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Hold On Tight
President Obama misses a chance to rise above partisanship.
This is almost a bottom story of the day, but bear with us: At his meeting with Senate Democrats Wednesday, President Obama complained that Senate Republicans are using procedural maneuvers to block the confirmation of his nominees. The Washington Post portrays the president as hypocritical, noting that this is "a legislative tactic he once practiced himself":
In 2005, a year after his election to the Senate, Obama placed a hold on Susan Bodine to lead the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees Superfund and emergency cleanup programs because the agency had missed a deadline on new regulations for lead paint exposure.
In September 2006, Obama and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) blocked Robert L. Wilkie's nomination as a Defense Department assistant secretary over a long-delayed Pentagon report on Midwestern wind farms.
And Obama joined with other Democrats in October 2007 to block the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission. Von Spakovsky later withdrew; Wilkie and Bodine were eventually confirmed.
In addition, in 2005 and 2006 Obama voted against allowing the confirmations of Janice Rogers Brown and Bill Pryor as federal judges, Samuel Alito as a Supreme Court justice, and John Bolton as U.N. ambassador to proceed to a vote on the floor, although only in Bolton's case was the filibuster successful. Obama was not part of the bipartisan "Gang of 14," which reached an agreement to stop most judicial filibusters temporarily.
A post on the White House blog by Communication Director Dan Pfeiffer reiterates the complaint:
This isn't just a problem for nominees; it's become a problem for legislating, too. Historically, the filibuster has been used as a way to try and reach a bipartisan compromise; now it's just a tactic used to gum up the works. The Senate has had to cast more votes to break filibusters last year than in the entire 1950s and '60s combined. This has prevented an honest debate from taking place, which has made it impossible to find agreement on important legislation that would benefit working families in this country.
What's clear from all of this is that we need to change the way business is done in this city. If we're going to have a government that works for the American people, then we need to focus on the things that actually matter to them, like jobs and health care. Every day we waste delaying votes on well-qualified public servants or obstructing progress on problems that need solving is a day we're not doing our jobs. It's time to put an end to these partisan political games and get back to work.
This argument is transparently insincere, and this reflects the nature of the argument, not the president's character. As Michael Barone has observed, "all procedural arguments are insincere, including this one." We will never be rid of "partisan political games" because politicians, being partisans, object to them only when the other party benefits from them.
Or when they embarrass one's own party. The Associated Press reports that Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, has placed a hold on "every one of the president's nominees over spending disputes involving his state":
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky offered little defense, saying Thursday that he didn't know much about Shelby's concerns and that he would try to hash them out "sooner rather than later."
Perhaps when Obama spoke, he knew that this news was about to break, making the GOP look foolish. Even if that's so, the president missed an opportunity here. He could have made his argument in a way that at least sounded more sincere. The way to have done this would be to emphasize the institutional conflict between the president and the Senate rather than the partisan one between Democrats and Republicans.
Obama is unusually positioned to address this question. He is the only president to have served in the Senate after 1961, when Lyndon B. Johnson left the upper chamber to become vice president. He therefore has experienced the tactics he is criticizing from both sides. He could say that as president, he now understands why he was wrong to use such tactics while he was a senator.
Such an argument might not be any more sincere, but it would be more attractive and harder to dismiss as mere partisan posturing. That he didn't make it leads one to suspect that such posturing is all he was trying to accomplish--or perhaps that he's simply too stubborn to admit he was wrong.
Where Would They Be Without Him?
One more amusing tidbit from the president's meeting with Senate Democrats, as reported by the Associated Press:
Obama called the senators by their first names and praised them for legislation they sent him last year. He acknowledged the health care fight got messy, the transparency disappeared, and "we paid a price for it."
Just keep pushing, he said.
"I know these are tough times to hold public office," he said. "I'm there in the arena with you."
The first step is to admit you have a problem.
Contempt of Court
ABC News reports that the White House is preparing for two possible Supreme Court vacancies this summer. The eldest justices, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will be 90 and 77, respectively, when the high court's term ends, and a year ago Ginsburg had cancer for the second time. Both justices are part of the court's so-called liberal wing. With a Democrat in the White House and a big but likely evanescent Democratic majority in the Senate, the timing would be optimal to ensure a congenial replacement.
But we're scratching our head over this:
Last week, when Obama took the nearly unprecedented step of criticizing the court's opinion in a major campaign finance case during his State of the Union speech, some believed he was showcasing for the American people that presidential elections, and Supreme Court nominations count. . . .
Doug Kendall, of the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center, said the president's message was clear: "President Obama's spirited reaction to Citizens United at the State of the Union indicates he fully understands the importance of the federal judiciary and the ability of the Supreme Court to stand in the way of his administration's agenda."
The Constitutional Accountability Center describes itself as "a think tank, law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of our Constitution's text and history," which is to say that it is on Obama's side.
Both Obama's denunciation of the court and Kendall's remark are extraordinarily crass. Imagine if President Bush had used a State of the Union Address to rail against the Supreme Court's rulings on, say, the rights of enemy combatants at Guantanamo. Imagine further that a supporter of his had described those rulings in the same language Kendall used with regard to Citizens United: an example of "the ability of the Supreme Court to stand in the way of his administration's agenda."
ABC reports that "Kendall hopes Obama's dressing down of the majority will translate into greater attention to the judicial nomination and confirmation process." The implication is that this was part of Obama's motive. But why? With only 41 Republicans in the Senate, it ought to be easy to confirm just about any halfway presentable nominee.
A contentious confirmation battle would serve the interests of partisan groups on both sides, because it would raise their profile and help their fund raising. But Obama's picking a fight at this time looks foolish as well as undignified.
Bushism of the Day
"One such translator was American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world: Navy corpse-man Christian Broussard. And lying on a gurney aboard the USNS Comfort, a woman asked Christopher, 'Where do you come from? . . .' "--President Obama, National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 4
Global Warming Outsourcing
Another job has been sent to India--but this is a job that is held by an Indian, London's Daily Telegraph reports:
The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it "cannot rely" on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own leading scientist Dr R.K Pachauri.
The move is a significant snub to both the IPCC and Dr Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following the revelation that his most recent climate change report included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. Scientists believe it could take more than 300 years for the glaciers to disappear.
The IPCC won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Meanwhile, London's Guardian reports on the continuing investigation over the University of East Anglia climate scientists' emails:
A scientist at the University of East Anglia has been questioned by detectives investigating how controversial emails were leaked from the campus's climate research unit.
Norfolk police have interviewed and taken a formal statement from Paul Dennis, 54, another climate researcher who heads an adjacent laboratory.
The leaked emails from the head of the unit, Professor Phil Jones, surfaced just before the Copenhagen conference in December and caused a furore because they suggested that data which did not support theories of global warming was being deliberately withheld. Dennis denies leaking the material. But it is understood that his links with climate change sceptic bloggers in North America drew him to the attention of the investigating team, and have exposed rifts within the university's environmental science faculty.
Dennis refused to sign a petition in support of Jones when the scandal broke. He told friends he was one of several staff unwilling to put their names to the Met Office-inspired statement in support of the global warming camp, because "science isn't done by consensus."
Dennis, it seems, has come under criminal suspicion because he did not support his colleagues' dishonest practices. There appears to be no evidence that it was he who distributed the emails, but at this point it seems to us there's a good case for dropping the investigation on the ground that whoever did distribute them did a public service.
Zero-Tolerance Watch
A 9-year-old boy from the New York City borough of Staten Island "was nearly suspended after playing with LEGOs during his lunch period because one of the action figures was carrying at toy machine gun," reports the Staten Island Advance:
He and his friends had planned a playdate with their respective toys, and were sitting around the cafeteria table when the principal walked in and saw the action figure carrying the fake gun.
While the action figure was a standard LEGO policeman figure, the brand of the gun could not be determined.
"She took him into her office in the middle of the lunch period and he was crying," said the boy's mother, Laura Timoney. "He was afraid."
The principal called Ms. Timoney and said she considered the toy suspension-worthy, and that she was going to double-check with a security administrator from the city Department of Education.
The "fake gun" was two inches long. No one was injured.
New York's Daily News reports that "a 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out in handcuffs" for "doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker":
Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said.
"I love my friends Abby and Faith," the girl wrote, adding the phrases "Lex was here. 2/1/10" and a smiley face. . . .
She was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours, she and her mother said.
At least the Big Apple's schools are tough on teachers who misbehave, too. The New York Post reports that Alan Rosenfeld, a teacher in Queens, "was accused in 2001 of making lewd comments to junior-high girls and 'staring at their butts' ":
In 2001, six eighth-graders at IS 347 in Queens accused Rosenfeld, a typing teacher who filled in for an absent dean, of making comments like "You have a sexy body," asking one whether she had a boyfriend and making others feel uncomfortable with creepy leers.
Ever since, he has been confined to a "rubber room." The only thing that could make this punishment harsher would be if the city weren't still paying him $100,000 a year.
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
"In a previous post, 'OPP: James O'Keefe, ACORN and Landrieu Stinger, Ran Racist Forum,' the Voice mischaracterized the event, saying that O'Keefe 'ran' and had 'organized' what we called 'a racist forum.' We also cited a Salon story by Max Blumenthal, 'James O'Keefe's race problem,' that talked about O'Keefe's staffing a table that was 'filled with tracts from the white supremacist right.' We mischaracterized the role in the event of the Leadership Institute (O'Keefe's employer at the time). [David] Weigel, who says he attended the event, points out in a post this afternoon that it was 'a debate, not a forum for [white nationalist Jared] Taylor.' "--Village Voice Web site, Feb. 4
With DNC in Mind, City Bans Carrying Urine, Feces
"Democrats Considering Boycott of Waste Hauler"--headline, Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette, Jan. 4
Rahm Emanuel Called It a 'F---ing Jackal'
"Coyote, Found Injured in December, Put Down"--headline, Boston Globe, Feb. 4
We Blame George W. Bush
"Charlie Sheen's Car Found at Bottom of Cliff"--headline, People.com, Feb. 5
Hey Cliff, Give Him His Car Back So Maybe He'll Leave
"Sheen Remains Weeks After Port Arthur Oil Spill"--headline, Associated Press, Feb. 5
What's Wrong With Shackles?
"Judge Wants Ex-Edwards Aide in Court, With Tape"--headline, Associated Press, Feb. 5
Do Not Lie With a Boxee-Hulu as One Lies With a Woman
"NBC's Jeff Zucker Caught in a Boxee-Hulu Lie"--headline, Minyanville.com, Feb. 5
Thanks, but We'll Stick With the Dart Board
"BlackRock's Doll Says US Stocks' Corrective Phase 'Not Over' "--headline, Reuters, Feb. 4
Someone Should Have a Talk With Them About the Birds and the Bees
"St. Charles Students Shop for Kids in the Hospital"--headline, Saginaw (Mich.) News, Feb. 4
Man Who Sit on Tack Get Point
"Confucious Says: Ouch"--headline, Newsweek.com, Feb. 4
She Got Tired of Talking to Herself Anyway
"Last Speaker of Ancient Language of Bo Dies in India"--headline, BBC Web site, Feb. 4
Gravity Is Suspected
"TUSD Is Investigating How Student Fell Out of Moving School Bus"--headline, Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), Feb. 4
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Will Alfa Romeo Survive?"--headline, Detroit Free Press, Feb. 4
- "Q. Will Saltpeter Hurt My Long-Term Health?"--headline, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 3
- "Is It Okay to Talk About Your Daughters' Weight if It Is for the National Good?"--headline, Shine.yahoo.com, Feb. 3
Dog Operates on Man--Now That Would Be News
"RI Man Charged With Operating on His Own Dog"--headline, Associated Press, Feb. 5
Dog Kisses Man--Now That Would Be News
"Police Dog-Kissing Man Arrested"--headline, Metro.co.uk, Feb. 4
Socalists Have Positive View of Democracy: Now That Would Be News
"Gallup: Majority of Democrats 'Have a Positive View of Socialism' "--headline, FreeMarketMojo.com, Feb. 5
Look Out Below!
"Scientists, Students, Sierra Club Call on UNC to Drop Coal"--headline, Carrboro (N.C.) Citizen, Feb. 4
It's Always in the Last Place You Look
"Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov Seeks Prestige in Paris"--headline, Eurasianet.org, Feb. 3
Too Much Information
"Cubans Mushrooming in Venezuela's Sensitive Sectors"--headline, El Universal (Caracas), Feb. 4
Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control
- "Britain Facing Food Crisis as World's Soil 'Vanishes in 60 Years' "--headline, Daily Telegraph (London), Feb. 3
- "Dutch Finally Ban Bestiality"--headline, ABC News Web site (Australia), Feb. 3
- "Stalker Pheasant Terrorises English Villages"--headline, News.com.au, Feb. 4
- "Cheese's Twilight Rattles France's Sense of Self"--headline, Associated Press, Feb. 3
- "Donkey Can Buy Platinum Dentures"--headline, Kansas City Star Web site, Feb. 4
News of the Tautological
"Elementary Students and Parents Enjoy Fun Activities"--headline, Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot, Feb. 3
Breaking News From 1803
"Sen. Landrieu Defends 'Louisiana Purchase,' Says Jindal Asked for It"--headline, Hill Web site, Feb. 4
News You Can Use
- "Type A Personalities: Keep the Laptop Out of the Bedroom"--headline, BizLex.com, Feb. 4
- "Odds of Your Vehicle Going Out of Control Seem Rather Rare"--headline, Detroit Free Press, Feb. 4
- "Bet on Saints to Cover in Super Bowl, Quant Fund Manager Says"--headline, Bloomberg, Feb. 4
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "MSU Won't Alter Logo"--headline, Detroit Free Press, Feb. 5
- "Obama Says Healthcare May Be 2010 Election Issue"--headline, Reuters, Feb. 4
- "Majority of Canadians Plan to Retire on Time"--healdine, CanWest News Service, Feb. 4
Doing a Double Take
Even in the Obama era, discrimination isn't dead in America. Seattle Weekly tells of a case in point:
Benjamin Grundy is a student at Garfield-Palouse High School (local population: 1,100) who says the school is discriminating against his wishes to do what all the other cheerleaders are doing. Namely, dance, wave pom-poms, wear a proper uniform and not just stand like there like a statue moving his arms.
That's what Grundy and his mom say he's been reduced to since the cheerleading coach instructed him he couldn't gyrate his hips like the girls do and the athletic director allegedly suggested he be the team mascot. Since writing letters to ACLU and a local congresswoman, Garfield has offered Grundy a uniform and pom-poms. But that's not enough, says his mom.
Yet even the Weekly shows that it isn't beyond bias. The headline reads: "Gay, Mentally Challenged Biracial Male Cheerleader Claims Discrimination." What if Grundy were straight, mentally unchallenged, uniracial and female? In that case, we'll bet it would be simply: "Cheerleader Claims Discrimination."
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El Pollo Rico
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Crispy & Juicy and I'll probably always be loyal to the first place I ever had Peruvian chicken. It's still one of my go-to places when I want a quick and delicious dinner. But, I had read that the best place for Peruvian was El Pollo Rico located on a little side street almost in between Clarendon and Ballston.
Like most of these places, El Pollo Rico is a modest joint but with a substantially larger seating area than I've seen in other places. It was moderately busy when I went there but the traffic flow was constant throughout the time I ate. I was pretty hungry that night so I ordered a half chicken with just dark meat. You could only choose between rice, fries or slaw as your sides so I went with a double starch special of rice and fries. I wasn't feeling the slaw tonight. It would've been nice to be able to choose a side that wasn't white or yellow but the place was as no-frills as it gets and it was apparent that it was all about the chicken. I also got one of their green sauces and two of the yellowish sauce (25 cents extra for the second one) that I loved so much from Crispy & Juicy.
It's tough to go wrong with Peruvian chicken but it's also tough to differentiate yourself. While I wished there was more variety in their selection of sides (but really I'm Asian, so rice is like my blood and no one's ever gone wrong with steak fries), the meal really does center around the chicken. The spice rub and the sauce make it stand out amid a sea of chicken houses and while my first love is Crispy & Juicy, if I were to step out on her every once in awhile, El Pollo Rico may be the place you'd find me.
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CLEP Testing
Examination Title ISU Course Credit
American Government Pol S 215 3 cr.
Biology Biol 101 3 cr. Not for Biology or Engineering majors
Calculus Math 165 4 cr.
Financial Accounting Acct 284 3 cr. May not count in Engineering- contact Department
prior to registration.
French Language Frnch 101, 102, 201, 202 8-16 cr.
German Language Ger 101, 102, 201, 202 8-16 cr.
Microeconomics Econ 101 3 cr.
Macroeconomics Econ 102 3 cr.
Introductory Psychology Psych 101 3 cr.
Introductory Sociology Soc 134 3 cr.
Spanish Language Span 101, 102, 201, 202 8-16 cr.
The following CLEP examinations do not fulfill specific course requirements but will count toward graduation in all colleges except Engineering.
Examination Title* Credit
Humanities (Fine Arts & Literature) Fine Arts 2 cr. / Literature 4 cr.
Natural Sciences (Biological & Physical Sciences) Biological Sciences 3 cr. / Physical Sciences 3 cr.
Social Sciences & History Social Sciences 4 cr. / History 2 cr.
*If you are enrolling in the College of Engineering, please do not take these three CLEP exams.
Please go to http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/cbe/clep.php for minimum score requirements at Iowa State University.
Common Questions
Q: How long is the test?
A: The CLEP exams are 90 minutes with multiple-choice questions to be answered; however, some exams do have fill-ins. The French, German and Spanish exams consist of reading and listening skills, and include three separately timed sections. Your total score on the language examinations determines whether credit for two to four semesters is awarded.
Q: Should I take CLEP exam?
A: If you are sure the credits will be accepted in your major, if you have completed advanced studies (such as honors, advanced placement, or a college level course) in a particular subject area, and if you scored above 24 on the ACT, you should consider taking these exams.
Q: How do I know if the CLEP credit will be accepted in my major?
A: Almost all programs at Iowa State accept CLEP credit for Psych 101, Soc 134 or Pol Sci 215. Other CLEP and departmental test-out credits, such as Financial Accounting and Economics, are more specialized and may not be accepted as readily. Only an academic advisor can say with certainty. Talk with your advisor and refer to the on-line Iowa State University catalog at http://catalog.iastate.edu/ before you register for the tests.
Q: What about the CLEP Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences? Will those credits be accepted in my
A: These credits can be used as electives in all colleges except Engineering, and they'll meet general course requirements in all colleges except Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences. Please check with your department before registering for the examinations.
Q: How do I prepare for the CLEP exams?
A: Visit the CLEP PREP CENTER on the College Board Web site (http://www.collegeboard.com/clep) for useful tips on assessing your readiness and preparing for any of CLEP's exams. Also in the CLEP PREP CENTER are individual subject study guides which can be downloaded for a fee and the CLEP Sampler which can be downloaded free of charge.
Q: What is a passing score on CLEP exams at Iowa State University?
A: You will need a score equivalent to a B grade. CLEP French/German/Spanish Language information for passing scores can be found at: http://www.counseling.iastate.edu/testing-services.
In order to reach the total score you see on your score report, two calculations are performed.
First, your "raw score" is calculated. This is the number of questions you answer correctly. Your raw score increases by one point for each question answered correctly, and no points are gained or lost when a questions is not answered or is answered incorrectly.
Second, your raw score is converted into a "scaled score" by a statistical process called equating. Equating maintains the consistency of standards for test scores over time by adjusting for slight differences in difficulty between test forms. This ensures that your score does not depend on the specific test form you took or how well others did on the same form. Your raw score is converted to a scaled score that ranges from 20, the lowest, to 80, the highest. The final scaled score is the score that appears on your score report.
Q: How soon will I receive my results?
A: You will receive your unofficial candidate score report upon completion of the exam. Your scores are reported only to you, unless you ask to have them sent elsewhere. If you want your scores sent to Iowa State University, you must select this option when you register online. This service is free of charge only if you select your score recipient at the time you test. A fee will be charged for each score recipient you select at a later date. All passing CLEP scores will be sent to the Office of the Registrar. Test-out (T) credit will be posted on your transcript generally at the end of the following semester.
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The problem is this doesn't list out the pages in the same order as the default page ordering. For example this is how the pages show without my taxonomy filter:
- Parent1 (menu_order: 4)
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I have simplified my code to the following:
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Justin Barneystaff biosend email
The residue of an offseason salary cap slashing is gone. Just a few reminders in the lockerroom, on the depth chart and in meaningless banter. The 7-9 mark it posted last year is an afterthought.
The Jacksonville Jaguars, like every NFL team before the season begins, set the same goals. Playoffs and Super Bowl. While those dreams crumbled last year amidst a boatload of injuries, the optimism returns this season -- albeit with not near as much fanfare.
''We're pretty optimistic about our season,'' running back Fred Taylor said. ''We're not saying we're going straight to the Super Bowl, but we think our chances are as good as anyone elses.''
After posting a league-best 15-3 record in 1999, the Jaguars stumbled on their way to their worst finish since the 1995 expansion season. So entering this year having been branded underachievers, some players feel that label is the best one to have.
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No hype. No expectations. No pressure.
''Our expectations personally are very high,'' linebacker Kevin Hardy said. ''We feel we have a very strong ballclub and definitely want to go to the playoffs and eventually the Super Bowl.
''But if you ask people outside the organization, they wouldn't expect the same thing. But it's a position thats fun to be in because you don't have that pressure on you. I'm ready to play.''
Coach Tom Coughlin agrees.
''I'm upbeat, I'm always upbeat,'' he said. ''I'm really looking forward to it.''
While the Jaguars' offense has been in a lull throughout the preseason -- no touchdowns in first two full games -- that's not the biggest question heading into the season. It's the addition of new defensive coordinator Gary Moeller.
Thus far, the reception has been cool at best for the former Detroit Lions head coach who replaces Dom Capers.
While Capers, who left to take the head coaching job for the expansion Houston Texans, used a zone blitz scheme that many players favored, Moeller prefers a defense that stresses coverage packages.
''We know the defense, but we don't know what our roles are yet,'' said third-year cornerback Fernando Bryant, who sounded less than enthused about the new defense.
''Until we figure out our roles, we're still going to have questions.''
Mark Brunell (311 for 512, 3,640 yards, 20 TD, 9 INT) is firmly entrenched as the starter and is coming off a solid 2000 campaign. Throughout his career with the Jaguars, Brunell's skills have never been questioned, rather his ability to stay healthy. He should benefit more under new offensive coordinator Bob Petrino.
One of the most talked about battles in training camp has been between Jamie Martin and a reborn Jonathan Quinn.
Quinn capped an impressive offseason in NFL Eurpoe with an MVP performance in the World Bowl, but he's struggled back on U.S. soil. He's entering a contract year, so the Jaguars are hoping he steps to the forefront. Martin has been slowed by a foot injury, but hasn't done much to put distance between he and Quinn when he's been able to play. The backup job likely won't be decided until after the preseason.
Running backs
If, that's the key word here. When Fred Taylor (292 carries, 1,399 yards, 12 TD) is as healthy as he was during the latter part of last year, he's in the upper echelon of backs in the league. He can slash, cut, or run a defender over. But thus far, Band-aid stretches have been numerous for the former University of Florida runner. Behind Taylor, the options are limited.
Stacey Mack and Shyrone Stith are battling to be Taylor's backup, but Coughlin has indicated Mack may switch to the fullback position. Should Mack stay as Taylor's backup, look for either Patrick Washington or Kevin Clemens to take former Jaguar fullback Daimon Shelton's old position.
Wide receivers
The most talented position on the team, but also one that hinges the most on health.
Smith (91 rec., 1,123 yards, 8 TD) was rumored to be on his way to retirement this past offseason with abdominal troubles and he's been limited throughout training camp. Over the past five years, there hasn't been a pass-catcher in the league that's been better than Smith (6,599 yards, four Pro-Bowls in that span) and the Jags need his services.
''He's done well,'' Coughlin said of Smith. ''He's got to work on his endurance, but he's playing well.''
Keenan McCardell, coming off his best season as a pro (94 receptions, 1,207 yards, 5 TD) has also been dogged in the early going with injuries, and will more than likely miss the season-opener and possibly longer after undergoing hernia surgery. Adding veteran free agent Sean Dawkins (63 receptions, 731 yards, 5 TD last year with Seattle) was a safe move, and he should help offset the loss of McCardell.
Second-year player R. Jay Soward only had 14 catches for 154 yards and one touchdown last year, not exactly Pro Bowl numbers. He's sizzled thus far in camp, but he'll be suspended the first four games of the season for violating the league's substance-abuse policy. Rookie free agent Randal Williams should more than likely stick here.
Tight ends
Kyle Brady (64 receptions, 729 yards, 11.4 yards per catch, 3 TDs) had a career campaign last year, shedding the label of soft hands and strictly a blocking tight end to become one of the most viable receiving options behind Smith and McCardell.
A big question mark heading into the season is the health of Damon Jones. He was a vital part of the Jaguars' offense in 1999, catching a career-high 19 passes for 221 yards and four TDs. But he sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament in last year's season opener against Cleveland, and has been brought along slowly. Considering how often Brunell has thrown to his tight ends over the past two seasons (116 completions in 1999-2000) Jones' return is critical.
Offensive line
A shaky line got even thinner with Tony Boselli's knee injury during training camp, but the Jaguars are thankful that it's not any worse. Diagnosed as a bone bruise, Boselli is expected to be back for the regular-season opener.
''Oh yeah, I hope so,'' Coughlin said of Boselli in the opening-day lineup. ''But we'll see. Again, no one has told me any different. He's getting right after it.''
Rookie free agent Gannon Shepherd, a 6-8, 317-pound tackle, inherits Boselli's position for the time being.
Center Jeff Smith was re-signed, and Zach Wiegert returns from a knee injury, but thats the only true experience on the line. The team hopes second-year player Brad Meester has developed enough to help offset the losses of Todd Fordham and Leon Searcy to free agency. There's also hope that second-round draft pick Maurice Williams develops quickly.
Mark Baniewicz and John Wade were both expected to provide added depth, but each is injured and gone for the season.
Defensive line
The Jaguars bypassed a glaring need at offensive line to take the University of Georgia's Marcus Stroud in the first round of the NFL Draft. Stroud -- who broke a hand his first week of camp -- has to emerge in his first season for that pick to not be dubbed a bust by draftniks.
Stroud's biggest contribution, however, might not come in the form of individual stats. The 6-6, 321-pound tackle is a space-eater who should routinely see double teams, alleviating pressure on Gary Walker (68 tackles, 30 solo, 5 sacks) and Renaldo Wynn (55 tackles, 26 solo, 3.5 sacks).
Defensive end Joel Smeenge is gone, and Tony Brackens (78 tackles, 7.5 sacks) had a mild 2000 season after signing a monster contract last year. Look for third-year player Larry Smith to finally emerge if he can stay healthy.
The biggest question mark here is whether Hardy Nickerson can get back to his Pro Bowl form. He missed 10 games last season and ended up on injured reserve with a knee injury that he thought could've ended his career.
Despite playing in only six games, he still finished fifth on the team with 75 tackles. With Nickerson at full strength, and playing alongside Kevin Hardy (149 tackles, 3 sacks) and second-year player T.J. Slaughter (108 tackles), the first-team linebacking corps is one of the strongest areas on the squad.
''It's been strong in the past, and it's petty strong again,'' said Hardy of the linebacker position. ''T.J. had a strong camp and Hardy has bounced back from that injury and been tremendous. Last year we had some setbacks, but if guys stay healthy around us, combined with the guys we have, we can be a really strong defense.''
Third-round draftee Eric Westmoreland and second-year backer Danny Clark, should also see time this season.
After impressive 1999 seasons, this area struggled last year. Aaron Beasley has established himself as one of the top corners in the league. Bryant was a physical presence in his rookie season, but saw his production taper off last year while battling injuries.
The questions still surround safety Carnell Lake, and has his injured foot healed sufficiently enough for him to contribute.
Lake spent all of last season on the injured reserve list.
Safety Donovin Darius (112 tackles, 80 solo, 2 interceptions) is a big hitter in the middle, while rookies Marlon McCree and James Boyd likely start alongside Darius if Lake can't go.
''We have to see more, but he's coming along,'' Coughlin said of Lake. ''He's getting more familiar, more comfortable out there. They (Boyd and McCree) get work, Carnell gets work, they all get the same amount of snaps. They'll be able to interchange.''
Special teams
Mike Hollis is one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history and an offseason contract squabble doesn't look like its carried onto the field. The team spent a fourth-round pick on University of Tennessee punter David Leaverton to replace Bryan Barker, but he's struggled in camp. This slot, and if the team decides to keep kickoff specialist Jim Tarle, won't be decided until final cuts.
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Carrying any handgun has its trade-offs as far as conceal-ability vs. comfort. The J frames are no different. I have carried my Airweight with inside pocket, OWB, and IWB holsters. Now I tend to use the IWB Remora no clip. I slip in in my waste band and it stays put. I can even run with it and it does not move. It can be removed from the waste band easily and reinserted easily and its comfortable to carry with it. Another thing I like about it is if I am carrying and get in my car or truck I can remove it and slip it between the seats and it stays put and keeps the handgun close at hand while driving. The outside material these are constructed with is very grippy. It is the perfect option.....no, but no option is really perfect.
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Badmitten was an awesome band.
I remember seeing Chinese guys at the gym in college playing badminton all of the time. If only they had table tennis there.
For years I thought it was Badmington. Gotta love regional accents ...
It's that pesky nasal stop. Same reason people say "Clih-un" for Clinton.
I'm going to have to stop subscribing to SLOG if you keep insisting on posting shit like this. You all already average 33 items / day, which is too many. Random spelling insights are a waste of bytes.
Whoa. You just blew my mind!
Easy on Megan, Seinfeld made a billion dollars with these types of insights. Has anyone seen the film "I just want someone to eat cheese with", and isn't that basically a Seinfeld episode set in Chicago? It's Jeff from Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David, but still I thought he'd stretch it a little. Sexual interest from Sarah Silverman seems like a stretch but otherwise?
WHAT!?!? With this crowd and no shuttlecock jokes? I'm disappointed in you all.
"Easy on Megan"? Never. She likes to throw the word "retardedly" around like it's perfectly acceptable language for a so-called writer to use on a blog. I want to be sure her name is forever linked with that word so that she'll be a $9-an-hour wage slave for the rest of her life.
I don't breath when the shuttlecock is in the air. Thankfully this is not long.
Yeah megan. Retarded is not acceptable. Its borderline faggot to us social worker types, and anyone with a handicapped relative. So cut that fuckin shit out. Makes you sound real dumb...See better than the R word. However, Badminton is awesome, I played last weekend. I couldn't even serve to those guys. TB, if I were you I would quit reading , or get used to it, cause SLOG ain't changin!
Do you know that the shuttlecock is the fastest-moving object in all of sports? It's been clocked at over 200 mph!
Is this an Olympic sport like ping pong and curling?
sweet video, and i'm pretty sure the shuttlecock is not the fastest sports object. I'm pretty sure that Both golfballs and jai alai balls are known to be faster.
Negative @13. There IS no Olympic sport like Curling.
I'm dead serious.
# 14 --
just double-checked and, while badminton's bird has been clocked at 180 mph, jai-alai has been clocked at 188 mph.
but i'm pretty sure one of these days, an olympian will smash that record.
Good thing it slows down to 2mph by the time it gets to the other side.
By falling silent simultaneously, all thought in unison that the guy's dogs who was walking his dogs were at the point of attacking all of us.
Pot cookie minton.
Natalie Merchant is the worst mitten Charles Mudede's ever been smitten with.
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Midas Fall is a large waterfall that feeds the Midas River in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. After being flushed out of the Kero Sewers, Mario and Mallow are flung down the fall. While letting himself be carried by the current (though it was also possible to swim slightly upstream, so as to slow down Mario's fall), Mario can try to grab Coins and Frog Coins scattered all around the surface of water.
At the bottom of the fall, Mario and Mallow land on a barrel floating in the Midas River.


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Re: Security Clearance
I had mine before my credit problems but I have had to have it renewed and upgraded in the past year. They did ask a few questions but it was approved. Did he already have one? If not that might be the deal breaker. I was in the military where I got mine, when I got out I got a job at a defense contractor where I needed a higher clearance.
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Closing down. Get out this thing is going lower.
Sentiment: Strong Sell
Looks like you should get out of this stock prediction game, dude.
Like I said - you're like the suckers in Vegas who see that a roulette table has come up red 6 times in a row and so bets black because "it's due". Then, when it randomly comes up black sooner or later, you shout, "See, I told you it would come up black!" Yeah - you're a real genius. You went short what, $4 ago, and now you're excited because it's down a dime.
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More than 50 workshops, concerts, dances and performances
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The New Edinburgh Folk Club of Dunedin first held the annual
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I want to add a line to top and bottom of the file. I can do it following way.
open (DATA, "</usr/old") || die "cant open old\n"; #file to which line has to be added
my @body=<DATA>;
open (FILE, ">/usr/new") || die "cant open new\n"; #file after stuff has been added
print FILE "9 431";
print FILE "\n";
my $body=@body;
for (my $i=0; $i<$body;$i++){
print FILE "$body[$i]";#not using for loop leads to addition of spaces in new file
print FILE "(3,((((1,4),(7,6)),(2,8)),5),9)";
Since I running for a large set of file this process will be time consuming. Does Perl has any specific functionality which used to add lines at top and bottom of a file?


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The Lindbergh Baby | Who Kidnapped and Killed Charles Lindbergh III
When a police chief and a defense lawyer from a small town in New Hampshire took a closer look at the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping and murder case, they found themselves taking on a legend.
In the summer of 1990, Gregory Ahlgren had no idea that the next three years of his life were about to be changed by a paperback book.
The 41-year-old defense attorney was sorting through boxes as he and his wife had just moved from their home in Goffstown, New Hampshire, to another in nearby Manchester. In one of the boxes Ahlgren found a 30-year old anthology about famous crimes. It included a story about one of the most notorious cases of the century, the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. The trial had pitted Charles A. Lindbergh, an American icon, against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a poor German carpenter who was arrested after he passed some of the Lindbergh ransom money. Although Hauptmann was executed for the crime, he maintained his innocence until the day he died. He had some prominent supporters, including the governor of New Jersey, Harold Hoffman. Time had done little to quiet the controversy.
Though faced with a mountain of work, Ahlgren read the article, which raised strong doubts about Hauptmann's guilt. The kidnapping had taken place on March 1, 1932, in a rural New Jersey town with a two-man police force. The state police force was headed by Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a political appointee whose police experience amounted to having once worked as a department store detective and whose son would later become a hero in his own right.
Given the police limitations and Lindbergh's stature as one of the most famous men in the world, few objected when the aviator took virtual control of the investigation — not even when he threatened to shoot any police officer who disobeyed his orders or when he used his political muscle to discourage the FBI's involvement in the case.
That bothered Ahlgren. "What I saw in the article," he says, "was a pattern of a person trying to obscure a crime."
On a whim, Ahlgren mailed a copy of the story to Stephen Monier, the Goffstown chief of police and a former president of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police. He attached a note asking Monier what he thought.
Ahlgren can't explain why he mailed Monier the article. In many respects they are polar opposites. Ahlgren, an unabashed liberal who defends the sorts of people Monier would like to lock up, was once a Democratic state representative. The 40-year-old police chief keeps an autographed photo of George Bush next to his desk.
The pair met in a Goffstown courtroom in the late 1970s. Ahlgren had recently opened a criminal-law practice in Manchester. Monier was not only a Goffstown police officer, but also the town prosecutor.
"Greg was representing some person we'd arrested for a series of thefts," remembers Monier. "He was very unassuming, almost a hayseed. Then he started to argue."
The outcome? "He won," says Monier. "I'd like to think we've evened the score since then."
A few years later Monier turned to Ahlgren when his father, a prominent politician, needed an attorney. In 1982 Robert Monier gave up his position as president of the state senate to run for governor. In the middle of the Republican primary, he was accused of conspiring to funnel bank funds into political campaigns by a bank official who had himself been arrested for embezzlement.
Ultimately the accusations proved to be false. But the damage was done. Once the front-runner, Monier lost the primary to John Sununu, who became governor. At his son's urging, Monier hired Ahlgren to file a civil suit against the bank official for damages. Monier's father committed suicide before the trial. Still, Ahlgren went ahead and won a $100,000 judgment for the estate. Says Monier: " It was one of the best-tried cases I've ever seen."
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There is another similar question to mine, but the discussion veered away from the problem I'm encounting.
Say I have a system that deals with expense reports (ER). You can create and edit them, add attachments, and approve/reject them.
An expense report might look like this:
GET /er/1
{"title": "Trip to NY", "totalcost": "400 USD",
"comments": [
"john: Please add the total cost",
"mike: done, can you approve it now?"
"approvals": [
{"john": "Pending"}, {"finance-group": "Pending"}]
That looks fine, right? Thats what an expense report document looks like.
If you want to update it, you can do this:
POST /er/1
{"title": "Trip to NY 2010"}
If you want to approve it, you can do this:
POST /er/1/approval
{"approved": true}
But, what if you want to update the report and approve it at the same time? How do we do that? If you only wanted to approve, then doing a
POST to something like
/er/1/approval makes sense.
We could put a flag in the URL,
POST /er/1?approve=1, and send the data changes as the body, but that flag doesn't seem RESTful.
We could put special field to be submitted, too, but that seems a bit hacky, too. If we did that, then why not send up data with attributes like
set_title or
We could create a new resource for updating and approving, but (1) I can't think of how to name it without verbs, and (2) it doesn't seem right to name a resource based on what actions can be done to it (what happens if we add more actions?)
We could use a custom media-type,
application/approve+yes, but that seems no better than creating a new resource.
We could create a temporary "batch operations" url,
/er/1/batch/A. The client then sends multiple requests, perhaps
POST /er/1/batch/A to update, then
POST /er/1/batch/A/approval to approve, then
POST /er/1/batch/A/status to end the batch. On the backend, the server queues up all the batch requests somewhere, then processes them in the same backend-transaction when it receives the "end batch processing" request. The downside with this is, obviously, that it introduces a lot of complexity.
So, what is a good, general way to solve the problem of performing multiple actions in a single request? General because its easy to imagine additional actions that might be done in the same request:
- Suppress or send notifications (to email, chat, another system, whatever)
- Override some validation (maximum cost, names of dinner attendees)
- Trigger backend workflow that doesn't have a representation in the document.
Its also an issue of performance. HTTP calls hit the network (which could be a problem if you have high latency or a flaky connection), so the fewer of them you can make, the better.


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Hi, > Please do not move any of the CLISP-related work into private e-mail. > Remember, our private e-mail is not archived the same way the SF Ok, I understand. I'm starting to use the patches section of SF. > 3. please send the unified patches (-u); they are smaller and easier to read. ok. > > It causes me more work than if I throw all at once on you, but maybe > > it's better for discussion. > yes, please do keep the patches small. > your patch breaks FOREIGN-ADDRESS-NULL in foreign1.lisp, > but that's okay, I will fix that. Thanks. Actually, none of my patches really work, since they are fake diffs. The code worked as a module (as posted to the list), then I added lines by hand to subr.d, constsym.d, and copy&paste from the module to foreign.d and foreign1.lisp. I will not test every piece of a patch by seeing if CLISP still compiles -- every change to constsym.d needs recompilation, and we agreed on small patches. This is reserved for the end (fix typo and copy&paste bugs). Thanks again for smoothing things out. The typical "thanks, bug now fixed in CVS" reply says: >(be advised that between >releases the CVS tree is very unstable and may not even build >on your platform). This is exactly why I feel I must stay away from CVS. I feel a need for a stable platform. I just noticed I did too much copy&paste: constsym.d should contain LISPSYM lines, not LISPFUN. LISPSYM(exec_with_stack,"%FOREIGN-ON-STACK",ffi) Peter: sorry: LISPFUNN(mark_invalid_foreign,1) # { value1=T; mv_count=1; } broken { skipSTACK(1); value1=T; mv_count=1; } I'll send the the real thing to the patches section of sourceforge as soon as I beautify it. > BTW, could you please send me your spvw.d patch against the CVS? No yet rewritten. > > > please do submit your FFI testsuite. > are you sure you appended the whole patch? The part 1 which goes into foreign.d. -- any problems there? I never sent part 2 (foreign.tst) which still needs to be rewritten to use stable parts of the new FFI, not redefine-foreign-function history. Regards, Jorg Hohle.
> * In message <DFD875E85664D3118FA6080006277DE70582262B@...> > * On the subject of "[clisp-list] CVS and my set of patches" > * Sent on Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:26:49 +0200 > * Honorable "Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril" <Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle@...> writes: > > The typical "thanks, bug now fixed in CVS" reply says: > >(be advised that between > >releases the CVS tree is very unstable and may not even build > >on your platform). This is intended for the _users_. You are a _developer_. > This is exactly why I feel I must stay away from CVS. > I feel a need for a stable platform. this is not fair. this places too much burden on _me_. you are turning me into QA for your code, on platforms which I don't even have access to. > I just noticed I did too much copy&paste: > constsym.d should contain LISPSYM lines, not LISPFUN. > LISPSYM(exec_with_stack,"%FOREIGN-ON-STACK",ffi) this is ugly - C name too different from Lisp name. I changed that. unless you use the CVS, your future patches will not apply cleanly, thus causing much aggravation to both of us. > > BTW, could you please send me your spvw.d patch against the CVS? > No yet rewritten. please make it a priority: this is a bug fix, and as such it should come before new features. > > > > please do submit your FFI testsuite. > > are you sure you appended the whole patch? > The part 1 which goes into foreign.d. -- any problems there? I have no idea what you are talking about here. Sorry. I receive too much clisp mail to be able to track this down by hand. Your e-mail does not have references (this is Outlook fault, right?), so I cannot get the message you are replying to automatically, and its subject is not too informative. Please send the patch under discussion again. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.2 GNU/Linux <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> Winners never quit; quitters never win; idiots neither win nor quit.
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I also have interests in behavioral economics and psychology, particularly related to policy applications of behavioral research. I've conducted research on social comparisons, cultural diversity and discrimination, the relationship between competence and self-awareness and its implications for economic behavior, the design of experiments that more cleanly identify other-regarding preferences (as opposed to subject confusion that mimics other-regarding preferences), and children's non-cognitive attributes (e.g., time and risk preferences) and their role in affecting educational outcomes.
Ferraro, PJ, JJ Miranda. Working Paper. Panel data designs and estimators as alternatives for randomized controlled trials in the evaluation of social programs.
Ferraro, PJ, M Hanauer, D Miteva, J Nelson, S Pattanayak, C Nolte, K Sims. 2015. Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem servicesand poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Arriagada, R, EO Sills, PJ Ferraro, S Pattanayak. In Press.. Do payments pay off? Evidence from participation in Costa Rica's PES program. PLoS One.
McConnatchie, M, C Romero, PJ Ferraro, B van Wilgen. In Press, Partial identification improves the transparency and credibility of conservation impact evaluations. Conservation Biology.
Rasolofoson, R, PJ Ferraro, C Jenkins, J Jones. 2015. Effectiveness of community forest management at reducing deforestation in Madagascar. Biological Conservation 184: 271–277.
McConnachie, MM, BW van Wilgen, DM Richardson, PJ Ferraro, A Forsyth. 2015. Estimating the effect of plantations on pine invasions in protected areas: A case study from South Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 110-118.
Ferraro, PJ, M Hanauer. 2014. Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and Infrastructure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(11): 4332–4337. {Accompanying Perspectives article by A Agrawal}
Ferraro, PJ, J Miranda. 2014. The performance of non-experimental designs in the evaluation of environmental policy: a design-replication study using a large-scale randomized experiment as a benchmark. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 107: 344-365.
Ferraro, PJ, MM Hanauer. 2014. Advances in measuring the environmental and
social impacts of environmental programs. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 39: 495-517.
Bolsen, T, PJ Ferraro, JJ Miranda. 2014. Civic duty, political ideology and the effectiveness of norm-based approaches to environmental protection: evidence from a large-scale randomized policy experiment. The American Journal of Political Science 58(1): 17-30.
McConnachie, MM, BW van Wilgen, DM Richardson, PJ Ferraro, A Forsyth. In Press. Estimating the effect of plantations on pine invasions in protected areas: A case study from South Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Bernedo, M, PJ Ferraro, M Price. 2014. The persistent impacts of norm-based
messaging and their implications for water conservation. Journal of Consumer Policy (Special
Issue "Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer," eds. L Reisch & C
Sunstein)37(3): 437-452. Final
Fisher, B, A Balmford, PJ Ferraro, L Glew, M Mascia, R Naidoo, TH Ricketts. 2014. Moving Rio forward and avoiding ten more years with little evidence for effective conservation policy. Conservation Biology 28(3): 880-882.
Ferraro, PJ and M Price. 2013. Using non-pecuniary strategies to influence behavior: evidence from a large-scale field experiment. The Review of Economics and Statistics 95(1): 64-73, and NBER Working Paper 17189 [updated from previous 2008 and 2009 working papers, including Ferraro, PJ. Common Pool Management without Prices: A large-scale randomized experiment to test the effects of imperfect information and pro-social preferences. 5 Jan, 2009 at ASSA meeting] Data file [zip file with data file in stata .dta format]
Ferraro, PJ, JJ Miranda. 2013. Heterogeneous treatment effects and causal mechanisms in non-pecuniary, information-based environmental policies: evidence from a large-scale field experiment. Resource and Energy Economics 35: 356-379.
Ferraro, PJ, M Hanauer, D Miteva, G. Canavire-Bacareza, S Pattanayak, and K Sims. 2013 More strictly protected areas are not necessarily more protective. Environmental Research Letters.
Andam, K, PJ Ferraro, M Hanauer. 2013. The Effects of Protected Area Systems on Ecosystem Restoration: a quasi-experimental design to estimate the impact of Costa Rica's protected area system on forest regrowth. Conservation Letters.
Miteva, D, SK Pattanayak, PJ Ferraro. 2012. Evaluation of Biodiversity Policy Instruments: What works and what doesn't? Oxford Review of Economic Policy 28(6): 69-92.
Ferraro, PJ, K Lawlor, K Mullan, SK Pattanayak. 2012. Forest Figures: A review of ecosystem services valuation and policy evaluation in developing countries. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 6(1): 20-44.
Arriagada, PJ Ferraro, S Pattanayak, R, E Sills, S Cordero. 2012. Do Payments for Environmental Services Reduce Deforestation? A farm-level evaluation from Costa Rica. Land Economics 88: 382-399.
Ferraro, PJ. 2012. Experimental Project Designs in the Global Environmental Facility: Designing projects to create evidence and catalyze investments to secure global environmental benefits. (Global Environment Facility/United Nations Environment Programme, Washington, DC.)
Ferraro, PJ, MM Hanauer and KRE Sims. 2011. Conditions Associated with Protected Area Success in Conservation and Poverty Reduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(34): 13913-13918. (Selected from over 3,800 articles to win the 2011 Cozarelli Prize for article of "outstanding scientific excellence and originality" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Ferraro, PJ, JJ Miranda Montero, M Price. 2011. Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-based Policy Instruments: evidence from a randomized environmental policy experiment. American Economic Review: papers and proceedings 101(3): 318–22. [Zip file with Stata .dta data file]
Ferraro, PJ and MM Hanauer. 2011. Protecting Ecosystems and Alleviating Poverty with Parks and Reserves: 'win-win' or tradeoffs? Environmental and Resource Economics 48:269–28.
Andam, KS, PJ Ferraro, KRE Sims, A Healy, and MB Holland. 2010. Protected areas reduced poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(22): 9996-10001.
Pattanayak, SK, S Wunder and PJ Ferraro. 2010. Show Me the Money: do payments supply ecosystem services in developing countries? Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 4(2): 254-274
Pfaff, A, J Robalino, GA Sanchez-Azofeifa, KS Andam, and PJ Ferraro. 2009. Park Location Affects Forest Protection: land characteristics cause differences in park impacts across Costa Rica. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions) 9(2), Article 5.
Ferraro, P. J. (2009). Counterfactual thinking and impact evaluation in environmental policy. In Special Issue on Environmental program and policy evaluation, M. Birnbaum & P. Mickwitz (Eds.). New Directions for Evaluation 122: 75–84.
Andam, K.S., P.J. Ferraro, A. Pfaff, G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, and J. Robalino. 2008. Measuring the Effectiveness of Protected Area Networks in Reducing Deforestation: a rigorous impact evaluation approach. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(42): 16089-16094.
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Ferraro, P.J., C. McIntosh and M. Ospina. 2007. The Effectiveness of Listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: An econometric analysis using matching methods. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54(3): 245-261.
Sills, E.O., S. Pattanayak, P.J. Ferraro, and K. Algers. 2006. Abordagens Análiticas na Avaliação de Impactos Reais de Programas de Conservação. Megadiversidade 2(1-2): 39-49.
Ferraro, P.J. and S.K. Pattanayak. 2006. Money for Nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments. PLoS Biology 4(4):e105 (0482-0488).
Ferraro, P.J. 2005. Corruption and conservation: the need for empirical analyses. A response to Smith and Walpole. Oryx 39: 257–259.
Conservation Performance Payments
Arriagada, R, EO Sills, PJ Ferraro, S Pattanayak. In Press.. Do Payments Pay Off? Evidence from participation in Costa Rica's PES program. PLoS One.
Arriagada, PJ Ferraro, S Pattanayak, R, E Sills, S Cordero. 2012. Do Payments for Environmental Services Reduce Deforestation? A farm-level evaluation from Costa Rica. Land Economics 88: 382-399. [final published version has minor changes]
Jindal, J Kerr, PJ Ferraro, B Swallow. 2012. Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: Evaluating tradeoffs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor in rural Tanzania. Land Use Policy
Ferraro, PJ. 2011. The Future of Payments for Environmental Services. Invited article, Conservation Biology (25th Anniversary Issue) 25: 1134-1138.
Pattanayak, SK, S Wunder and PJ Ferraro. 2010. Show Me the Money: do payments supply ecosystem services in developing countries? Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 4(2): 254-274.
Jack,BK, Leimona, B, and PJ Ferraro. 2009. A Revealed Preference Approach to Estimating Supply Curves for Environmental Services: experimental field auctions and soil erosion control in Indonesia. Conservation Biology 23(3): 359-367.
Arriagada, R., E.O. Sills, S.K. Pattanayak, and P.J. Ferraro. 2009. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate participation in Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 28: 343-367.
Ferraro, P.J. 2009. Regional Review of Payments for Watershed Services: Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 28: 525-550.
Ferraro, PJ and H Gjertsen. 2009. A Global Review of Incentive Payments for Sea Turtle Conservation. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 8(1): 48-56.
Ferraro, P.J. 2008. Asymmetric Information and Contract Design for Payments for Environmental Services. Ecological Economics 65(4): 810-821.
Sills, EO, S Pattanayak, PJ Ferraro, and K Algers. 2006. Abordagens Análiticas na Avaliação de Impactos Reais de Programas de Conservação. Megadiversidade 2(1-2): 39-49.
Ferraro, P.J., T. Uchida and J.M Conrad. 2005. Price Premiums for Eco-friendly Commodities: Are 'green' markets the best way to protect endangered ecosystems? Environmental and Resource Economics 32(3): 419-438.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.D. Simpson. 2005. Cost-Effective Conservation When Eco-entrepreneurs have Market Power. Environment and Development Economics 10(5): 651-663.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.D. Simpson. 2005 "Protecting Forests and Biodiversity: are investments in eco-friendly production activities the best way to protect endangered ecosystems and enhance rural livelihoods?" Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 15(2): 167-181.
Ferraro, P.J. 2005. Guest Editorial: An Economist's Reflections on the 25th Annual Symposium for Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation: Empirical Program Evaluation and Direct Payments for Sea Turtle Conservation. Marine Turtle Newsletter 109: 2-6.
Nyhus, P.J., Osofsky, S. A., Ferraro, P.J, F. Madden, H. Fischer. 2005. Bearing the costs of human-wildlife conflict: The challenges of compensation schemes. In People and Wildlife: Conflict or Coexistence? (eds R. Woodroffe, S. Thirgood & A. Rabinowitz), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 107-121.
Ferraro, P.J. and A. Kiss. 2003. Will Direct Payments Help Biodiversity? Response. Science 299 (28 March): 1981-1982.
Ferraro, P.J., and A. Kiss. 2002. Direct Payments for Biodiversity Conservation. Science 298 (29 November): 1718-1719.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.D. Simpson. 2002. The Cost-effectiveness of Conservation Performance Payments. Land Economics 78(3): 339-353.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.D. Simpson. 2001. Cost-effective Conservation: a review of what works to preserve biodiversity. Resources 143:17-20. Reprinted in Resources for the Future Reader in Environmental Policy and Resource Management (2006), 2nd edition, edited by Wallace E Oates. Resources for the Future Press, Washington DC, pp.163-170.
Ferraro, P.J. 2001. "Conservation Performance Payments: efficient investments for ecoregion conservation." Sharing Across Boundaries (A Publication of the Conservation Strategies Unit of World Wildlife Fund) 3: 2.
Ferraro, P.J. 2001. Global Habitat Protection: limitations of development interventions and a role for conservation performance payments. Conservation Biology 15(4): 1-12.
Conservation Planning and Targeting
Naidoo, R., A. Balmford, P.J. Ferraro, S. Polasky, T. Ricketts and M. Rouget. 2006. Integrating Economic Costs into Conservation Planning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21(12): 681-687.
Ferraro, P.J. 2006. Integrating Biophysical and Economic Information to Guide Land Conservation Investments. In Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe, edited by Robert Johnson and Stephen Swallow. Resources for the Future Press, Washington, D.C., pp.267-290.
Ferraro, P.J. 2004. "Targeting Conservation Investments in Heterogeneous Landscapes: A distance function approach and application to watershed management. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(4): 905-918.
Ferraro, P.J. 2003. Conservation Contracting in Heterogeneous Landscapes: an application to watershed protection with threshold constraints. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 32(1): 53-64.
Ferraro, P.J. 2003. Assigning Priority to Environmental Policy Interventions in a Heterogeneous World. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22(1): 27-43.
Azzaino, Z., J. Conrad and P.J. Ferraro. 2002. Optimizing the Riparian Buffer: Harold Brook in the Skaneateles Lake Watershed, New York. Land Economics 78(4): 501-514.
Ferraro, P.J. 2002. The Local Costs of Establishing Protected Areas in Low-income Nations: Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Ecological Economics 43(2-3): 261-275.
Voluntary and Regulatory Approaches to Pollution Prevention
Uchida, T. and P.J. Ferraro. 2007. Voluntary Development of Environmental Management Systems: Motivations and Regulatory Implications. Journal of Regulatory Economics 32: 37-65.
Ferraro, P.J. and T. Uchida. 2007. Stock Market Reactions to Information Disclosure: new evidence from Japan's Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 8: 159-171.
Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Bolsen, T, PJ Ferraro, JJ Miranda. 2014. Civic duty, political ideology and the effectiveness of norm-based approaches to environmental protection: evidence from a large-scale randomized policy experiment. The American Journal of Political Science 58(1): 17-30.
Ferraro, PJ and M Price. 2013. Using non-pecuniary strategies to influence behavior: evidence from a large-scale field experiment. The Review of Economics and Statistics 95(1): 64-73,
Ferraro, PJ, JJ Miranda. 2013. Heterogeneous treatment effects and causal mechanisms in non-pecuniary, information-based environmental policies: evidence from a large-scale field experiment. Resource and Energy Economics 35: 356-379.
Castillo, M, PJ Ferraro, J Jordan, R Petrie. 2011. The Today and Tomorrow of Kids: time preferences and educational outcomes of children. Journal of Public Economics 95: 1377-1385.
Ferraro, PJ, JJ Miranda Montero, M Price. 2011. Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-based Policy Instruments: evidence from a randomized environmental policy experiment. American Economic Review: papers and proceedings 101(3): 318–22.
Ferraro, PJ and CA Vossler. 2010. The Source and Significance of Confusion in Public Goods Experiments. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions). 10(1), Article 53
Ferraro, PJ. 2010. Know Thyself: competence and self-awareness. Atlantic Economic Journal 38(2): 183-196.
Adji, A, J Alm, and PJ Ferraro. 2009. Experimental Tests of Ricardian Equivalence with Nondistortionary versus Distortionary Taxes. Economics Bulletin 29(4): 2556-2572.
Cotten, S., P.J. Ferraro and C.A. Vossler. 2008. Can Public Goods Experiments Inform Policy? Intepreting results in the presence of confused subjects. In Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods, edited by T. Cherry, S. Kroll and J. Shogren. Routledge, pp.194-211.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.G. Cummings. 2007. Experimental approaches to understanding inter-cultural conflict over resources. In Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics, edited by J. List. Edward Elgar, pp. 137-160.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.G Cummings. 2006. Cultural Diversity, Discrimination and Economic Outcomes: an experimental analysis. Economic Inquiry 45(2): 217-232.
P.J. Ferraro and L. O. Taylor. 2005. Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One? A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science. Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 4(1), Article 7.
Ferraro, P.J., D. Rondeau, and G.L. Poe. 2003. Detecting Other-regarding Behavior with Virtual Players. The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 51(1): 99-109.
Miscellaneous Publications and Research Reports
Tallis, H et al. 2014. Towards a diverse conservation ethic. Nature 515: 27-28.
Ferraro, PJ. 2014. More Nudging, Less Shoving on the Road to Sustainability. SNAP.is/Magazine. January 27.
Bolsen, T, PJ Ferraro, M Miranda. 2014. Those Who Vote are Also More Likely to Contribute to Other Public Goods. London School of Economics and Political Science, American Politics and Policy Blog. January 13.
Ferraro, PJ. 2013 Nature & Prosperity: the evidence we still need & the right questions to ask. SNAP.is/Magazine. October 9.
Zimsky, M, J Cavelier, PJ Ferraro, A Joshi, P Krishnan, J Mee, N Sekhran. 2012. Results of the GEF Biodiversity Portfolio Monitoring and Learning Review Mission, India: Enhancing outcomes and impact through improved understanding of protected area management effectiveness. Global Environment Facility-Secretariat, Washington, DC.
Ferraro, PJ. 2012. Experimental project designs in the Global Environment Facility: designing projects to create evidence and catalyze investments to secure global environmental benefits. Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Washington, DC.
Zimsky, M. PJ Ferraro, F Mupemo, J Robinson, and N Sekhran. 2010. Results of the GEF Biodiversity Portfolio Monitoring and Learning Review Mission, Zambia: Enhancing outcomes and impact through improved understanding of protected area management effectiveness. Global Environment Facility-Secretariat, Washington, DC.
Banzhaf, HS and PJ Ferraro. 2010. Taxing the other smoke: pollution. Op-ed article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 16 March.
Ferraro, PJ. 2010. País que preserva o verde enriquece. Revista Galileu. Popular article in July edition.
Wunder, S, S Wertz-Kanounnikoff, PJ Ferraro. 2010. Payments for Environmental Services and the Global Environment Facility: A STAP advisory document. Prepared on behalf of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Washington, DC.
Sutherland, WJ, WM Adams, RB Aronson, R Aveling, TM Blackburn, S. Broad, G. Ceballos, IM Côté, RM Cowling, GAB da Fonseca, E Dinerstein, PJ Ferraro, E Fleishman, C Gascon, M Hunter Jr, J Hutton, P Kareiva, P, A Kuria, DW Macdonald, MacKinnon, K, Madgwick, FJ, Mascia, MB, McNeely, J, Milner-Gulland, EJ, Moon, S, Morley, CG, Nelson, S, Osborn, D, Pai, M, Parsons, ECM, Peck, LS, Possingham, H, Prior, SV, Pullin, AS, Rands, MRW, Ranganathan, J, Redford, KH, Rodriguez, JP, Seymour, F, Sobel, F, Sodhi, NS, Stott, A, Vance-Borland, K & Watkinson, AR. 2009. One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity. Conservation Biology 23(3): 557-567.
Fisher, B, K Turner, A Balmford, R Brouwer, R Costanza, R de Groot, S Farber, P Ferraro, R Green, D Hadley, J Harlow, P Jefferiss, C Kirby, P Morling, S Mowatt, R Naidoo, J Paavola, B Strassburg, D Yu, M Zijlstra. 2008. Ecosystem Services and Economic Theory: Integration for policy-relevant research. Ecological Applications 18(8): 2050–2067.
Ferraro, PJ. 2008. Protected Areas and Human Well-being. In Economics and Conservation in the Tropics: A Strategic Dialogue.
Asquith, N., S. Wunder et al. 2008. Payments for Watershed Services: The Bellagio Conversations. Fundación Natura Bolivia: Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Arriagada, R., E.O. Sills, S.K. Pattanayak, and P.J. Ferraro. 2008. Evaluating Initiatives with Direct Conservation Payments: econometric analysis of the Costa Rican Program of payments for environmental services. Sylvanet 21: 24-31.
Ferraro, P.J. 2007. Performance Payments for Sea Turtle Nest Protection in Low-income Nations: a case study from Tanzania. January, National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, CA.
Albers, H.J. and P.J. Ferraro. 2006. Economics of Biodiversity Conservation in Developing Countries. In Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: new policy options, edited by M. Toman and R. Lopez. Oxford University Press, NY.
Ferraro, P.J. 2005. Contributing author to Chapter 6 of the Responses Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA). The MEA is a four-year, $21 million undertaking intended to produce a comprehensive view of the state and management of the planet's ecological resources.
Hartshorn, G., P.J. Ferraro, and B. Spergel. 2005. Evaluation of the World Bank – GEF Ecomarkets Project in Costa Rica. November, North Carolina State University.
Ferraro, P.J. 2005. Are We Getting What We Paid For? The Need for Randomized Environmental Policy Experiments in Georgia. Georgia Water Policy & Planning Center Working Paper #2005-022. [from 2001-2006, I also wrote another seven papers for the Georgia Water Policy & Planning Center (see www.h2opolicycenter.org)]
Ferraro, P.J. 2004. Direct Payments to Protect Endangered Ecosystems and Experimental Methods to Estimate Payment Costs. Prepared for the Twenty-First Biannual Workshop of the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), Hanoi, May.
Ferraro, P.J. 2004. Assigning Priority to Ecosystem Restoration Investments in Georgia's Chickasawhatchee Swamp. Georgia Water Policy & Planning Center Working Paper #2004-017.
Ferraro, P.J., and A. Kiss. 2003. Direct Payments for Biodiversity Conservation. Reprinted in the Himalayan Journal of Sciences, 1(2) (August) [originally published in Science]
Ferraro, P.J. 2001. Reconciling the Long-term Conservation Needs of Large Mammals and Local Communities: conservation performance payments. In Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a conservation assessment, eds., E. Wikramanayake, E. Dinerstein, and C.J. Loucks. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Lee, D.R., P.J. Ferraro, and C.B. Barrett. 2000. "Introduction: Changing Perspectives on Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment." In Tradeoffs or Synergies? Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment in Developing Countries, eds., D.R. Lee and C.B. Barrett. Wallingford, UK: CAB International, pp. 1-16.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.A. Kramer. 1997. "Compensation and Economic Incentives: reducing pressures on protected areas." In Last Stand: protected areas and the defense of tropical biodiversity, eds., R. Kramer, C. van Schaik, and J. Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 187-211.
Parks, P.J. and P.J. Ferraro. 1994. Invited review of "Introduction to Ecological Economics: with Gaylord Nelson, Herman Daly, and John Cobb, Jr." Society and Natural Resources 7: 196-198.
Ferraro, P.J., with R. Tshombe, R. Mwinyihali, and J.A. Hart. 1997. Projets Int¨¦gr¨¦s de Conservation et de D¨¦veloppement: un cadre pour promouvoir la conservation et la gestion des ressources naturelles. Wildlife Conservation Society Working Paper No. 6. Bronx, N.Y.: Wildlife Conservation Society.
Matteson, P.C., P.J. Ferraro and W.I. Knausenberger. 1995. Pesticide Use and Pest Management in Madagascar: sub-sector and programmatic environmental assessment. Washington, DC: EPAT/Winrock International Environmental Alliance.
Ferraro, P.J. and R.A. Kramer. 1995. A Framework for Affecting Household Behavior to Promote Biodiversity Conservation. Washington, DC: EPAT/Winrock International Environmental Alliance.
Ferraro, P.J. and R. O'Neill. 1993. "Women, Water, Fuel, and Forests." FOREM 16(2): 18-21.
Ferraro, P.J. 1992. Mixed Property Rights Regimes: effects on secondary forest ecosystem management. Report prepared for the USAID-funded Ranomafana National Park Project, Antananarivo, Madagascar.


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Professional Development Activities
How to access Perkins Funds for Professional Development
CCSF's Perkins CTEA program maintains funds for the professional development of career and technical education faculty. To apply, download
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Given the current budget constraints and
resulting limits on travel, we strongly encourage faculty to take
advantage of opportunities within the SF Bay Area. Requests for
professional development outside the region will be extremely
limited. These requests will be handled on a case-by-case basis,
must be critical to your program's advancement (e.g. required by your
accrediting agency/organization) and will be dependent on the approval
of college leadership.
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Please note: Faculty should submit applications at least 30 days in advance of the professional development activity. The Office of Career and Technical Education will respond to your request promptly and will award funds on a first-come, first-serve basis. In 2015-16, funds may not be available after April 1, 2016 and activities must be completed by June 30, 2016. Thank you for keeping these deadlines in mind when requesting funds for your Spring Semester and/or June activities.
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Upcoming Professional Development Activities:
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Mission Inn - Riverside
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June 20-24, 2016
June 27-July 1, 2016
In the tradition of MPICT, the Western Academy Support and Training Center (WASTC), at DVC, is offering two week-long ICT Professional Development (aka Faculty Development Week) opportunities this June - one in southern California at Coastline College (Garden Grove) and a second week up in the north at Sierra College (Rocklin). The training sessions are open to both CC and HS faculty/teachers. Professional Development credit hours are available.


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Cow and Calf Research and Teaching Unit
The SDSU Cow-Calf Research and Education Unit (CCREU) plays a key role in serving the needs of SDSU students and state beef cattle producers across the Upper Midwest. Students enrolled in numerous courses in the Department of Animal Science the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in beef cattle production at the facility. Furthermore, students with an interest in seedstock merchandising are able to gain firsthand experience with the promotion and sale of Angus and SimAngus cattle, as the class is responsible for the production of the annual bull sale held each spring at SDSU.
CCREU calves approximately 110 Angus and SimAgus females annually. In addition to courses, cattle from the CCREU are also used for the SDSU Little International, various 4-H and FFA activities, and Extension field days. Cattle produced at the CCRUE are also integral to the reserch conducted by SDSU faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate. Research conducted at the CCREU is focused on addressing production issues faced by beef producers across the region. Recent research activities have been largely focused on nutrition and reproduction. However, the research infrastructure of the new CCREU will far exceed those of the current facility thereby allowing researchers to greatly expand the types of research they are able to conduct. The new facility will be equipped with 48 state-of-the-art individual feeding units and eight watering units that will allow for the application of different dietary or water-borne treatments to cattle and recording of feed and water consumption on an individual basis. This new facility will strengthen SDSU's rank among the top universities in beef cattle teaching and research. Construction of the new facility is currently underway and is scheduled for completion in December of 2015.


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The Inn RIP
First Subo, now this?The rumors started swirling this afternoon, and the Star Tribune confirmed it: The Inn, which opened late last fall, is shutting its doors.
Co-owner Tim Niver told the paper that he doesn't blame the restaurant's tucked-away 10th Street at Marquette location, citing the long runs of former eateries that inhabited the space, Hell's Kitchen and Le Peep. (Though the space's former inhabitant, the well-reviewed Subo, also lasted less than a year.)
Niver acknowledged that business wasn't as good as they needed it to be and said he wasn't really sure why. The caliber of the food and drink certainly can not be blamed. Several items will be sadly missed, including the roasted red and yellow pepper salad, the house-pickled herring, the dinner roll (and the accompanying orange marmalade), the beef short ribs, and the Slim Shim cocktail.
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Why isn't there a Search button? It's actually disconcerting to simply hit the Enter key after I type in my search terms. It's like, "I'm hoping this will search, but I'm really not sure."
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If you enter some dummy search in the box, you'll be presented with the search results page. There you will find a search button at your disposal.
I don't feel that this is much of an issue really. It is a UI/UX design decision that was made because pressing enter after entering a search query actually is intuitive IMO. I have a feeling that people would agree with me on that.


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Sources: The Herald Sun (AU), Reuters
quote: But some would rather let the pair fight their war on the free market, spending their money on bettering their products, rather than trying to buy a victory by instead funneling that money to finance high-powered legal teams, an expenditure which would do little good for customers.
quote: Now I am definitely convinced that you are an Apple employee.
quote: The only reason this became a legal case at all was because Samsung blatantly ripped off the whole line of Apple products, from the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad. Deny it as you will, but that is what happened - and some funny evidence of this is the Samsung lawyers being unable to determine which was which.