take into the future and hopefully I'll be a part of it."
U.S. midfielder SHANNON BOXX
On the match overall:
"We were keeping good possession in the first half, but we needed to be a little bit faster. For me, coming in my role is more defensive and get those hard tackles. That's how I motivate players and motivate my team. I got into a couple good tackles at the beginning and motivated myself to go a little bit faster. We had Heather O'Reilly on the outside taking players on and I think that changes it. Once you see one player doing it, the next one is going to do it. In the second half you saw the whole team kind of raise the level a little bit because we want to win."
On how Pia Sundhage improved her as a player:
"For me, just the confidence she gave me. She didn't have to come up to me every day and say this is what I want you to do. You just knew she had confidence in you when she put you in. The passion she gave us rubbed off on us. You could tell in practice, we were cheering more for each other and we were more motivated to win. She brought that flair, she brought that offensive side. She picked players like Tobin and Rapinoe and worked on the offensive side. I think she made our team a better, well-rounded team."
U.S. forward ALEX MORGAN
On playing in front of family near her hometown of Diamond Bar, Calif.:
"I had a whole section of my friends and family. I bought a lot of extra tickets for them to come see me play. This was my first time playing at The Home Depot Center and we got the biggest crowd here that we've ever gotten and we're excited to continue this Fan Tribute Tour."
On improving in the second half after going down 1-0:
"We still had the confidence and we wanted to continue to have fun. We wanted to give back to our fans and give back to Pia in her last couple of games. We just wanted to have fun out there and not stress ourselves out at all. The players off the bench made a huge difference today."
On the match overall:
"I think that the players that came off the bench really had a lot of energy. They kept the ball a lot more, we had a lot more possession and were more composed on the ball. Resting and trying to get our bodies back to 100 percent, we all haven't been together in two weeks and we've been taking some more time off from the field, so we were a little rusty in the first half."
U.S. forward AMY RODRIGUEZ
On playing in her home state:
"Today was a lot of fun especially playing in front of a big LA crowd after coming off such a hot Olympics."
On playing in the WNT Fan Tribute Tour:
"It's such an amazing atmosphere to play in front of this big crowd. It's motivating for us out there on the field. We're just excited about all the enthusiasm that's going on out here."


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Starke County Circuit Court Judge Kim Hall sentenced Jennie Carter to six months in the Indiana Department of Corrections, six months of house arrest, six months probation, and a $2500 fine.
Carter, who served in an administrative capacity for Starke County Tourism, was found guilty of theft, a Class D felony, in Starke County Circuit Court Monday, Feb. 25. The charge stemmed from a $7,748.60 check Carter wrote in 2011 on the Starke County Tourism account and used the funds for personal expenses.
Carter also served as the Coordinator of Drug & Tobacco Free Starke County, a position she maintained after she was charged.
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Norma Patterson:
A Preliminary Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
|Patterson, Norma
|Norma Patterson Papers 1915-1967, bulk 1933-1952
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|11 boxes (4.62 linear feet)
|The collection includes Patterson's novels, published and unpublished short stories, correspondence with agents, editors, and publishers, scrapbooks, handwritten notebooks, and talks before a variety of audiences.
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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
|The papers of Texas author Norma Patterson span a writing career of six decades and include her best selling romance novels published in the United States and Britain, as well as short stories published in newspapers and magazines worldwide. Patterson's novels are present, as are published and unpublished short stories, correspondence, scrapbooks, and talks before a variety of audiences.
|The collection is organized in three series: Series I. Works, Series II. Correspondence, and Series II. Career-Related.
|The works in Series I. are arranged in four subseries: A. Novels, B. Short Stories, C. Other Writings, and D. Unpublished Works. Both handwritten notes and typescripts are present for the novels, published in the 1930s and 1940s, some serialized in magazines. Patterson's numerous short stories appeared in magazines and newspapers published in the United States, and also England, Canada, Australia, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. She was frequently published in McCall's, Today's Housewife, Good Housekeeping, People's Home Journal and Britain's Woman's Journal. Beginning as early as the 1910s, her stories continued to be published into the 1960s. Patterson's other writings in Subseries C include a series of letters published during the war for London's Woman's Journal. Other journalism, including editorials and essays, is also present. Unpublished works in Subseries D include handwritten notebooks, a novel, and short stories.
|Series II consists primarily of correspondence with agents, editors, and publishers regarding her novels and short stories. Also present are inquiries from motion picture companies expressing interest in film versions of her novels. Correspondents include W. F. Bigelow, John Farrar, Margaret Foley, Frankie McKee, Nancy Pearn, George Sessions Perry, Laurence Pollinger, Murray Pollinger, Stanley Rinehart, Constance Smith, and Rowe Wright.
|The career-related material in Series III contains a small amount of biographical material for dust jacket copy, scrapbooks of publicity and reviews, and talks to student and women's club groups, as well as radio interviews.
|The papers contain brittle material that should be handled with care. Otherwise, the collection is in good condition and is open for research. Copies of Patterson's novels received with the papers have been transferred to the HRC Library.


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I-affection or Umlaut is a phonological phenomenon which is an integral part of the Sindarin language.
The phenomenon refers to the vowels of a word to be 'slid' to another vowel, usually e, drawn because of a following i (usually near the end of the word). This started to occur after the stage called "Old Sindarin".
Umlaut has a grammatical significance in Sindarin since it is how plural of nouns is formed.
The following verbs show how the vowels of the word-stems slid into e because of the affection of i.
- gonod "count" + -ia > genedia "to reckon"
- aglar "glory" + -ia > egleria "to praise"
- said "private" + -ia > seidia- "to set aside"[1]
- See also: Sindarin#Pluralization
The Primitive Quendian plural ending -ī was retained in Quenya and Old Sindarin. In the later stages the *-i affected the previous vowels, especially the preceding one[2]
Then, all final vowels were apocoped in Sindarin, including the plural markers. All traced of plural were simply the affected vowels.
To summarize this, the envisioned history of word adar pl. edair would be like this:
- OS *atari "fathers" > *edeiri > *edeir > edair
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The Harvard men's and women's diving teams will send representatives to the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, hosted by Rutgers University March 12-14.
The Participants
Harvard will send a total of four divers to the meet. Freshman Michael Stanton, who captured the one and three-meter diving titles at the Ivy Championships and earned Diver of the Meet accolades, will be the lone representative for the men's team in New Jersey. Junior Jenny Reese, sophomore Leslie Rea and freshman Brittany Powell will represent the women's diving squad. Reese fronted a strong Crimson effort at the Ivy Championships, taking third in the one meter event and fourth in the three meter while Rea was close behind with fourth and fifth-place results in the two competitions. Powell finished eighth in the three-meter event and 14th in the one meter competition.
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|Self-Employment Tax Policy Considerations
New business practices and concerns about Social Security funding and the tax gap likely warrant a review by lawmakers of the rules and underlying policies of the self-employment tax.
June 10, 2010
In March 2010, healthcare reform included an increased Medicare tax for high-income employees and self-employed individuals (IRC §3101(b)(2) and §1401(b)(2)) and a new unearned income Medicare contribution tax for high-income individuals (IRC §1411). Also in 2010, a "loophole closer" proposal called for self-employment tax on earnings of certain S corporation shareholders (H.R. 4213).
What do these changes and proposals do to longstanding concerns and proposals regarding the application of employment taxes to S corporations and their shareholder/employees? What tax treatment is appropriate for current business structures, choice of entity considerations and neutrality among different business forms? What strategies should be implemented to reduce the self-employment tax gap?
In addition, new technologies and ways of generating income can raise self-employment tax questions. This article notes some of the issues surrounding self-employment tax to highlight that a more in-depth discussion is warranted rather than piecemeal changes that may further increase inequities among different business forms and types of revenue.
Choice of Entity and Self-Employment Tax
Soon after enactment of subchapter S corporation rules in 1958, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Ruling 59-221 to answer the question of whether self-employment tax applied to a shareholder's distributive share of S corporation income. The IRS concluded that such income was not subject to self-employment tax. Thus, only wages paid to shareholders are subject to employment taxes. This makes reasonable compensation determinations for S corporation shareholder/employees one that tax advisers and the IRS continually grapple with.
In contrast, sole proprietors owe self-employment tax on their business profits and general partners owe self-employment tax on their distributive share of trade or business income (IRC §1402(a)). In 2005, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) compared the employment tax rules for S corporations and sole proprietors, stating that the "different tax treatment has caused the S corporation form of ownership to become a multibillion dollar employment tax loophole for single-shareholder businesses" (May 25, 2005 testimony (PDF) before the Senate Finance Committee).
TIGTA's 2005 report suggests that Revenue Ruling 59-221 may have been predicated on the assumption that S corporations would have multiple shareholders that would help ensure that reasonable compensation was paid to shareholder/employees. TIGTA notes, however, that in 2000, almost 80 percent of S corporations had either a single shareholder or one shareholder owned over 50 percent of the stock. In addition, between 1994 and 2001, the number of single owner S corporations increased 64 percent. Also, in 1994, sole shareholders had compensation equal to 47 percent of profits, but that percentage dropped to 42 percent in 2001.
A variety of proposals have been offered to eliminate or reduce the "loophole" described by TIGTA. Most recently, H.R. 4213 (111th Congress), would expand the definition of self-employment income to include the distributive share of S corporation income from certain professional services businesses. New IRC §1402(m) would apply to S corporations where substantially all of the business activities involve providing services in the fields of health, law, lobbying, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, investment advice or management or brokerage services. In addition, the S corporation must be either a partner in a partnership engaged in a professional service business or itself engaged in such a business where its principal asset is the reputation and skill of three or fewer employees.
The H.R. 4213 proposal is awkward in its wording and design, referring to "disqualified S corporations," creating new issues of determining which employees constitute the reputation and skill of the business and enabling shareholders to possibly avoid the rule by having at least four employees provide services. In addition, the proposal does not address the concern of TIGTA and others because shareholder/employees of S corporations not subject to the proposed professional service rule would continue to enjoy employment tax savings relative to sole proprietors and general partners. (See H.R. 4213 (§413) and Joint Committee on Taxation report JCX-29-10 (pages 288 to 294) for further information.)
Other proposals have been broader such as treating S corporation shareholders and limited partners similar to general partners in terms of computing self-employment tax. For example, in 2005, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) proposed that all partners, limited liability company (LLC) owners and S corporation shareholders be subject to self-employment tax on their distributive share of entity income or loss (other than certain rental income, certain gains, dividends and interest). An owner who does not materially participate in the entity's trade or business, would treat only his reasonable compensation from the entity as subject to self-employment tax.
The JCT justified this proposal as one that enables the base for employment and self-employment taxes to be labor income. The JCT's rationale for broadening the application of self-employment tax to limited partners was state law changes which allowed these partners to perform services. (See JCS-02-05 (January 27, 2005), pages 95-105.)
Tax Gap
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that for 2003 and 2004, inadequate compensation issues for S corporations resulted in about $24 billion of missing wages and about $3 billion of lost payroll taxes.(Tax Gap: Actions Needed to Address Noncompliance With S Corporation Tax Rules (GAO-10-195; December 15, 2009), page 25.)
Sole proprietors also contribute to the self-employment tax gap. The IRS estimates that $39 billion of the annual $345 billion tax gap (11%) represents self-employment tax. (IRS, Tax Year 2001 Federal Tax Gap (PDF).)
New Revenue Generating Techniques
The Internet has led to a variety of money-generating activities, some of which may raise the question of whether the activity is a trade or business and whether self-employment taxes should apply. For example, some individuals have personal websites with ads that generate revenue with little activity required of the website owner. Should such income (assuming it exceeds $400 for the year) be subject to self-employment tax? Should an exclusion for such passive income be added to §1402 or should this be treated as a new way to generate trade or business income? Could such income be viewed as similar to revenue from prizes from entering contests and not subject to self-employment tax per Revenue Ruling 55-258?
Looking Forward
Changes — such as those made to Medicare taxes by the recently enacted healthcare reform legislation — that serve primarily to generate revenue, tend to complicate the law, create inequities and miss opportunities to improve the law. A review of employment taxes as applied to each type of business entity would be a better approach for identifying appropriate tax law changes. Such a review should also look at related differences, such as in the treatment of fringe benefits provided to owners, as these differences impact the amount of employment taxes owed. A review should focus on changes that would enable the application of employment taxes to different forms of business to meet the principles of good tax policy including equity and neutrality.
In addition, while Congress has enacted provisions to reduce the tax gap, such as requiring basis reporting and issuance of 1099s to corporations, such measures are not addressing larger parts of the tax gap attributable to sole proprietors. Efforts are needed to find workable techniques to reduce the income and self-employment tax gap for this group.
Finally, new ways of doing business could also be addressed as well so that the self-employment tax rules can be updated to reduce uncertainty and improve compliance.
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Annette Nellen, CPA, Esq., is a tax professor and director of the MST Program at San José State University. Nellen is an active member of the tax sections of the ABA and AICPA. She serves on the AICPA's Individual Income Taxation Technical Resource Panel. She has several reports on tax reform and a blog.


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Monday, March 18, 2013
My Hopes, Dreams, Rainbows and Unicorns for RootsTech 2013
1. Try not to get food poisoning this time. Yeah, it was bad last year. I missed a part of the APG Professional Management Conference. I bought out all the ginger ale in the hotel store and generally tried not to hurl in front of my friends all week. Good times.
2. Get an education on British genealogy resources. I'm a whole lotta French and German, so that's what I tend to research. However, I have a project that requires me to research an English line and I need to get my bearings as soon as possible. If I think you have knowledge of Cornwall (especially Tintagel) I will pester you for assistance.
3. Get my book editing questions answered. I have another project in the pipeline and I think I need an editor for this one. I'm going to seek out Biff and Nancy Barnes at the Stories to Tell booth and get their advice.
4. Work through my FHL list. In the days leading up to RootsTech, I've made a list of all the books and films I want to view at the Family History Library. The list is pages long and includes two projects for others. I want to do at least a couple hours of research for my own family tree, too. I have half of Tuesday and all of Wednesday to make it happen.
5. Learn something new in some sessions. This could take some effort. There are a lot more beginner classes this year. While that is great to get more genealogists tech savvy, it points out that the intermediate offerings are fewer in number and the advanced options are even smaller. I'll probably stalk Curt Witcher and Josh Taylor from the audience, as they preach the same things I believe.
6. Be a good Official Blogger. The kind folks at FamilySearch were generous enough to make me a special snowflake. In return, I will try to cover the conference as best I can for those at home.
7. Find out the latest on FamilySearch Family Tree. One of my projects is heavily dependent on this new-ish and slowly developing tool. I need a timeline for adding photos and documents. I need to fill in the gap between what LDS members see and what I see. I need to be assured that this is the best choice for my project.
8. Network like a crazy person. Someone at FGS 2012 said to me, "Every time I see you, you're in the hotel bar." The backhanded inference was not lost on me, but what that person didn't realize is that the hotel bar is the best place to get genealogy industry news, gossip, and more. It's also a great place to meet other professionals, set up a potential subcontracting network, and generally have fun after a long conference day. I will be at the conference hotel bar this time, and I don't care what you infer from that.
9. Do 5 new things. I will attend a new event (the Mormon Tabernacle Choir mini concert). I will learn about a new product. I will meet a new person. I will try a new restaurant. I will attend a session in a subject about which I know nothing.
10. I will have fun.
If you're at RootsTech, come find me and say hi. With the exception of Wednesday night, I'm free for all meals. Message me on Twitter at @acoffin, or just yell my name around the Salt Palace if you want to meet up.
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How long did you say you were staying, Amy? You've lots to do - I'll be concentrating on your item 10.ReplyDelete
I'll see you in the bar.Replies
I arrive on Tuesday afternoon and leave very early on Sunday. You bet I will see you at the bar. Looking forward to it.Delete
You have a lot to do there! I'm taking notes for what to do during the FGS conference, assuming I can get there. I can do #5 -- want to learn more about DNA. But I can't "set up a potential subcontracting network" because I'm not a professional. But I'm trying mostly for #10. Have fun and meet people.ReplyDelete
I'm sure you will have a fantastic time. Reading your tweets so far . . . it's all working!Replies
Mariann, you don't need to be a professional to have a network. It's good to know genealogists in other places so you can ask them questions and such. Everyone needs a genealogy network! :)Delete
A fine list Amy. Looking forward to hearing the outcomes.ReplyDelete


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Before we can start lets cover the basics. What's a program? What is programming? you may ask. Well that is simple, a program is a sequence of instructions a computer can understand. Why are you doing this? Being a programmer isn't that easy so I decided to start writing this docs as I learn in a hope someone will find it useful. What do I need? You will need a compiler and, if you please, an IDE. This isn't cover in this book, however, you must learn to use whatever you choose.
Our first program
Create a new C++ file and call it "first.cpp". Now type (DON'T COPY!), compile, and run the following C++ code:
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
string first, last;
if(argc < 3)
cout << "Enter your first name: ";
cin >> first;
cout << "Enter your last name: ";
cin >> last;
first = argv[1], last = argv[2];
cout << "Hello " << last << ", " << first << "!";
return 0;
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
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using namespace std;
Namespaces are like folders. The instruction using tells that we will be referring to the namespace std until we say otherwise. std refers to standard thats the namespace where all our basic functions / objects reside.
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int main(int argc, char *argv[])
In here we are declaring a function called main. In C++(and many other compiled languages) main is special since it is where the program will start. In C++ we get some variables by default, int argc and char *argv[]. The first one contains the number an arguments the program received upon runtime. argv[] is the array of arguments. By default we get 1 which is the location the program is run from. EX(*NIX and Windows):
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Soon, the proverbial apple to for the teacher may be a thing of the past. In fact, the actual teacher may also be a thing of the past, at least in the traditional sense of the word. A new pilot program in South Korea has done away with the pesky human bodies that have traditionally been associated with the title of teacher, and replaced them with fatter versions of R2-D2 that look as if they have swallowed a Caucasian woman.
The Engkey robots are the first step in what may be the wave of the future when it comes to teaching. In schools across the southeastern city of Daegu, South Korea, 29 of the robots have usurped the position of their human overlords, and are currently teaching South Korean children the English language.
The robots stand at 3.3 feet high, and each feature a TV displaying the facsimile of a Caucasian woman. Behind the face, the robot is actually being controlled remotely by teachers in the Philippines who can see and hear the students. When the teachers react, their facial expressions are then represented by the robot's digital face.
"Well-educated, experienced Filipino teachers are far cheaper than their counterparts elsewhere, including South Korea," Sangong Seong-Dae, a senior scientist at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology–the group responsible for developing the robots–told the Associated Foreign Press.
According to Physorg.com, the robots speak English to the students, read books to them, and dance to music by moving their robotic head and arms, something the children enjoy, apparently.
"The kids seemed to love it since the robots look, well, cute and interesting. But some adults also expressed interest, saying they may feel less nervous talking to robots than a real person," Kim Mi-Young, an official at Daegu city education office said.
Kim claimed that one of the primary reasons for the robotic teachers would be to send the teacher-bots (our word, not theirs) to rural areas of Korea where English speaking teachers are rare, and most are unwilling to relocate. The robots are still in the testing phase, but Korean officials have already shown interest and claim that if the controls are streamlined and the costs are lowered, many robots might go on the payroll, so to speak.
"Having robots in the classroom makes the students more active in participating, especially shy ones afraid of speaking out to human teachers," Kim told the AFP.
Kim also stressed that the robots would not be considered as a replacement for teacher, just as an addition to them. At least until the next time a teacher demands a raise…
So far the four month experiment, which was sponsored by the government, has cost around $1.37 million. The current English teacher-bots have also been used to teach math, science and other subjects at different levels. The report claims that each robot costs around $10 million won, or roughly $8,750. No word yet on who will pay for years of therapy after a generation of maladjusted Korean children who were raised by automatons reaches maturity.
Please feel free to insert your own jokes below. They may range from American version of these robots packing chainsaws in unruly high schools, to the fun filled years of damage that children may face when much of their day is spent taking orders from a robot.
Editors' Recommendations
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Slades from Hemel Hempstead and Chipperfield, Herts, Eng
My husband's family goes back to a James Slade, 1807, of possibly Chipperfield. Line below:
James SLADE, b ca 1807
m. 29 Nov 1832 atSt. Mary, Hardwick cum Weedon, Buckinghamshire, England to Hannah HONOUR, b 13 Jul 1806 at Hardwick, Buckingham, England, as second wife
son George SLADE, b 15 Feb 1844 at Chipperfield, Hertford, England, Bapt 7 Apr 1844
m. ca 1866 at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England to Jane Emma KINGHAM, b 16 Jun 1843 at Abbotts Langley, Hertford, England
Brought family, including son below to USA on the SS Erin, London, England to New York, 11 July 1883
son Melbourne George SLADE, I, b 09 Sep 1871 at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, England
m. ca 1916 (second marriage for both) in California, USA, to Frances Angelina BONILLA, b 16 Jun 1892 at Pleasanton, Alameda,CA USA
son Melbourne George SLADE, II, b 05 Jan 1917 at Eureka, California USA
m. ca 1940 in California to Carmelita Catherine Rodoni Lang, b 26 Jan 1918 in California, USA
son Melbourne George SLADE, III
There seems to be no representation of this line so far in the DNA studies.
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Here's how I chose to invite friends to study the Book of Revelation with me:
Humans are fascinated with the end of the world. We see this fascination everywhere. Alien invasions, Godzilla attacks, nuclear holocausts, and meteor strikes are only a small selection of our disaster movies that cinema enthusiasts relish. Even when real disasters strike, we have an uncanny knack for finding comfort in our apocalyptic entertainment and millennial charts. This appears odd at the outset. But is it, really?
Do we read books on the end of the world because we wish demise upon ourselves? Are we really that sick? Or, do we somehow believe that the end, whenever it comes, is not actually the end? The Bible speaks of the end times in great detail. But, the message seems awfully obscure to most of us. That complicates things. It seems too confusing to understand, at least for the most part. Yet we want to know. We want to know what will happen. We want to know, is the end really the end? Will we somehow triumph? Will death have the final say?
We naturally refuse to believe that kind of horrific idea, and say, death will surely not win.
This is because Christians are an incredibly hopeful people. It is built into our eschatology. We believe in all of God's promises. We believe Jesus will return and reign at the end. We believe evil will be defeated and all wickedness will be destroyed, cast into the lake of fire.
And, we believe that the blessings Jesus brought with him at his first coming will be increased greatly when he returns. This is what theologians call the "already" and "not yet" theme of the kingdom of God in which we presently live. But that is simply the surface of what Scripture says about the future. We know it is difficult to understand what the Bible says about the end of the age and the age to come. We wonder, for example, will there be a millennium? If so, what will it be and when will it come? Will there be a "secret" rapture? If not, when will it be? There are certainly options for a framework of the key end times' texts: premillennial, postmillennial, amillennial. But which, if any, are correct? What are their strengths? What are their weaknesses?
That is why books on the end times are written, at least the good ones. But we want to know what God's book says about these things. If we can't understand everything, what does God really want us to know right now, while we await the day of his return?
It is with that introduction that I invited friends into my home to study this difficult book. I'm curious as to how you might invite friends over to study the Book of Revelation? As for the study itself, my goal will be to help my friends see Revelation in terms of its present usefulness to Christians, much in the same way it would have been encouraging, useful, and needed among the churches it was originally addressed to. So, we will leave behind the charts and focus of the text itself. We'll use the help of study Bibles and commentaries to help us as much as they can. And when we get to incredibly debated topics along the way, I'll explain the different options and say which one I hold or lean toward.


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Biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson examines the enduring popularity of historical Jesus scholarship.
Biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson argues that historical scholarship alone cannot find the living Jesus. Though the study of history can help Christians to becomes responsible readers of the Gospels, engaging Jesus as a literary figure is ultimately a more fruitful exercise for the person of faith. Prof. Johnson also discusses why 14 years after the publication of The Real Jesus, his critique of historical Jesus scholarship, the popularity of John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg and other such scholars endures. Read "The Jesus Controversy" from the August 2-9 issue.
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Samantha Gutstadt learns something new about herself every day. The 30-year-old actor, producer and web TV host recently signed up for Google alerts about herself.
A note lands in her inbox any time her name pops up online, such as recently when her name appeared on a website dedicated to celebrity dating gossip.
"Dating? I'm married," Gutstadt says with a laugh.
She laughs again talking about the alert that told her some random person on the Internet Movie Database added her to a list of the hottest Canadian women in Hollywood.
It has been about four years since Gutstadt moved to California to make it big as an actress, but a funny thing happened along the way: Gutstadt, a Toronto native, has made a name for herself as a web TV host on This Week in Fashion and on the website RealTVFilms, for which she covers film festivals worldwide.
"I think sometimes our paths and careers come by accident. I came out here wanting to act. I started booking hosting work… It started as a way to make money and not bartend," Gutstadt says on the phone from California.
Now, Gutstadt sees herself hosting for years to come, producing more films and continuing with her acting and modelling career. And she'll do it all her way, an extension of her fashion sense that can only be called the Samantha Style.
As an eight-year-old, Gutstadt would lay out her clothes for school. Not once would she don a dress, not even for picture day at Leo Baeck Day School. She couldn't be like any other little girl at school — she had to be Sam G.
Today, the Samantha Style might be a dress with a tie, or a cuffed suit with studs. There's a sense of old and new that gives you an insight into her personality.
"Clothes are an expression of our personalities. Style is about who you are," Gutstadt says. "I'm a bit of classic… with a bit of edge."
It was the Samantha Style that drove her to California in 2007. If she was going to make it as an actress, she felt she had to be in Hollywood to make her dreams come true. It was a decision she made despite knowing what accompanies such a dramatic move: Jewish guilt.
"You have no idea. We did something weird. We moved to L.A.," Gutstadt says, referring to her husband of more than four years, Ron Nayot. Gutstadt jokes that her parents were concerned that once in California, Gutstadt would end up hanging out with Lindsay Lohan and turning into a Charlie Sheen "winner."
"None of that happened… We literally moved out here to hang out with Canadian Jews," Gutstadt says with a laugh. "Anyone who is Canadian and Jewish in L.A., I know.
"Here, you meet one person and then you meet everyone. I never appreciated the global community of Jews."
Understanding Gutstadt begins with understanding her parents. Her father, Eli, is a lawyer who was born Germany and grew up in New York and Toronto. Today, he lives on a farm in Caledon, Ont., retraining retired racehorses.
Gutstadt's mother, Janice, introduced her daughter to the arts, relying on her background in dancing from York University, her career as an English as a second language (ESL) teacher and love of writing. And they played tennis, which Gutstadt excelled at as a child and continues playing to this day.
"My whole childhood was being part of the Richmond Hill Country Club," she says. "I was part of a non-Jewish tennis sporting world, and Leo Baeck."
Today, Gutstadt is very much a part of the show-business world, landing commercials, acting roles and hosting gigs — Gutstadt is the Tampax Pearl girl with the dress problem and the one destroying the silence in the Hearing Foundation of Canada's mellow yoga class.
She has also attracted attention for her work as a producer on her dark comedy short, Shiva, which airs on Bravo TV in Canada in April.
Shiva is the story of a woman who goes to shivahs in search of true love in the arms of widowed husbands. The idea for the short came from her stepgrandfather. He told her that an unknown woman showed up to a shivah with a casserole in a bid to woo the recently widowed husband, in this case Gutstadt's step-grandfather.
"It was sad because she was also widowed," Gutstadt says. "He didn't even really know her. She was literally crashing the shivah, and she was trying to get him to take her out on a date. Apparently, she did it to other men, too.
"Of course, there's comedy in there, but there's also a darkness."
Despite leaving the comfort of her hometown of Toronto for Los Angeles, Gutstadt says she feels more connected spiritually with her Judaism, leaning on it as part of the personal growth someone goes through when they become a stranger in a strange land.
She said she's organized Passover seders with her friends for the past two years. "It's special," she says.
The late actor Corey Haim was invited to last year's seder. Gutstadt got to know the Toronto native during her time in California, inviting him over years earlier during Chanukah. They grew closer during their time spent together on the set of the 2009 feature Shark City. Gutstadt text-messaged Haim with the Passover invitation the night he died.
"I woke up Thursday hearing the news that he died," Gutstadt says, becoming quiet. She wonders if he got her message. Her humbling silence reveals the soft side to Gutstadt's edge. It's that soft side that tugs at Gutstadt's heart and makes her believe that she may be back in Toronto one day.
"Right now, I'm undecided. It's going to be L.A. or Toronto. Until we have kids, we're going to be here," she says. "I want to get to a certain place with work, but having a kid in L.A. without your family around and when you're not settled with work seems horrifying to me," she says. Los Angeles, she adds, is "a tough place to have a traditional anything because it's not a traditional place. It creates challenges."
Talk long enough with Gutstadt and you get the impression that she can handle any challenges California can throw her way. Her diversified career portfolio might leave a lesser person exhausted, but Gutstadt thrives on it.
"I don't know if it comes from my parents, but I just love it. I wake up and make a list about what I have to do today," she says. "I have that fire in me. No one needs to push me." That's the Samantha Style.


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Remember when your parents told you not to sit too close to the TV or you would go blind? Well, while science – and optometrists – have dispelled that little lie, it looks like too much gaming could prove just as detrimental.
According to Malaysian news site, thestar, a Taiwanese man "lost" the use of his index finger after spending six-hours a day playing games on his touchscreen smartphone.
We imagine these had to be some serious gaming sessions because the site reports that the cartilage between the man's fingers stiffened up to such a great degree that any attempt to bend or move the finger resulted in excruciating pain.
After five months of what we imagine to be slightly embarrassing physiotherapy, the dexterously-disabled gamer is having difficulty holding objects, writing letters (no doubt in response to those asking why in the world he played to the point of harming himself), and carrying out his daily chores, which more than likely must have gone neglected prior to this finger-gate fiasco anyway.
And while it might be commonly referred to as a smartphone, if this story has taught us anything it's that evidently you don't really need to be all that smart to use one.
All isn't lost, though, and a lesson was certainly learned because the man has vowed to never again play another game on his smartphone — pointing the finger of blame (his good one) squarely at himself.
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Inspirational. Depicts how faith in humanity enables tremendous accomplishments.
I just saw THE GREATEST SHOWMAN. What a terrific musical for so many reasons: acting, dancing, singing, romance, sets, special effects, extraordinary transitions, and incredible precision throughout. It is tight—very tight—meaning there is not a wasted movement, a wasted word that does not advance the show. Frankly, is was so beautiful that it had be choked up half the time.
This is an incredible musical. Best Picture nomination, Score for sure.
Absolutely the best....perfect in every way....the music, the acting, the actors and actresses.....love love loved it.
Will see this wonderful movie for the 16th time on Monday 2/12. Haven't gone to the movie theater in years. This one is special.
Although I enjoyed this movie I think it would have been better as a Broadway show.
the music is out of this world my husband and I are seniors there was not one moment we didn't enjoy Hard to believe Hugh Jackman is sooo talented as well as the rest 0f the cast Did not realize it was a musical
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Hector's dolphins living off the coast of Christchurch, New Zealand, have benefitted from the designation of a Marine Protected Area, according to scientists.
Sliding towards extinction
One of the world's smallest dolphin species, Hector's dolphin is also one of the most highly endangered, with fewer than 7,500 individuals remaining. Found only in waters around New Zealand, the species is gradually sliding towards extinction, due mainly to entanglement in fishing nets.
A subspecies from New Zealand's North Island, known as Maui's dolphin, is particularly endangered, with recent figures suggesting it is down to just 55 mature individuals.
Increased survival rates
The Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal Sanctuary was established in 1988 in an attempt to protect the dolphins from fatalities associated with the fishing industry. Researchers who have studied the dolphins in the area for 21 years found that their survival rate has increased by 5.4% since the sanctuary was declared.
"This is the first evidence that Marine Protected Areas can be effective for marine mammals. We found a significant improvement in the survival rate," said Dr Liz Slooten, one of the researchers.
The team of scientists used regular photo identification of Hector's dolphins in the Marine Mammal Sanctuary to monitor their population, starting two years before the area was officially protected. The results of the research are published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
"Estimating population changes in marine mammals is challenging, often requiring many years of research to produce data accurate enough to detect these kinds of biological changes," said Dr Slooten. "It seems to take a long time for a dolphin population to respond to protection, and therefore a long-term study to detect [any] improvement."
Good news and bad news
Unfortunately, although the increased survival rate of the dolphins is a positive step, the researchers were surprised that it had not increased further.
"Once the Banks Peninsula area was protected, we had expected the problem to be solved and the population to be healthy and recovering," said Dr Slooten.
Instead, the team found that the dolphins were not spending the whole year in the protected area, with some moving up to 16 nautical miles outside of the area in winter. Continuing mortality in fishing nets means that the species as a whole is still on course to becoming extinct.
According to Dr Slooten, "The good news is that the situation has improved. The population was doing a nose-dive, declining at 6% per year, and now it's only declining slowly [at] about 1% per year."
"The bad news is that the protected area is still too small. It would need to be extended further offshore to allow the population to stop declining and better still to grow and recover towards its original population size."
Step in the right direction
Although the Marine Protected Area has not yet ensured the long-term survival of Hector's dolphin, it is thought to be a major step in the right direction. The New Zealand government is now considering whether to extend Marine Protected Areas where Hector's dolphins are found.
Speaking about the findings of the research, Dr Barbara Maas, Head of Endangered Species Conservation at NABU-International – Foundation for Nature, said, "This is excellent news because it proves that the removal of fishing nets from their habitat benefits threatened marine mammals. However, it also shows that unless a Protected Area is large enough, this positive influence cannot compensate for mortality caused by fishing. The net effect is continued decline."
Conservationists are calling for a ban on all gillnet and trawl fishing throughout the entire range of Hector's dolphin.
Read more on this story at the BBC and Hector's and Maui's Dolphin SOS.
View photos and videos of dolphin species on ARKive.
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The manifestations of diseases and damages (e.g. cancer) caused by ionising radiation cannot be distinguished from so-called spontaneously occurring diseases. Possible causation by radiation can only be established when the diseases consistently occur statistically significantly more frequently in groups of individuals exposed to radiation and over different groups of individuals than in non-exposed control groups.
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Important epidemiological studies for the determination of the radiation-induced risk of cancer have been conducted in the following groups of individuals:
- Survivors of the atomic bomb explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
- Patients exposed to radiation for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes (e.g. the Canadian fluoroscopy cohort),
- Occupationally exposed persons (e.g. the Wismut uranium miners cohort),
- Residents in the surrounding areas of nuclear installations with high radioactive releases (Hanford (USA), Mayak (Russia)),
- Residents from the surrounding areas of damaged nuclear power plants (Chernobyl and Fukushima) and individuals employed in the cleanup,
- Individuals affected by above ground atomic bomb tests (e.g. veterans of the nuclear tests in Nevada, USA).
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Genetic radiation effects have not been definitely demonstrated in human populations. To date, no increased rate of hereditary diseases in the descendants of the irradiated atomic bombs survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in comparison with that for the general Japanese population has been determined. However, experimental studies on animals have shown that radiation can induce genetic alterations, so-called "mutations" in germ cells. Hence, the estimates for the genetic radiation risk for humans stem from these experimental studies.
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The estimates for the radiation-induced risk of leukaemia and cancer are mainly based on the evaluation of the data of Japanese atomic bomb survivors. This group was exposed to a high dose rate (the entire dose in a split second), however, the dose was only high in a small percentage of those affected.
From the 105,000 individuals included in the analysis from 2007, 35,000 individuals received doses between 5 and 200 mGy. Less than 3 % of the atomic bomb survivors have received doses of more than one Gy. This shows that the atomic bomb survivors are not a highly exposed group of individuals. Nevertheless, it is important to note that – unlike in the exposure scenarios relevant today - they received their doses within a very short period (in a split second) and were thus exposed to high dose rates.
With atomic bomb survivors there are two types of investigations. Whereas the first type focuses on the causes of death (so-called mortality follow-up), the second type investigates newly diagnosed diseases (incidence follow-up). For current issues the findings from the incidence follow-up are more relevant. In the group of the 105,000 survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 850 additional radiation-induced cases of solid tumors were observed until the end of 1998. Added to that were about 85 deaths due to leukaemia which could only be determined from the approx. 85,000 individuals included in the mortality follow-up. Further, the lifetime risk to develop cancer is of interest. The data available on the observation period have to be extrapolated to the lifetime to determine the lifetime radiation risk.
For relatively low radiation exposure levels, as they are determined today in the environment and workplace, a further extrapolation of the results from the Japanese atomic bomb survivors is needed. If the effect of small doses or low dose rates is to be estimated, the epidemiological results, which are mainly available for high dose rates, have to be converted to exposure situations with low doses and chronic exposure. Furthermore, the rate of so-called "spontaneous" cancer and leukaemia diseases in a particular population observed plays an important role for being able to estimate the additional radiation-induced risk.
The extrapolations to lifetime risk have to consider the relevant low dose range and the spontaneous cancer rate within a population. They are therefore subject to estimation uncertainties. They are based on specific model assumptions, among other things on assumptions on cancer development and on the dose-response relationship. They also include assessments by panels of experts. It is necessary to verify these assumptions regularly and to adjust risk estimates to the respective current level of knowledge.
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Based on the data of the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki evaluated so far, the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) estimates the lifetime risk coefficient for radiation induced fatal leukaemias and cancer at about 7 % per Sv for a population of all ages. This means that, if 1,000 individuals are each exposed to 100 mSv then it can be expected that seven individuals will additionally die from cancer or leukaemia (source: UNSCEAR 2006). According to statistical results about 250 individuals out of 1,000 die from cancer or leukaemia without radiation exposure. The ICRP estimates the radiation-induced cancer risk after radiation exposures at low dose rates (such as those occurring in everyday life and in the workplace) at 5.5 % per Sv for the total population and at 4.1 % per Sv for adults (source: ICRP 103, 2007).
On the basic assumption that low doses and chronic exposures are less effective than high doses and acute exposures (given the same total dose), the risk coefficients for radiation protection in the low-dose range have been divided by the factor two in accordance with the recommendations of the ICRP on dose limit values. The intention behind this is to particularly take into account the repair and recovery capacity of irradiated cells at low values of the dose and dose rate. The reduction does not result directly from the observational data for cancer in humans and is based on model assumptions founded on findings from laboratory experiments. The BfS considers the scientific justification for this reduction of the risk coefficients for low doses and chronic exposures insufficient.
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Risk assessment is an overall attempt to ensure realistic risk estimates supported by international and national panels of experts. Safety considerations are not included at this level of risk assessment.
It is currently not possible to make reliable estimates for the risk of developing diseases other than cancer and leukaemia after radiation exposure. However, the evaluations of atomic bombings survivors in Japan, exposed population groups in the former Soviet Union and radiotherapy patients indicate that radiation-induced cardiovascular diseases may also occur more frequently. The assumption that cataracts (clouding of the lens in the eye) belong to the deterministic radiation effects is currently being called into question. Here also, new evidence has emerged indicating that cataracts already occur at tenfold lower doses than until recently assumed (0.5 Gy compared to 5 Gy). There is an ongoing debate that there might be no threshold dose for these diseases and that they should be regarded as stochastic radiation effects like malignant neoplasms.
Reports about the effects of radiation on groups of individuals who have been exposed to low radiation doses can be found in scientific literature. For example observations of an increased occurrence of leukaemias, cancer, hereditary diseases or damage to the unborn child (teratogenic damage) are reported. Some studies refer to individuals living in the surrounding areas of nuclear installations, to individuals who have been exposed to radiation for medical purposes or to individuals living in areas of the Earth with relatively high natural radioactivity. The vast majority of these studies are so-called ecological studies which use data aggregated over time or space. These studies are considered less valid as compared to studies with individual person data on health and exposure. Many of these studies additionally have methodological weaknesses, such as small sample sizes, lack of appropriate controls, insufficient dosimetry, unconsidered influence of further risk factors other than radiation and social factors. Furthermore, there is a tendency to rather report or publish study findings when they indicate an increased risk (publication bias).
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