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Thanks all. Katie I did have enough left for the border but did go buy some extra so I could put the binding on.
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Thanks all. Katie I did have enough left for the border but did go buy some extra so I could put the binding on.
PokerDiva, What a beauty! I know your print was a big one, but the colors in that print were so beautiful that you couldn't go wrong with it. I agree, it should definitely be put in a show. Thanks for the extra closeups for the quilting. It looks like every star is different. If you feel like it sometime, I would love to see some closeups of the back to see how the patterns look on the back, if they show up.
Sue, the back is a dark blue batik and the quilting doesn't show very well. I should say that Charismah, here on the board, quilted it and she did do each star different.
Wow Florence I love yours. I am still waiting on mine to come back from the longarmer. I thought she would be finished by now. SHe does have some health issues and that delays her sometimes. I was going to give her another week before I called her. I continue to pop over to this thread from time to time to see all of the progress.
Omg I love your quilt. I love batiks so I will do mine with them.
Welcome aboard tigertillman. I hope you share your blocks with the rest of us.
Where are the photos of your blocks? I would love to see them. I am presently doing a BOM on Carols group. I have had this book forever and with a little inspiration....well I'm just saying! Lol
We posted our blocks every Sunday. Some were scattered through the week though. There is no central place for the block pics. Sorry.


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First and foremost, what forum should posts about IDEs/compilers go? Here or API and Tools?
This IDE is really getting me frustrated. The problem I am currently having (and I am sure there will be more) is with this very helpful (sarcasm) and incredibly annoying pop up that shows every time I try to type something. I don't know what this is and I am struggling to find how to turn it off. I might be able to find it in the options dialog if I knew what it was called, but there is little to no documentation supplied with the Express version. I guess I would call it "Auto Complete", but that isn't a listed option.
What on earth was Microsoft thinking? This is the worst interface design I have ever seen.

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Many of you may have heard of deep-sea vent communities. This term commonly refers to areas around hydrothermal vents where warm mineral rich water gushes out of the earth, and chemosynthetic bacteria use H2S (hydrogen sulfide) to power an ecosystem which doesn't depend on light. But hydrogen sulfide is not the only potential fuel source in the deep sea, in some areas you have communities built around chemosynthetic bacteria which utilize methane (CH4). Here is a look at a methane community in the Black Sea scientists are particularly interested, not only for the methane seep but also because it occurs in the anoxic Black Sea. Other methane seeps are known from oxygenated waters in other parts of the ocean (e.g. the Gulf of Mexico or Oregon) but scientists feel these anoxic types may provide clues as to how life worked when oxygen (O2) was rare on our planet. The bubbles you see in the video are actually methane gas escaping from the sea floor.
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Use the below resources to answer the following questions
- What is one of the limitations to how high these "reefs' can grow? Why is this factor limiting?
- How does H2S oxidize CH4 in the absence of oxygen (O2)?
- How could these communities affect how much methane is released in to the atmosphere from the oceans? Explain your thinking.
- What affect do this microbial towers have on the carbon budget of the Earth? Explain your thinking.
Resources Cited
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6tORN44X58&feature=related Youtube by HERMESproject
- http://www.sciencemag.org/content/297/5583/1013.full
- http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/blacksea.htm
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1265934/
- http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/08_02/without_oxygen.shtml


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Ton of Airbornes and Marines in my area Targets too recently.
Crap, I went back to the Target I've been hitting the last 4 days for a McChewie and sure enough, they must have put a case or two out in the afternoon or early early evening. They had none in stockroom this morning.
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An avid marathon runner, Michelle Roberts' road to law school was filled with unexpected twists and turns. Yet nothing seems to slow her down.
While attending the University of Arizona, she majored in journalism but always planned on heading to law school after graduation. She interned with the Associated Press (AP) in college, never expecting to pursue journalism as a career. But once the AP offered her a full-time position that she couldn't resist, she committed to the profession. She covered a wide range of topics throughout her time with the AP and traveled frequently to report on breaking news.
Roberts was working as an editor in Arizona when Hurricane Katrina wreaked devastation in New Orleans, LA. The AP dispatched Roberts to cover the disaster's aftermath. After several trips to the city in 2005, she was asked to stay for a year to closely document recovery efforts. She fell in love with the city and the people with whom she worked there, despite the difficult nature of the project.
Afterward, Roberts moved to Texas, where her beat subjects included immigration. There, she found herself at a crossroads: pursue her dream of attending law school or give up on it all together. "I knew that I wanted to move to Los Angeles, to settle down and quit moving around, which is what I had done for the past 10 years." So pick up and move she did.
Once in Los Angeles, Roberts focused on Loyola as she narrowed her law-school choices down. "I knew the school had a long history of admitting minorities and women and it was focused on social justice," she said. These attributes sold Roberts, and her decision was made.
By her second year, she signed up for the LAWASIA moot court team, which is part of an international organization of lawyers' associations, individual lawyers, judges and legal academics from the Asia Pacific region. The LAWASIA organization hosts the competition in a different Asian country each year.
Roberts was one of three LLS students selected to participate in last year's LAWASIA competition in Seoul, South Korea. Loyola's team was the only American law school in the competition. Members argued an arbitration case about an international banana contract dispute. "We met law students and arbitrators from all over Asia, learned a lot about international trade and developed oral argument skills," she said.
Roberts' trip to South Korea was significant for another reason: She was finally able to visit family members whom she had never met before. It was a deeply personal experience that she will never forget. "Besides being great for my professional development, the trip was a really great experience for me personally," she said.
Roberts explained how she looked forward to the challenge of law school but never expected to make friends in the process. "People at Loyola are brilliant, yet so nice," she said. "I've been so impressed with the quality of people here. That is a value that really pervades this school. It's what makes it an exceptional place," she said.
Before starting her third and final year as a day student, Roberts spent the summer as a summer associate at Hogan Lovells LLP and developed a strong interest in litigation. She found that her background in journalism prepared her well for life in the courtroom. "Skills like writing, researching and thinking critically about the facts are very transferable skills," she said.
Her talents have not gone unnoticed; Hogan Lovells LLP has offered her a full-time associate position upon graduation. "I am so excited and grateful to have this opportunity. I really enjoyed working with the people there," she said. In the meantime, she is serving as an extern to the Hon. Arthur L. Alarcón, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Though her journey to law school took longer than expected, Roberts is happy with the path she chose. "Loyola was a good fit for me, and I'm so pleased with the decision I made," she said.
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A recent Buffalo News article about New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's shareholder activism through the state's pension fund mentions his interactions with the natural gas industry. According to the Buffalo News, DiNapoli "has been pressing natural gas companies involved in hydrofracturing to provide him with risks of their drilling practices, the kinds of chemicals used and to take into account community opposition to drilling plans." DiNapoli told the News he would continue this activism "regardless of what may still come to pass" as Cuomo poises himself to lift the fracking moratorium.
While the State's considerable investment in fracking companies puts the comptroller in a good position to "pull corporate strings" with these companies, these investments amount to New York State's use of public pension money to bankroll the risky and unpopular practice. Fracking, which in its high-volume and horizontal form is under a moratorium in New York, presents a significant risk to air and water, and has been questioned as a speculative bubble by insiders and energy analysts. Further, as pointed out in the New York Times, the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. F.E.C., which guaranteed corporations' right to make electoral expenditures with campaign treasuries (substantially financed by New York's and other public pension funds), raises the concern that public employees are being forced to fund pro-fracking lobbying via mandatory contributions to the Common Retirement Fund deducted from their paychecks.
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Rising dramatically out of the Pacific Ocean 535km southwest of the Costa Rican mainland, PARQUE NACIONAL ISLA DEL COCO (t 2258-8570 or t 2250-7295) is revered among divers, biologists and treasure-hunters. Gigantic waterfalls plunge off jungle-strewn cliffs straight into an underwater world that has made this national park a veritable "Costa Rican Galapagos". It's the only island in this part of the Pacific that receives enough rain to support the growth of rainforest and is home to 150 endemic species that are found nowhere else in the world, including the Cocos flycatcher and the Cocos gecko. In addition, more than 250 species of fish – including one of the world's largest concentrations of hammerhead and white-tipped reef sharks – patrol the surrounding waters. The rugged, mist-shrouded volcanic island itself appeared as "Dinosaur Island" in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jurassic Park: in the opening frames of the film, a helicopter swoops over azure seas to a remote, emerald-green isle – that's Coco.
Nearly 25 square kilometres in size, Isla del Coco is one of the world's largest uninhabited islands, yet few would be able to locate it on a map. Perhaps that's why pirates found it such a perfect hideout during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Legend has it the golden spoils from fruitful church-looting expeditions to Lima were buried here; known as the "Lima Booty", the stories sparked a frenzy of treasure-seeking missions. More than 500 tried their luck (and failed) before Isla del Coco was declared a national park in 1978, ending all gold-digging expeditions. Though evidence suggests that the island was known by pre-Columbian seagoing peoples from Ecuador and Colombia, in the modern age it was "discovered" by the navigator and sea captain Joan Cabezas in 1526. Attempts were made to establish a colony here in the early twentieth century, and nowadays wild descendants of the would-be settlers' pigs and coffee plants have upset the island's ecosystem.
Today, however, conservation is the order of the day on this UNESCO World Heritage Site, although illegal fishing, shark-finning in particular, within the 15km restriction zone is rife, and park rangers and marine organizations lack the resources to bring it under control. Despite this, Isla del Coco remains an increasingly coveted destination for experienced scuba divers. More than a thousand a year brave the gut-wrenching 32-hour boat journey from Puntarenas to spend a week or so moored in the island's sheltered harbour on live-aboard boats. The subterranean treasures range from underwater caves and technicolour coral reefs to schools of manta rays and, off the northeastern side of the island, the occasional whale shark. The real danger here, however, is not sharks but strong currents, and divers often wear gloves to grip onto rocks to stop themselves from drifting away. Water temperatures are a balmy 22–26°C and the best time of year for seeing sharks is the rainy season (May–Nov). Two sheltered bays provide access to the island itself, and during the day visitors can venture onshore to hike the steaming tropical forests.
Two diving companies make the trip year-round from Puntarenas: packages with Agressor (t 2289-2261 or US t 1-800/438-2628, w www.aggressor.com) start at $3600 for eight days, while Undersea Hunter (t 2228-6613 or t 1-800/203-2120, w www.underseahunter.com) runs similar expeditions, with ten-day trips from $4750.
For more information on the island, contact the Fundación Amigos de La Isla del Coco (t 2256-7476, w www.cocosisland.org), which was founded in 1994 to help preserve the unique terrestrial and marine biodiversity of Coco.
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Something I have never been able to understand is when people enjoy "calling" bad things on the horizon.
For example, Coco comes into a game and someone promptly says "We're gonna lose! I know it!" Why do people find an inherent need to tell everyone that they think the game is going down the tubes?
I get frustrated with Cordero as much as anyone, but am I the odd man out who actually hopes he does well?
I'm confused, maybe someone who seems to prey on disaster can help me out with this one?


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Prompted from discussion from my podcast with Mike Walton, the World Scout Crest Emblem raised more than an eye brow.
Let me give you some background (I am not going to rehash the discussion from the podcast, you can listen to it using the link on the left).
When I became a Boy Scout, I joined Troop 100 in Brunssum, Holland. A terrific Troop in the Transatlantic Council. The Troop was like every other Boy Scout Troop except for the fact that we lived in Holland and at our meetings every Thursday there were Scouts from Holland, Germany, Belgium, England, and Canada in attendance. They all met with their respective leadership, but we shared the same building and we met on the same night…. and we did many activities together. Most camp outs had an international flavor, although at 12 years old.. it all just seemed like a normal part of Scouting to me.
After a Scout completed an international event, camp out etc, he was presented with this little purple patch. Everyone in the troop was wearing it as were our "foreign" counterparts. I remember my Scoutmaster making a big deal about us "getting to wear" this patch, "The kids in the states" he would say don't get to wear one of these.
You see, from 1956 to 1991 the Boy Scouts of America used the World Scout Crest emblem as an award, presented to those Scouts and Scouters that participated in international events, councils were allowed to come up with their own requirements for the award, but by and large those Scouts that lived within the Transatlantic Council and Far East Council got the nod to wear it. In 1991 the Boy Scouts of America made it a part of the Uniform and the International Activity Patch replaced it as an award.
Scouts from all over the world have been wearing this little patch for years. In England the World Scout Emblem is the "joining" badge. I think this is fitting as once a Scout joins he is in fact joining the World Brotherhood of Scouting.
It's just a little patch, but from it's beginning it has been a symbol of a great movement, a movement of peace, adventure, life skills, citizenship, and the spirit of what can happen to this world if we all lived the Scout Oath and Law.
Part of our discussion since the show came out was the fact that we sometimes don't really do a great job of instructing our Scouts on why we wear the patches we wear. To most this little purple patch is just a part of the uniform, as much as the American Flag that is proudly worn on the sleeve. It is just there, we take it for granted that our moms sewed it on when we got our first blue shirt and it just has always been there.
That little purple patch ties us to the founder and to one another in the Brotherhood of Scouting. I for one will be taking a closer look at how I instruct my Scouts on important things like this.. I suppose since I have been wearing the World Scout Crest Emblem since 1978 I too have taken it for granted.. not any more.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
One Little Patch.. One Huge Movement
Prompted from discussion from my podcast with Mike Walton, the World Scout Crest Emblem raised more than an eye brow.


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i've been messing with eiffel for the past week or so.
i think i like it, but i'm not sure. it is a substantial improvement over C++, but i'm not sure that's saying much.
getting used to eiffel has proved unsettling. i know a lot of languages coming from various design philosophies, so i didn't expect that i'd find it so jarring. it made me very aware that the languages i use regularly sharing some level of algol blood all look like C to one degree or another (in terms of nomenclature and syntax). perl and python and c++ all look roughly like each other if you squint.
on the other hand you have languages like APL and J which are easy to accept on their own terms because they don't look like much like anything else: you expect they'll be different.
eiffel though occupies a curious position [1]: even though i have experience with pascal and it's ilk, i found myself fighting to write C code (or C++ or python or perl code) in eiffel. i guess i couldn't decide if i wanted to dislike the language because of its resemblance to pascal and it's pedantic attitude ( not quite all the power of C along with lots of padding and helmets and gloves and disclaimers ) or to think of it as a tool providing features which naturally lead to software-engineering best-practices (ie it's not just C for the complete klutz like pascal). i decided to try to adopt the idiom rather than trying to fight it (certainly i would scoff at anyone trying to write C code in lisp).[2]
so i think i like it. especially for writing any code which is complex enough that you would want to sit down and design. [3]
regarding different languages, i like lots of different ones. this is sometimes distressing because i feel i should have a favorite that is 'best' and that i use for everything. but that's dumb. some are useful for different things (matlab v C), and some are useful for the same thing (python vs perl). i think all other things being equal (and i have the choice) sometimes i just want to write something in python or lisp or C depending on my mood or for a change of pace. and i think that's cool
so observations about eiffel
arrays starting from 1? dammit i spent 10 years in school to learn
how to count from 0 and now you want me to count from 1? (matter of
taste, but dijkstra showed that counting from 0 is in general more consistent.
also screws with implementing numerical algorithms ;
going against common practice increases the possibility for confusion
though). (i bet there's some way to change this, since there is no
special array syntax)
this PROGRAM is do my_pants hmmm_some_iteration_might_be_nice iterate end -- huh yeah end -- programhuh? i thought we all agreed that cobol is silly.
(NB that code is a parody)
- one class per file? are you some sort of nazi?
- pre/post conditions - cool
- you don't need parens for an empty arg list in a funcall...uhh how am i supposed to know it's a funcall? maybe if i start all the function names with '&'
- !! is the new 'new' operator? so now you decide cobol *was* silly? also, saying bang-bang is fun.
- locals declared in separate section? you're not my real father! *run to room slam door* *CRY*
'functionname is do ... end'
oh so that's where all the extra understood verbs from latin ended up.
- /= is the new != ? 9 out of 10 cool kids agree: != is !=
- explicit short-circuit boolean ops ('and then', 'or else') interesting, but a bit chatty.
- := assignments: it's a pinky workout!
- the compiler is not the gcc (which we know and love).
- easy C usage ... cool
- hmm the docs suck (they aren't organized well)... i guess i need to buy the book.
'inspect foo when... when... else... end '
ohh someone had their thesaurus handy. (though the switch and case of C never made any particular sense to me)
- compilation looks at the entire program at once (which can do much better optimization of functions etc) -- yay, no more suffering the run-time inefficiencies of C to make writing code easier.
- no header files: but how am i going to remember the members of my class if i don't type them out twice?
- etc...
- i remember seeing a well circulated story on research showing that people find it easier to react positively towards visual representations of people if those representations are either completely unlike people or really close to people. however, those visual representations which occupy the middle ground of that continuum are more likely to elicit negative reactions.
- even though i still harbor some of the real-men-use-fortran attitude towards pascal, the punks in CS intro class who kept wanting to point out they knew C and complain that this is how things were done in C and why are we learning a useless language like pascal really annoyed the piss out of me: the class was in pascal, get over it.
people calling themselves software engineers should be beaten daily. also i'd love to hear this out of an architect, "i would use it for any bridge that is large enough that you'd actually want to sit down and design it on paper first". i'm not trying to make an analogy or a point about programming (i like to hack and i think its ok though somtimes i miss noticing when a hack is big enough to require some planning and i don't know off hand how to do it). i only want to say 1. software engineers don't take the PE test and 2. taking statements from one context and putting them into another is sometimes funny.
- i *heart* run-on sentences.


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A view of the fortification of the Bzovik monastery form the inside. As you can see, it's not the safest place, with a sign warning of falling bricks at the entrance. Luckily, I had no such problems :)
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 7D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.
Sun behind the Monastery
Second photo from the Bzovík Fortified Monastery in Bzovik. This time it's the remains of the main buildings inside the walls. I used double tonemaping on this one. It really works great on stone walls and similar structures.
HDR from 6 shots, taken with Canon 7D, with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod.


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…did not kill Philip Seymour Hoffman. He was dead long before that last needle punctured his vein.
Arguably before ANY needle delivered the addictive narcotic to his waiting brain, the long-since abandoned depot waiting for a bullet express train to crash full throttle through its inner cavity, horns blaring and metal shrieking to a deafening roar and then… dead silence. Once again. Like so often before. The depot being haplessly reconstructed, so in due time the scenario could be re-enacted. Once again.
Mass media just don't get it.
They never have. Countless celebrities have succumbed to alcohol and drug addictions, and countless more are succumbing as you read this. But the typical media response has been
Tsk, Tsk. What a shame. She (he) is such a "nice person."
The collective media dullards entice us to make allowances for the artistically-gifted personality, characterizing them as luminaries on a far higher plane than most, who need to occasionally partake of the dark side of life for inspiration or to feed their never-satiated inner muses. So the drinking and the drugs and the uncivilized outbursts are tolerated, even venerated, as potential fodder for their on-stage or on-screen lives, so long as… the celeb de jure is generally perceived as… (yes)
Until finally, much too late, the same media–though only for a moment–realize their own role in the artist's demise. Then they superficially bemoan
Tsk, Tsk. What a shame. She (he) was such a "nice person."
Schema theory explains that images and situations portrayed on television and film provide building blocks for how we, the audience, construct–and re-construct–our internal (cognitive) reality. Our reality about people, politics, tangible and intangible things, including our concept of the "the self," are made up mostly of a curious amalgamation of information bits about the things which we have been experiencing and observing since we arrived on the planet. As we learn more about anything we adjust the schematic references in our minds, or, in some cases, we adjust the incoming information to fit into the existing realities already present there, since the latter requires fewer processing resources (and less work!). This has been demonstrated by Rumelhart (1980) and others who have done extensive research using schema theory.
What's the take away for mass comm students?
I think most of my students don't believe they can make a difference in the field of mass communication. But I am increasingly driven to help assure them they definitely can and to motivate them to want to try because Christians in media, working through the power of the Almighty, CAN help us all to GET IT.
We have to make sure that the world GETS IT. Those who produce, direct, and appear in media must be willing to bring the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ to light in every performance, in every commentary, in every production, in every TV or movie scene. Christians have the truth about the Savior, and that is the only truth that will really set people free (John 8:31-32). The next generation–our current college students–are the ones who have to be "the light on the hill" that cannot be hidden (Matthew 5:14-16).
Being a "nice" person will NOT, in and of itself, bring one happiness in this life. Nor will it secure one eternal life with our Creator after all these perishable things which we see fade away and are gone forever (I Peter 1:17-25). Jesus Christ is forever (Hebrews 13:8). Only a personal relationship with Him gives us both lasting JOY now and LIFE in this dying world. More importantly, He offers us an eternal home in paradise with God the Father on that forever bright, Son-shining, everlasting day of eternal bliss which shall not fade away (Revelation 22).
Without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ we are ALL, sadly, Walking Dead.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. 3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Psalm 23, NASB)
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Software engineering is the creation of software using a process similar to other engineering disciplines. It allows for software to be reliable and developed within time and cost estimates. The software engineering curriculum prepares students for a career in reliable, economical software development.
Programming is only one phase (construction) of software engineering. There are many other aspects of the software engineering process, such as requirements definition, architectural design, and quality assurance, which need to be applied in order to develop reliable software on time and within budget constraints. The software engineering curriculum provides students a solid background in both the theory and practice of all phases in the software engineering process, beginning with their first course of study in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, and continuing to the end of the senior year.
Since software is a non-physical product developed and executed on computers, the software engineering curriculum has computer science as its primary engineering science. The computer science courses taken by software engineering majors include the study of algorithms, data structures, database concepts, computer architecture, programming languages and operating systems. Software engineering majors also complete important courses in other closely related fields, such as discrete mathematics, digital logic design, and engineering statistics.
Coverage of software engineering topics begins in a three-term introduction to software development during the freshman and sophomore years. This study continues with coverage of core software engineering areas in the junior year, including software requirements, software architecture, software design, software project management, software construction, software maintenance, software evolution, software quality assurance, and formal methods in software specification and design. All of these courses include individual and team projects relevant to that particular area of software engineering. These projects generally include both written and oral presentations, building upon a technical communication course which introduces the student to the skills necessary for this important aspect of being a software professional. Throughout the senior year, a capstone team project develops and delivers software for a "real-world" client, which is put on display locally at a public exposition.
Throughout society, software exists for a wide variety of application domain areas. Each student is required to take at least three courses in a particular application domain, so that RHIT software engineering graduates can more effectively apply the software engineering principles they learn to that domain area. Students can choose from a variety of domain areas, including engineering, scientific and commercial applications.
Courses in various computer science topics such as computer graphics, artificial intelligence, computer networks, computer vision, web-based information systems, and cryptography are among those available as advanced electives. In addition, free elective courses allow students to tailor their undergraduate education to their specific goals.
The department has its own local area network. This network is connected to the campus-wide network and the Internet. Laboratory machines are mostly Sun Ultra workstations. Software engineering majors have unlimited access to the department's laboratories. Software engineering students are frequently employed by the computing center as user consultants and by the department as system managers and course assistants.
The student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery provides seminars and other technical activities throughout the year. The national honor society in the computing and engineering disciplines, Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Tau Beta Pi, both have chapters at Rose-Hulman. Software engineering majors are also eligible to join the Order of the Engineer, which focuses on the ethical and professional responsibilities of an engineer, during the spring of their last year of study.
Software Engineering Program Educational Objectives
The software engineering program prepares its graduates for many types of careers in the computing industry as well as for graduate study in software engineering and in closely related disciplines. Within a few years after completing the software engineering degree program, our graduates will:
Software Engineering Student OutcomesBy the time students graduate with a Software Engineering degree from Rose-Hulman, they will be able to:
The Computer Science and Software Engineering faculty strives to maintain an open atmosphere that encourages mutual respect and support as well as learning and sharing of knowledge.
The software engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET,www.abet.org
Total credits required: 192
Summary of graduation requirements for the software engineering major
To complete the major in software engineering a student must complete the following:
All required courses listed by number in the schedule of courses above: CSSE120, CSSE132, CSSE220, CSSE230, CSSE232, CSSE304, CSSE332, CSSE333, CSSE371, CSSE372, CSSE373, CSSE374, CSSE375, CSSE376, CSSE477, CSSE497, CSSE498, CSSE499; MA111, MA112, MA113, MA212, MA275, MA375, MA381; PH111, PH112, CHEM111; RH 131, RH330; CLSK100.
One additional CSSE elective course except CSSE 325, CSSE 473, CSSE 474, and CSSE 479. In addition, use of CSSE 49x to satisfy the CSSE elective requires approval of the Director of Software Engineering or the CSSE department head.
A Domain Track set of courses. All of the courses for each of the Domain Tracks is listed on the CSSE website. That site also explains the procedures and deadlines by which a student must declare their Domain Track.
Four additional credits of courses offered by the Department of Mathematics excluding MA351 – MA356. The student's academic advisor must approve the course used to satisfy this requirement. Where appropriate, a course in the student's application domain track can be used to satisfy this requirement.
Four credits of science electives, which can be any CHEM, GEOL, PH, or AB courses not already required for the software engineering major.
Twenty-eight credits of additional courses offered by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; the distribution of these courses must meet the requirements of that department. Where appropriate, one or more courses in the student's application domain track can be used to satisfy part of this requirement.
Sufficient free elective courses to meet the minimum credit hour requirement of 192 hours for a software engineering major. These courses must have the approval of the student's academic advisor. Free electives may be selected from any Rose-Hulman course.
Area Minor in Software Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Shawn Bohner
Required Courses
CSSE 120, Introduction to Software DevelopmentCSSE 220, Object-Oriented Software DevelopmentCSSE 230, Data Structures and Algorithm AnalysisCSSE 371, Software Requirements EngineeringCSSE 374, Software Design
CSSE 120, Introduction to Software DevelopmentCSSE 220, Object-Oriented Software DevelopmentCSSE 230, Data Structures and Algorithm AnalysisCSSE 371, Software Requirements EngineeringCSSE 374, Software Design
Two additional courses in software engineering chosen from CSSE 372, 373, 375, 376, and 477.
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Your sure right about the fish moving out, spent 8 hours with Mike Z and his son Matt on the boat today and only managed to scrounge up a single bass in places that were outstanding a week ago. I can`t believe it could change so fast! I guess it`s time to start branching out.
|Good report, Sean....Best to stay in Rhody for a while with that plug rod. The canal is devoid of plug fish, a few can be had on flies.
Wow Sean!
Quite an exciting night, Hitting a deer is no fun at all. Lucky you could drive home, I have seen them do a lot of damage to a car.
A gull, a blue, a striper and a deer
Just a quick report on an interesting night in south county rhode island on friday into saturday.
Stopped by the saltwater edge to pick up my new van staal 200 and off to throw some pencil poppers at sachuest point to get used to the reel. Yeah , yeah not fly fishing but I do enjoy it and with a 4 year old who loves to fish I find myself fishing plugs a decent amount as he does not understand staying out of backcast lanes just yet. Anyway, after hooking a handful of blues I see a gull come screaming by overhead and hit the water. Did not think much of it until my line goes airborne and I am fast to a large gull. Luckily he just picked it up and the hooks did not get deep into him. Get my plug back and decide to move on.
Off to find some fly rod bass and I head over to one of Adrian's (and mine) favorite spots that a bunch of folks fished a few days before with slow reports. Well with the NW wind finally dying down things were on fire and I had the best night I have had this year numbers wise with fish up to 32" on rays' flies. Very good fishing and almost too easy...
With a newish born at home and sleep at a premium I cut out early ~1am to get some sleep. Coming through Jamestown I spot a streaking brown spot to my left and then I am fast into a deer. I end up landing the deer on my hood with a quick release to the side of the road. Lucky for me just some hood damage but the deer did take a couple bullets from the local police force. Now that I think about it I should have got its tail in exchange for my $500 deductible to get my hood replaced....
Anyway it looks like better numbers of fish are starting to come out of the bay which is nice. I do like fishing the home waters of the upper bay but it is nice to be able to spread things out and hit the surf again.
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So now its looking like Master Replicas will be making mini-replicas. There's no release date -somewhere around April is the time frame and a cost of $35-40 a pop. The first line will include lightsaber replicas of Mace Windu from "AOTC" Obi-Wan Kenobi from "TPM" and Luke's Jedi saber from "ROTJ"
Rebelscum just posted some small pics.
I like the idea -but then again, I really dont want mini-replicas I'd rather have the actual replica itself. I'm tempred though to get the Obi-Wan or Jedi Luke because I missed out on them.


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As rain falls Spokane River rises with sewage and storm water
SPOKANE, Wash. - As rain totals reach record levels for the month, all the water is causing sewage to spill into the Spokane River. It's something the city knows about and is working to change.
In parts of Spokane the sewage and storm water drain together to the wastewater treatment facility. When it rains more than a quarter-inch that sewage and storm water overflow into valves that spill into the Spokane River.
The thought keeps Bart Mihailovich awake at night.
"A couple years ago I went floating after a big (rain) event and you see brown stuff in the water and you smell it," he said.sewage overflow video
Mihailovich is a Spokane "River Keeper," a non-profit advocacy group that works to protect and restore the river. He's concerned about the number of recent overflows this month. On Wednesday 10 of the 22 combined sewage overflows, or pipes, were overflowing, "causing human health concerns, ecosystem concerns, and overall just smell and other issues associated with it," Mihailovich said.
The City of Spokane knows about the problem, and it's currently working to install large tanks to collect the overflow.
"The projects we're doing this year are part of that work and we've done projects in the past," City spokesperson Marlene Feist said. "We have tanks that are already online that we worked on last summer and prior to that."
The city is required by federal law to change the overflow system by 2017. The problem, the project will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
"We have seen some increases in sewer costs over the last couple of years to help pay for that. So far we haven't bonded for that work, but we could have to do that in the future," Feist said.
Mihailovich says he doesn't want anyone's rates to rise, but he also doesn't want anyone's sewage rising either.
"I'll definitely advise people not to swim or kayak or boat in the river after a big rain event," he said.
Both sides of the issue say this is not a problem unique to Spokane, and it happens in other cities. The federal law is designed to change that.
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11.9: Revolutions in Human Population Growth
Where on the graph are the major population changes?
Let's look at this graph again. It shows human population from 10,000 BC through 2000 AD. Where are the big changes in slope of the line? Can you identify them? In this lesson, we'll learn what causes them.
What Causes Human Populations to Grow?
Look at the graph above. Human population increased dramatically at certain times. The graph begins 10,000 BC, although you can't really see the line. Population starts to rise perceptibly at around 1800 BC. The numbers begin to rise dramatically about 200 years ago. What causes these changes?
Agricultural Revolution
Farming was developed about 10,000 years ago. Farming meant a steady supply of food. People could settle in villages. The rise at around 1800 BC is due to increased farming and the rise of cities and towns. The population rises steadily until around 1800 AD. At that time it shoots up dramatically. Really dramatically. What happened?
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is what happened. The Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s in Europe, North America, and a few other places. Before the Industrial Revolution most labor was done by people. The Industrial Revolution changed the source of power from humans to fossil fuels. This allowed more work to be done and more food to be grown. People began to move into cities.
Where the Industrial Revolution was taking place, the human population started to grow really fast. The birth rate was always high. What changed what the death rate. The population grew because more people stayed alive. The death rate fell for several reasons:
- New farm machines were invented. They increased the amount of food that could be produced. With more food, people were healthier and could live longer.
- Steam engines and railroads were built. These machines could quickly carry food long distances. This made food shortages less likely.
- Sanitation was improved. Sewers were dug to carry away human wastes (see Figure below). This helped reduce the spread of disease.
Digging a London sewer (1840s). Before 1800, human wastes were thrown into the streets of cities such as London. In the early 1800s, sewers were dug to carry away the wastes.
With better food and less chance of disease, the death rate fell. More children lived long enough to reach adulthood and have children of their own. As the death rate fell, the birth rate stayed high for awhile. This caused rapid population growth.
The Green Revolution
The most recent increase in the slope of the population line is because of another advance in agriculture. The Green Revolution began in the mid-1900s. The Green Revolution has allowed billions of people to be added to the population in the past few decades. New methods and products increased how much food could be grown. These advances include:
- Improving crops by selecting for certain genetic traits. The desired traits promote productivity. Recently, genetically engineered crops have been introduced.
- Increasing the use of artificial fertilizers and chemical pesticides (Figure below).
- Increasing the use of agricultural machinery: plowing, tilling, fertilizing, picking, and transporting. These machines are powered by fossil fuels, rather than humans.
- Increasing access to water. Many rivers have been dammed. Wells tap into many groundwater aquifers.
The Green Revolution has increased the productivity of farms immensely. A century ago, a single farmer produced enough food for 2.5 people, but now a farmer can feed more than 130 people. The Green Revolution is credited for feeding 1 billion people that would not otherwise have been able to live.
The Health Revolution
Health care has been improving over the most recent centuries. Vaccines were developed that could prevent many diseases (see Figure below). Antibiotics were discovered that could cure most infections caused by bacteria. Together, these two advances saved countless lives.
This child is getting a polio vaccine. She will never get sick with polio, which could save her live or keep her from becoming crippled.
- antibiotics: Medications that kill or slow down the growth of harmful bacteria.
- Green Revolution: Changes in the way food is produced since World War II that have resulted in enormous increases in production.
- Industrial Revolution: A time when mass production and fossil fuel use started to grow explosively.
- pesticides: A chemical that kills a certain pest that would otherwise eat or harm plants that humans want to grow.
- vaccines: A medication that increases the immune system's response to a disease.
- Farming allowed people to have a steady food source and settle down. The Green Revolution has dramatically increased agricultural productivity.
- The Industrial Revolution brought new machinery, increased the food supply and improved sanitation.
- Vaccinations and antibiotics have greatly improved human health.
- With a dramatically lower death rate, human populations have grown.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
Turning Points in History-Industrial Revolution at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Efq-aNBkvc (3:31)
- Where did most people work in the late 1700s?
- What did the new machines do?
- What became more affordable?
- Why did families move?
- Who were the workers?
- What problems did industrialization cause?
- Where were the worst conditions?
- Why were unions formed?
- When did the Green Revolution begin?
- Why is the Green Revolution important?
- How many people are added to the population every 14 years?
- What is needed to feed the growing population?
- What caused the first rise in human population?
- How has the Industrial Revolution altered human population numbers?
- How has the Green Revolution increased agricultural productivity?
- If the birth rate doesn't change but the death rate goes down, what happens to population?
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By Tiernan Ray
UBS's Eric Sheridan today cut his rating on shares of Yelp (YELP) to Neutral from Buy, while raising his price target to $40 from $32, writing that it is "one of the best positioned businesses within our coverage universe in terms of key secular themes (social, local, & mobile)" but that the stock is fairly valued at 7 times enterprise value as a multiple of sales, 46 times enterprise value as a multiple of Ebitda, and 55 times cash flow.
The stock today is down 82 cents, or 2%, at $38.58.
Sheridan actually has several favorable things to say about the company's products, including a new "Platform" initiative:
On July 9th Yelp introduced Yelp Platform, adding a consumer purchasing capability to the site. This pivot toward becoming a more transactional eCommerce platform will begin with just food delivery services, limited to San Francisco and New York. We view Yelp's entry into local eCommerce as a bullish development, as this pivot expands the company's TAM to include consumer purchases (vs. previously addressing local merchant advertising budgets). Specifically, this initiative adds high margin, fee-based revenues, which are likely to be accounted as part of the "Other Services" bucket within the company's reporting structure.
He likes a recently introduced advertising feature, "call to action":
Yelp's management has stated that more clearly communicating the value of the company's services to local business owners is a key priority for 2013. Aligned with this statement, Yelp rolled out the "Revenue Estimator Tool" in March, and more recently introduced its "Call to Action" feature (available on both desktop and mobile as of June 18th) […] Yelp's "Call to Action" feature is available only to businesses that have purchased one of Yelp's advertising packages, and thus will not directly contribute to increased revenue in the near-term. That said, we believe that the new feature could enhance the value of Yelp's advertising packages, leading to increased close rates and customer retention levels.
Sheridan raised his revenue estimate for next year to $340 million from a prior $322 million, above consensus of $314 million, and raised his Ebitda estimate to $52 million from $47 million, and above the average estimate of analysts of $50 million.


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Teaching and Learning Information Literacy Skills
Teaching & Learning
Information Literacy Skills:
Textbooks for Students &
Books for Instruction Librarians
This annotated bibliography of information literacy textbooks is produced by the ACRL Instruction Section Teaching Methods Committee. Listed textbooks are suitable to use as an assigned textbook for a semester-long library/research skills course. In addition to textbooks for students, there are books listed to help someone design his or her own library/research skills course. Paired with each citation is a list of published reviews including reviews authored by committee members.
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I would like to use the Dropline Etiquette icons on Debian-BR-CDD Project, but its license is not DFSG compatible. So, is very common people asking about why CCs aren't DSFG compatible. The first step to understand it is, of course, reading the DFSG and CCs. But if you want a quickly way to know about CC and DFSG, take a look at debian-legal Summary of Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses.
Anyway, I've sent a email for the Dropline author asking for a possible changing in their license to a DFSG compatible, maybe following these debian-legal recomendations:
" Authors who use or are planning to use the Attribution 2.0 license should consider a similar Free Software license such as a BSD- or MIT-style license [BSD], [MIT]."
"Authors who use or are planning to use the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license should consider a similar Free Software license such as the GNU General Public License [GPL]."
Now I'm waiting...
After debconf5 arriving I couldn't sleep very well, so I woke up really early and I wrote a cool macro for Trac environment that you can see here.
Anyway, some examples of usage:
Giving a maintainer mail address: [[debianBTS(email@example.com)]] Giving a bug number: [[debianBTS(311091)]] Giving a package name: [[debianBTS(bbclone)]]
/CONNECT irc.debian.net
/JOIN #debconf
Photos: www.debconf.org/gallery/debconf5 mail jon at ivt.com.au for login
Schedule: www.debconf.org/debconf5/about/schedule
AdHocBoFs/Networking/Printing info on wiki.debian.net/?DebConf5
Reception: +358417816305 (24h/day)
Webcam: naru2.oldskool.fi/~webcam
Video: wiki.debian.net/?DebConf5Vid
The Group photo: ajt.iki.fi/debconf5
I've notice that php xml-rpc is vunerable, where a machine can be explored easily as listed here
ewiki users, please update your php xml-rpc. Wordpress users, don't worry, be happy :o)
Wow! See this video and enjoy this beautiful scene. It was made in Helsinki Sea Life, Jul 2005, by myself. If you know details about this animal please let me see, I forgot to take notes there.
So, I have to admit, I use MacOS sometimes :o) And sometimes I learn interest things. Do you know podcasts? Yeah, of course. I'm always the last to learn about these technologies. Eureka! Now I can pratice my (bad) english by listening the podictionary while I'm driving. It's amazing!
You (and me) can use ipodder software to listen podcasts in GNU/Linux (ok, you already know that...)
I arrived in PoA yesterday to FISL 6, wich starts in June 1. I can see the hard work to organize one of the most meetings of free software and I hope help in somethings. A lot of PSL-BA people are here. Until now we have Valessio, Tassia, Humberto, Leo, Lucas, Carol, Aurelio, me and more...
This is a special moment for Debian, which intends to release Sarge soon, maybe in June 6. We are organizing a party for it in its stand.
We bring 100 Debian-BR-CDD t-shirts to sell there... help us! :o)
Today I was a good guy. Bugs 304664 and 309103 were closed. As I said before, I'm working in ptbr CDBS doc translation, and today was a good day for it.
I applied the patch sent by Regis in mozilla-locale-ptbr deb. This is a debian package maintened by Debian-BR packaging team. So more a closed bug today :o)
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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Ok so a friend wants a live planted tank with driftwood and red aquarium fish. It's a 29 gallon that's been established for about 8 months. Any ideas? Btw these fish must be drawf gourami compatible because there's already some drag fire gouramis in there.


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I don't believe there is a more liberal senator in Washington than Al. Taxes will be uncontrolled. The best thing to do now is quit working get on the gov dole and spend time with our dogs.
I don't believe there is a more liberal senator in Washington than Al. Taxes will be uncontrolled. The best thing to do now is quit working get on the gov dole and spend time with our dogs.
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about them. Albert Einstein
Those without dreams won't go the extra mile
Jesse is a heck of alot better then Franken will ever be...
What, no congratulations to the legally elected Senator of Minnesota? I am disappointed. Maybe Coleman just needs to take that birth certificate angle on this to be successful.
Senator Al Franken. Born in Minnesota, well educated, and a successful career and family man. He legally beat a one-term Senator who lost the Governor's race to Jesse Ventura. Yes, Minnesota will have to deal with this tragedy.
I supposed we could have hoped for the likes of Senator David Vitter, Senator John Ensign, former Senator Larry Craig (I hear he used to like our airport), or someone like former Congressman Mark Foley but Minnesotans will have to take Senator Al Franken for at least a term now.
On a related subject, have you all seen this Governor Sanford campaign ad from 2002? http://www.politico.com/blogs/annesc..._.html?showall
It is quite interesting given his circumstances today. Isn't it.?
think I just threw up a little in my mouth....
Jesse had a chance to enact some real positive change and he totally hosed it. He had an entirely new base so jazzed up he could still be Gov. His problem was one to many pratfalls gone bad in the ring. It turned him into a spinless wimp who wussed out whenever someone said boo to him. His actions set back 3rd party politics years. Total waste of 4 years.
Franken, who knows. All we can do is hope for a middle road approach now tht he is in DC. If he wants 2 terms, he will need to be very aware of those that did not vote for him. And he can't be any worse than Coleman. He should never have given up the Mayor's position, he was good at that.
Never trust a dog to watch your food!
Never trust a dog to watch your food!


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- Major hotel companies are starting to offer multiple hotel brands in one location
- Offering two or more of their brands in a single location cuts costs for hoteliers
- Consumers may benefit from expanded access to amenities
When Marriott opened its new 68-story hotel overlooking Central Park in New York City back in January, it became the tallest hotel in North America.
But its impressive stature wasn't the only thing distinguishing the hotel, it also became one of the growing number of dual-branded hotels cropping up in cities across the globe.
A dual-branded hotel -- or "two-pack" as it's called in the industry -- is a property that contains two different hotel brands from within the same hotel family in a singular location. At the aforementioned Marriott in Midtown Manhattan, for example, guests can stay at either the Courtyard hotel occupying floors 6 through 33, or at the Residence Inn found on floors 37 through 65.
"Either brand could have done fine on its own here," said Marriott's CEO Arne Sorenson at the hotel's ribbon cutting, "but this gives us the opportunity to tap into two distinct types of customer feeds."
"Instead of filling up its 639 rooms with just one brand, we can fill it up with two," said hotel developer and owner Harry Gross.
The possibility of attracting different target demographics is one of the advantages spurring this growing trend. It's also cheaper for hoteliers.
"Dual-branded hotels are designed to maximize resources while minimizing costs for owners and developers," said Ian Carter, the president of global development for Hilton Worldwide.
"The most notable benefits to hoteliers are the operational efficiencies and cost savings gained by combining certain areas of the hotel, such as laundry, storage, and employee facilities, and combining the roles of various team members," Carter said. "Owners can also save money on the land costs, since the model has a smaller footprint."
Another advantage is the increased possibility of travelers experiencing new brands and becoming loyal, long-term customers.
The benefit for guests? Choice.
"The biggest benefit for guests is the added element of choice they receive. Dual-branded hotels can provide more robust amenities than they may be able to individually," said Chris Walker, the vice president of brand experience for Hyatt Place and Hyatt House.
For instance, when Choice Hotels International developed its dual-branded Sleep Inn and MainStay Suites concept, the first of which was introduced in Port St. Lucie, Florida, they opted to go with the Sleep Inn's heartier, expanded offerings when it came to choosing which free breakfast guests of the property would receive.
Of particular interest to groups and business travelers at the combination Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites that opened in Bossier City, Louisiana, in 2013 is the nearly 9,000 square feet of onsite meeting space, a feature anyone staying at a Homewood Suites typically wouldn't be able to take advantage of.
Another example of the multi-branding concept can be found at the bustling L.A. Live complex in downtown Los Angeles. It features an 879-room JW Marriott and a 123-room Ritz-Carlton, along with some residential Ritz-Carlton units, and has proved so popular that Marriott has built another dual-branded hotel directly across the street.
The new site, which opened May 29, contains a Courtyard and a Residence Inn, giving visitors even more options and flexibility. Guests of the Courtyard and Residence Inn get unique perks like signing privileges at any of the adjacent Ritz-Carlton's and JW Marriott's restaurants.
While dual-branded hotels are the norm, properties flying three or even four different flags are popping up in some destinations with the appropriate market demand.
In Canada, for example, Hilton is building a three-pack complex at the Calgary airport, which they're referring to as a "hotel village," that will combine a Hilton, a Hampton and a Homewood Suites. Properties combining different brands from different hotel families are also starting to make their way onto the scene, like the one in the River North neighborhood of Chicago that features one entry each from Starwood, Marriott and Hyatt.
With multiple hotels in one place, one might expect there could be a bit of brand confusion among the guests, but developers insist they are careful to maintain each brand's unique identity.
"While there are various shared public spaces, each hotel still has its own front desk and lobby space, so the individual brand check-in experience is the same as any other hotel within that brand," said Hilton's Ian Carter.
"It is critical that we have clear identities," said Hyatt's Walker. "Even though the brands are placed next to each other, we are fully committed to preserving the key guest experience elements for which each brand is known."
In fact, some hotels don't even advertise the fact that they are a multi-branded property, so a guest who books a room online at, say, the Westin resort in the ski village of Changbaishan, China, may not even know there's a Sheraton on the same spot until they arrive.
Whether travelers are aware of the concept or not, multi-branded hotels are only expected to continue to grow in popularity, as the potential benefits for hotel owners and developers can't be denied.


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Family: Vespertilionidae, Vespertilionid Bats view all from this family
Description Similar to the Big Brown Bat, but smaller, with reddish to dark brown fur above and somewhat paler below. The ears are blunt and rounded, with a tragus that is short and curves forward. Forearm 34-37mm. They forage over water at dusk and into the early evening. Common in buildings and other man-made structures.
Dimensions 83-96mm, 35-40mm, 9-14g
Warning Bats are susceptible to rabies, a serious viral disease that results in death if untreated. Rabid bats rarely attack humans or other animals, but bats found lying on the ground may be rabid. Never touch or pick up any bat. Stay away from any animal that seems to be acting strangely and report it to animal-control officers. If you are bitten by a possibly rabid animal, you must immediately consult a doctor for a series of injections; there is no cure once symptoms emerge.
Breeding Males remain in the southern part of the range, with only the females moving north to form maternity colonies of 30 to several hundred individuals and their young
Habitat Alpine & subalpine habitats, Forests & woodlands, Grasslands & prairies, Meadows & fields, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Cities, suburbs & towns
Range Plains, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas
Discussion One of the few bats that does not use caves, the Evening Bat apparently migrates southward to overwinter, rather than hibernating.


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It's a down day for stocks, but Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) was recently outpacing the rest of the market, dropping 8.5% at recent check.
Earlier today Alcatel said it planned to eliminate 10,000 jobs, or about 15% of its global workforce, as part of its turnaround plans, announced this summer. The majority, 4,100 of those jobs, will come from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (including 900 in Alcatel's native France); 3,800 will be in the Asia-Pacific region and 2,100 in the Americas.
Nomura's Stuart Jeffrey, who raised his target price on the stock yesterday, put out another note, addressing the news. He writes that the move isn't a surprise, given the company's previously announced cost-cutting plans, although his estimates are slightly more aggressive than Alcatel's forecast as he sees higher revenue growth easing pressure on cost cutting measures.
He expects that that most of the job cuts will go through, although workers in France are appealing the company's decision.
Jeffery reiterated his Buy rating, citing healthy revenue forecasts into 2015, revenue shift-mix to higher-growing areas, product redesigns, and the potential disposal of its enterprise and wireless activities, "that likely addresses balance sheet concerns while also boosting the underlying margin potential of the company."


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Alternate name: Stinking Dog Fennel, Stinking Chamomile
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description Introduced annual herb.
Habit: erect, branched stems, green becoming red; holding ferny foliage with a strong foul smell; taproot.
Height: 4-36 in (10-90 cm).
Leaf: alternate, very fine, feathery, compound; each blade to 2.5 in (60 mm) long and 1 in (25 mm) wide.
Flower: daisy-like, terminal, 3/4-1.25 in (18-35 mm) wide; 10-16 oval white rays, 3 small teeth; around a domed yellow center, 1/4-1/2 in (5-10 mm) wide.
Fruit: tiny dry seed, wrinkled and bumpy, 1/16 in (1-2 mm) long.
Warning The foliage that may cause skin irritation if handled.
Flower April to October.
Habitat Disturbed sites, clearings, fields, roadsides.
Range Native to Europe; introduced as an ornamental; now naturalized throughout North America, except for arctic Canada; found in all 50 states of the U.S.
Discussion Also known as: dog-fennel, mayweed chamomile, stinking chamomile, stinkweed. This plant is considered weedy and/or invasive throughout North America. It can cause severe dermatitus in humans, and the leaves are unpalatable to livestock.


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Decerebrate posture is an abnormal body posture that involves the arms and legs being held straight out, the toes being pointed downward, and the head and neck being arched backwards. The muscles are tightened and held rigidly. This type of posturing usually means there has been severe damage to the brain.
A severe injury to the brain is the usual cause of decerebrate posture.
Opisthotonos (a severe muscle spasm of the neck and back) may occur in severe cases of decerebrate posture.
Decerebrate posture can occur on one side, on both sides, or in just the arms. It may alternate with decorticate posture. A person can also have decorticate posture on one side of the body and decerebrate posture on the other side.
Conditions related to decerebrate posture need to be treated right away in a hospital.
Abnormal posturing of any kind usually occurs with a reduced level of alertness. Anyone who has an abnormal posture should be examined right away by a health care provider.
The person will need emergency treatment right away. This includes breathing assistance and placement of a breathing tube. The person will likely be admitted to the hospital and placed in intensive care.
Once the person is stable, the health care provider will obtain a complete medical history from family members or friends and do a more complete physical examination, including a brain and nervous system assessment.
Family members will be asked questions about the person's medical history, including:
Tests may include:
The outlook depends on the cause. There may be brain and nervous system injury and permanent brain damage, which can lead to:
Mayer SA, Badjatia N. Head injury. In: Wolfson AB, Hendey GW, Ling LJ, et al, eds. Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2009:chap 70.
Brust JCM Coma. In Rowland LP, Merritt HH, eds. Merritt's Neurology. 12th ed. Baltimore, Md: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2009:chap 6.
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Sevier age thrust fault at Ketobe Knob on the south side of Cedar Mountain in the San Rafael Swell, southeast of Cleveland, Utah. This is the iconic outcrop of the second major structure/geologic mapping project of the Fort Hays State University Geology Summer Field Camp. For more information about our field camp see...


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A local News station ran this story a couple of weeks ago. I think the timing had a lot to do with the recount. It's about a remodel done on Norms house. I did a lot of the work on it. Jim Taylor is a friend of mine and I know Shari pretty well. I don't believe anything was going on. They make it sound like because it went over budget he must have taken money illegally. Almost every high end remodel goes over. I done a lot of the kitchen and the upstairs bedrooms and baths. The Colemans are very nice people.
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Architect-designed bus stops in San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas are adding a bit of design to street corners.
Architect-designed bus stops in San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas are adding a bit of design to street corners.
Miró Rivera Architects' Chinmaya Mission Austin is a Texas Society of Architects 2015 Design Award winner.
Miró Rivera Architects' F1 Tower is a Texas Society of Architects 2015 Design Award winner.
Miró Rivera Architects' Vertical House is a Texas Society of Architects 2015 Design Award winner.
Austin-based Miró Rivera Architects designed a sustainable and economical building, full of natural light, for the not-for-profit LifeWorks in East Austin.
Miró Rivera Architects' LifeWorks building in East Austin stands out as a powerful example of elegance and sustainability meeting a very tight budget.
An iconic red, tube-steel tower presides over the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) — Austin's new Formula 1 track/performance venue by Miró Rivera Architects.
Four Texas firms are among a nationwide total of nine that were chosen Jan. 30 as semifinalists for the Waller Creek Conservancy design competition, from a pool of 31 entries. The competition calls for a redesign of a 1.5-mile stretch of city parkland and urban space along Waller Creek in downtown Austin.
The design initiative by Miró Rivera Architects proposes a series of activity zones for a segment along the Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail in Austin where the trail extends underneath heavily trafficked Mopac Expressway (Loop 1).
Thirteen projects were selected for 2010 AIA Houston Design Awards. The jury – Brian Johnsen of Johnsen Schmaling Architects in Milwaukee, Wis.; Juan Miró, AIA, of Miró Rivera Architects in Austin; and Amanda Kolson Hurley, executive editor of Washington, D.C.-based Architect magazine – met Feb. 26 at the Architecture Center Houston to review 132 entries from 59 local firms. Awards were presented March 25 at the Rice Hotel in Houston.
As one of two Miró Rivera projects selected for Design Awards this year, the renovation of this 1940s house required a fine balance between modern updates and traditional aspects of the original design.
An assemblage of 49 Corten steel plates arrayed in a coil-like shape, Miró Rivera Architects' Trail Restroom is a captivating work of brutal simplicity.
Miró Rivera Architects' Pedestrian Bridge was among three projects receiving top tier recognition in the 2006 The Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture. Considered the best international award for young architects, the annual program celebrates the work of designers under the age of 45 who are at the start of their independent careers.
With the delightfully unexpected and resourceful use of materials, Miró Rivera Architects has designed and supervised construction of a footbridge over an inlet of Lake Austin that pays homage to the site's sensitive wetlands. The footbridge is the firm's third completed project of a master plan for an eight-acre lakefront site that includes a three-acre inlet/lagoon. Preceding the bridge were a boat house and a guest house, with the main house planned as the next – and largest – component of the complex. Half of the residential site is designated as wetlands that serve as a migratory stop for egrets, cranes, and swans, and as such the site is regulated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Evangeline Lilly In Early Talks For Female Lead In Marvel's 'Ant-Man' Movie
Former LOST star Evangeline Lilly could soon be blowing up in the size-changing world of Marvel's Ant-Man movie. According to Variety, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug star could follow Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and Michel Pena as an official cast member, although her specific role hasn't been announced. The "insider" word is that Lilly's character could be Pym's daughter and Lang's love interest. If true, that could mean a dramatic reworking of Janet Van Dyne's character -- a founding member of The Avengers who has until now been left out of the Marvel movie universe. Of course, it could be an original character and Janet could remain left out of Ant-Man's movie lore.


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Ya know JT, I went through that about three years ago. I was just not happy with the vast majority of my collection and didn't like much of anything coming out. So I boxed it all up and sold about 90 percent of it on E-bay.
About six months later, I decided to start again, but now I collect only loose figures, and only ones I want, AND only ones related to specific topics.
I found that the short break, combined with re-starting with more of a focus helped me to enjoy it again (even more so than I had in the past) and actualy made it a little more challanging.
Sometimes a break dosn't hurt.
. . . and it's a lot easyer to stand them back up when my wife bumps into the book case.


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