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CHICO, CA - (April 17, 2012) – Klean Kanteen, maker of the first BPA-free metal bottle designed for personal hydration and a leader in solutions for eliminating waste from single-use products, announced today that Scott McGuire will serve as the company's Director of Sales.
As an industry veteran, McGuire brings over twenty years of experience in the outdoor and consumer products industry, working with the smallest start ups at ground level (Keen, Ahnu), as well as strong mid level organizations (Deckers with Teva, Simple, Ugg), and most recently served as the Director of Equipment at The North Face.
In partnership with Jim Osgood, Klean Kanteen's President, and the rest of its Executive Team, McGuire's new role will focus on creating and driving a strategic global sales vision for the ever-expanding company. Managing international sales functions and organization, as well as global strategic partnerships, key accounts, and brand development at retail will all fall under that umbrella.
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"The priority for me in my first year, has been to invest in innovative, new designs that replace single use items. Our mission is to make our products so simple, practical and with outstanding performance that we inspire the world to reach for a reusable Klean Kanteen solution instead of anything that is single-use," stated Osgood. "Finding the right sales director to contribute to that innovative development while also leading strategic international growth was a challenging niche to fill. We are confident that Scott can drive our brand to a new level and are excited to have him as the newest addition to the Klean Kanteen family."
If his work resume isn't impressive enough, McGuire also excels off the clock. At the age of 17, he sailed across the Atlantic and later became the first person to kayak the entire length of the Sea of Cortez. During over 2000 days logged on the water, Scott experienced the hazards of single use products first hand due to the ubiquitous presence of plastic bags and water bottles on every body of water he paddled.
"What drew me to Klean Kanteen was the people and passion for the brand," stated McGuire. "The commitment to the highest standards of practice and the way in which the team interacts is inviting and inspirational. Klean Kanteen feels at once like the incredibly rare and comfortable environment of connection and common purpose. As we move forward, I am energized by the potential for Klean Kanteen to further its initial impact in bottles, as well as develop new channels and products that give the consumers an alternative to the wasteful practice of disposable plastic."
Since it was founded in 2004, Klean Kanteen has seen incredible growth due to the rising awareness of everyday toxins such as BPA and the environmental hazards of single use products. As an industry leader and solutions-based innovator, Klean Kanteen is striving to change the way we eat and drink. For more information on Klean Kanteen and the entire product line, go to www.kleankanteen.com.


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Our buddy Megalodon lived in the Miocene to Pliocene periods, roughly between 2 to 28 million years ago. And that is great news to every scuba diver out there. Teeth are found on almost every dive with sizes ranging from 1 inch upwards of 6 to 7 inches. Scientists say that 1" of tooth equals approximately 10' of shark so doing the math you can quickly see my 5'9" frame would not even have been a decent sized spinning lure to these guys.
This area of Venice Florida is home to a prehistoric river that ran from the eastern seaboard under Florida and out into the Gulf of Mexico. Fossils have been located and dated back to the Eocene period so we are talking about 50 million years more or less of river life. What this means to the modern day divers who search this river bottom 2 miles off of Venice Beach is a bottom littered in history.
In addition to Meg's big chompers, divers return with bags of shark teeth from Mako, Sand, Snaggletooth, Tiger and Bull sharks. But that's not all; fossilized jaw bones and barbs from Sting Rays are common, along with prehistoric horse teeth. Colombian Mammoth and Mastodon teeth, Bison teeth and even Camel teeth have been found (see attached picture). Fossilized bones from Manatees, Whales, turtle shells and even snake vertebrae lay on the sandy and live rock bottom.
So how's the diving? Well we all know the Gulf of Mexico is not known for its pristine visibility but trust me you will care less. Normally you will have 10 to 15 feet of visibility. The dives are all in about 25' of water and Steve's charter includes both your weights and two 80 cu ft tanks. The idea here is to drop to the bottom and for the first time ever no one will be yelling at you to get your buoyancy right. You want to settle down on the bottom and slowly move in whatever direction Steve told you to during your dive briefing.
Dive times routinely run to 90 minutes or longer and with summer water temps at 86* or warmer a full skin works just fine. You will begin to see "shapes" in and on the sand, bones, both rounded manatee ribs and flat whale bones are everywhere. Soon you will notice a small shark tooth laying right in front of you, once you recognize the first one the rest seem to just jump out at you. If you're real lucky at the end of the day you could hold in your hand a tooth so big that I don't care how much of a macho diver you are; it's just too big for a shark tooth necklace!
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It's simply because the iPad doesn't have enough system memory (RAM) to store the page. So, if system RAM is in short supply, the present webpage is memory intensive or you have several tabs then the iPad simply doesn't have enough RAM to store the current page. The problem is significantly better on the iPad2 - which has twice the RAM of the iPad1 - but it's still there. Even a PC has this problem though, since most PCs have several GB of RAM, it isn't as prevalent.
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Khan Academy
Web address | www.khanacademy.org |
Slogan | A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.[1] |
Commercial? | No |
Type of site | Online education |
Registration | not required |
Available language(s) | English, Bengali, Indonesian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swahili, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Xhosa, Greek, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Malayalam, Hindi, Chinese, Thai, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean ,Telugu, Tamil, Kannada |
Content license | Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) |
Owner | Salman Khan |
Created by | Salman Khan, founder and Executive Director |
Launched | September 2006 |
Alexa rank | 4,903 Global, 2,165 US (May 2013[update])[2] |
Khan Academy is a non-profit[3] educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere."
The website features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 exercise problems, and over 4000 micro lectures[4] via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, general chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science.[5] All resources are available for free to anyone around the world. Khan Academy reaches about 10,000,000 students per month and has delivered over 300,000,000 lessons.[6][7]
The founder of the organization, Salman Khan, was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to a father from Barisal, Bangladesh and mother from Calcutta, India.[8] After earning three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a SB in mathematics, an SB in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MEng in electrical engineering and computer science) he pursued an MBA from Harvard Business School.
In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin Nadia in mathematics using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad. When other relatives and friends sought similar help, he decided it would be more practical to distribute the tutorials on YouTube.[9][10] Their popularity there and the testimonials of appreciative students prompted Khan to quit his job in finance as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management in 2009, and focus on the tutorials (then released under the moniker "Khan Academy") full-time.[10] Bill Gates once said, "I'd say we've moved about 160 IQ points from the hedge fund category to the teaching-many-people-in-a-leveraged-way category. It was a good day his wife let him quit his job".[11]
The project is funded by donations. Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization,[3] now with significant backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ann and John Doerr, Lemann Foundation, and Google. In 2010, Google announced it would give the Khan Academy $2 million for creating more courses and for translating the core library into the world's most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10100.[12] In 2013, the Carlos Slim Foundation made a donation to Khan Academy to expand its Spanish library of videos.[13]
Khan Academy has eclipsed MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) in terms of videos viewed. Its YouTube channel has more than 300 million total views, compared to MIT's 58 million. It also has more than twice as many subscribers, with 1,538,000.[14][15][16] Khan Academy currently provides various levels of mathematics courses, and Salman Khan has stated that with the help of teachers, tutors and experts,[17] Khan Academy now has topics beyond just math, such as physics, chemistry, finance, computer science, logic, biology, art history and more.[18]
Khan Academy also has thousands of resources translated into other languages. It launched the Spanish version of the website in September 2013.[19] It is supported by partners and volunteers in languages including Indonesian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swahili, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Xhosa, Greek, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, and Chinese.
Khan Academy also launched a computer science module in September 2012.[20][21]
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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, Khan Academy[22] |
The Khan Academy started with Khan remotely tutoring one of his cousins interactively using Yahoo Doodle images. Based on feedback from his cousin, additional cousins began to take advantage of the interactive, remote tutoring. In order to make better use of his and their time, Khan transitioned to making YouTube video tutorials.[23] Drawings are now made with a Wacom tablet and the free natural drawing application SmoothDraw,[24] and recorded with screen capture software from Camtasia Studio.[25]
All videos (hosted via YouTube) are available through Khan Academy's own website, which also contains many other features such as progress tracking, practice exercises, and a variety of tools for teachers in public schools. Logging into the site can be done via a Google or a Facebook account for those who do not want to create a separate Khan Academy account. The material can also be accessed with the Khan Academy Modern UI application available free of charge from Windows Store.
Khan chose to avoid the standard format of a person standing by a whiteboard, deciding instead to present the learning concepts as if "popping out of a darkened universe and into one's mind with a voice out of nowhere" in a way akin to sitting next to someone and working out a problem on a sheet of paper: "If you're watching a guy do a problem [while] thinking out loud, I think people find that more valuable and not as daunting".[26] Not-for-profit groups have distributed offline versions of the videos to rural areas in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.[9][27] While the current content is mainly concerned with pre-college mathematics and physics, Khan's long-term goal is to provide "tens of thousands of videos in pretty much every subject" and to create "the world's first free, world-class virtual school where anyone can learn anything".[9]
Khan Academy also provides a web-based exercise system that generates problems for students based on skill level and performance. The exercise software is available as open source under the MIT license.[28] Khan believes his academy points an opportunity to overhaul the traditional classroom by using software to create tests, grade assignments, highlight the challenges of certain students, and encourage those doing well to help struggling classmates.[10] The tutorials are touted as helpful because, among other factors, they can be paused by students, while a classroom lecture cannot be.[29]
The success of his low-tech, conversational tutorials—Khan's face never appears, and viewers see only his unadorned step-by-step doodles and diagrams on an electronic blackboard—suggests an educational transformation that de-emphasizes lecture-based classroom interactions.[30]
In 2010, Khan Academy introduced badges. There are currently 6 types:
- Meteorite badges — These badges are easy to earn and come with small energy point awards.
- Moon badges — These badges are harder to earn than the meteorites and have larger energy point awards.
- Earth badges — These badges are harder than moon badges but some are still easy to earn.
- Sun badges — These badges are harder than the Earths and unlike the previous categories, earning them is a challenge.
- Black Hole badges — These badges are unknown and extremely hard to earn and there are only 3 available to earn.
- Challenge badges — These are earned when one finishes all exercises of a certain topic.
Services and vision[edit]
The major components of Khan Academy include:[31]
- a personalized learning engine to help people track what they have learned and recommend what they can do next
- a video library with over 4500 videos in various topic areas and over 300 million lessons delivered.[6][7][32] These videos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.[6]
- automated exercises with continuous assessment; as of August 2013, there are 100,000 practice exercises, mainly in math. As of February 2013[update], over one billion problems have been answered on the site.
Homer's The Life Line, Smarthistory[33] |
A November 2011 grant of $5 million from Ireland-based The O'Sullivan Foundation, founded by Avego MD and cloud computing pioneer Sean O'Sullivan, will be directed to three initiatives:
- Expanding the teaching faculty
- Extending content through crowd-sourced contributions following a Wikipedia-style model
- Developing curricula to help users blend the content with physical teaching through STEM learning
Recent teaching appointees as a result of the grant include Dr. Steven Zucker, formerly of Pratt Institute, and Dr. Beth Harris, from the Smarthistory project at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to produce art and history content. YouTube video creators Vi Hart and Brit Cruise have also joined the teaching faculty.[34]
Salman Khan at TED 2011 | |
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education, TED[35] |
- In 2009, the Khan Academy received the Microsoft Tech Award for education.[27]
- In 2010 at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Bill Gates endorsed the learning resource, calling it "unbelievable" and saying "I've been using [Khan Academy] with my kids".[11][36]
- In 2010, Google's Project 10100 provided $2 million to support the creation of more courses, to allow for translation of the Khan Academy's content, and to allow for the hiring of additional staff.[37]
- An article featuring Khan Academy and Salman Khan appeared in the August 2011 issue of Wired Magazine.[38]
- In November 2011, the Khan Academy received a $5 million grant from the O'Sullivan Foundation.[39]
- In March 2012, Khan Academy was featured on CBS 60 Minutes.[40]
- In April 2012, Salman Khan was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People for 2012[41]
- The Khan Academy app features in many 'best educational apps' lists, including the one from BBC Active[42]
Educational impact[edit]
There are many who support Khan Academy for its technological ingenuity and its ability to introduce different educational dynamics. The Khan Academy's ability to freely distribute lessons has demonstrated technology's ability to eliminate economic barriers that prevent effective education, as long as an individual has regular access to an internet enabled computer. Since Benjamin Bloom's 1984 study on the effectiveness of "one-on-one tutoring," close student-teacher interaction has been aggressively sought after.[43] However, both the cost and the realistic implementation of this ideal has been an issue. Some promote that the Khan Academy has addressed these issues, through both cost-free nature of the site and its wide accessibility via the internet.
See also[edit]
- ALISON (company)
- LearnStreet
- Coursera
- Udacity
- OpenCourseWare
- Open educational resources
- Open textbook
- Bookboon
- China Open Resources for Education
- Connexions
- Curriki
- Flat World Knowledge
- Flexbook
- Free High School Science Texts, South Africa
- Lesson Planet
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, India
- Open.Michigan
- Tufts OpenCourseWare
- Marginal Revolution University
- Wikiversity
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- ^ a b Contribute, Khan Academy.
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- ^ Michels, Spencer (2010-02-22). "Khan Academy: How to Calculate the Unemployment Rate". News Hour. PBS. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ a b c "Khan Academy". Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ a b "Lessons" (You tube), Khan Academy (video) (Google).
- ^ "What is Sal's background?". Khan Academy. 2010. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
- ^ a b c "A free world-class education for anyone anywhere". About (FAQ). Khan academy.
- ^ a b c Temple, James (2009-12-14). "Salman Khan, math master of the Internet". SF gate. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
- ^ a b Kaplan, David A (2010-08-24). "Bill Gates' favorite teacher". CNN (Fortune). Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ "$10 million for Project 10^100 winners". The Official Google Blog. 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2010-09-24.
- ^ "Mexico's Carlos Slim funds Khan academy in Spanish", Market place.
- ^ Solomon, Ethan A (2011-12-06). "Sal Khan is Commencement speaker". MIT. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
- ^ "MIT". You tube. Google. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
- ^ "Khan academy". You tube. Google. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
- ^ "Our content specialists", About, Khan academy.
- ^ "I am Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy—AMA". Reddit. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
- ^ Khan academy (in Castilian).
- ^ "The Wikipedia of Education: 'Khan Academy' Launches Computer Science Education" (World Wide Web log). Career mitra. 20 August 2012.
- ^ Computer Science, Khan academy.
- ^ "Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem". Geometry. Khan Academy. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- ^ Khan, Salman. "How Did You Get Started?". FAQ. Khan Academy.
- ^ Smooth draw.
- ^ Khan, Demonstration of the C03U microphone (Google You tube), "Khan Academy: The future of education?", News (CBS), 62 seconds.
- ^ "Need a tutor? YouTube videos await". USA Today. AP. 2008-12-12. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ a b "Laureate: Salman Khan". Education Award. Tech awards. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-14.[dead link][verification needed]
- ^ "Exercises read me". Khan academy. GitHub.
- ^ Rasicot, Julie, "Education Review: Web site offering free math lessons catches on 'like wildfire'", The Washington Post, 5 August 2011.
- ^ "Innovation in Education: Bill Gates' favorite teacher". CNN Money. 24 August 2010.
- ^ "Khan Academy Vision and Social Return". YouTube. Google. 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ "Khan Academy". YouTube. Google. Retrieved 2011-05-01.
- ^ "Homer's The Life Line". Smarthistory. Khan Academy. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ^ "Frequency Stability", YouTube, Google.
- ^ Khan, Salman (March 2, 2011), "Let's use video to reinvent education", TED, retrieved February 28, 2013.
- ^ "Sal's Amazing Global Academy". The Gates Notes. 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ "Project 10100 Winners". Project 10100. Google. 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
- ^ Thompson, Clive (15 July 2011). "How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education". Wired. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ "The O'Sullivan Foundation Grants $5M To Online Learning Platform Khan Academy". Tech crunch. November 4, 2011.
- ^ "Khan Academy: The Future of Education?". News. CBS. March 2012.
- ^ Special, Time.
- ^ "Active", The best educational apps (list) (BBC).
- ^ Thompson, Clive (15 July 2011). "How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education". Wired. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Khan Academy. |
- Khan Academy Homepage
- Khan Academy's channel on YouTube
- Khan Academy (wiki) (official), Wikia.
- Khan Academy on Facebook
- Browse Khan – Watch a Video/Jump to Playlist drop-down Menu, Khan academy.
- Khan Academy (videos) (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) (in Bangla).
- Khan Academy (overdubbed) (videos) (in Italian), Google.
- In the Media: Khan Academy-Related Talks and Interviews, Khan academy.
- "The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education", Fast co. (Khan Academy #3)
- "Notes on Khan Academy videos", Sites, Google.
- 60 Minutes, CBS, Sunday March 8, 2012 .
- Khan, Salman (November 4, 2012), After Words (interview), The One World Schoolhouse.
- Khan Academy Windows 8 App to Learn Everything through Video Lectures, Howto connect.


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The Mat-Su Borough provided this map of the Cedar Hills area, showing parts of the subdivision affected by fires Thursday. (Courtesy Mat-Su Borough) (November 29, 2012) |
Update: Update from City of Palmer:
At 10 pm, residents may return to the Cedar Hills Subdivision without the need to show id. Please use care when driving as the firefighters will have their equipment in the area and will monitor the area throughout the night.
Mat-Su Borough officials have called for the Cedar Hills subdivision and other areas to be evacuated after several homes caught fire in high winds Thursday, temporarily closing the Glenn Highway in the area. One firefighter has been reported injured fighting the fires.
Palmer Mayor DeLena Johnson says the Glenn Highway has been reopened after a crash on the highway this afternoon that started the Cedar Hills fire. According to Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Megan Peters, the wreck involved a truck hauling a trailer.
The City of Palmer's Facebook page says the trailer involved apparently flipped at the intersection of the Glenn and Palmer Fishhook Road at 1:53 p.m. Thursday, generating sparks that ignited the fire.
Mat-Su Borough spokesperson Patty Sullivan says about 150 to 200 acres in Cedar Hills have burned, with three to four homes in the subdivision and another eight north of Wickersham Road all threatened. An evacuation center has been set up at the Palmer Senior Center for those displaced from the subdivision, which contains 15 homes.
"No homes (in the subdivision) have burned," Sullivan wrote in an update Thursday night. "Reportedly outbuildings and vehicles have caught fire. Later residences along the roads of Beylund Loop, off Scott Road, and Josh Road off of Felton Street had been evacuated."
Access to Cedar Hills has been blocked at Pioneer Parkway, as well as Wickersham Road. No roads into the Valley Trails subdivision have yet been restricted. Sullivan says firefighters may be able to bring the Cedar Hills blaze under control by 8 p.m., but only residents with identification will be allowed into the affected areas.
At least six fire departments have responded, with the Palmer, Butte and Mat-Su Central Volunteer fire departments already on scene and additional equipment arriving from Anchorage, Chugiak and Chickaloon.
Borough fire officials extended evacuations shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday to the Bayland Loop, Joshua Road and Pioneer Parkway areas, all near the Valley Trails subdivision.
The Mat-Su Borough School District's Facebook page says Palmer Junior Middle School will also serve as a shelter, with PJMS, Palmer High School, Sherrod Elementary School and Swanson Elementary School all affected by the evacuations.
Dennis Brodigan, director of emergency services at the Mat-Su Borough's Department of Emergency Services, says conditions in the Valley have been fanning flames, with winds consistently blowing at 35 mph and gusts reaching 50 mph.
The first of the Thursday fires was reported at 11:44 a.m., as a fully involved home on the 6200 block of East Sand Point Drive, near Wasilla Fishhook Road. Numerous units from the Palmer and Central Mat-Su fire departments, as well as West Lakes Fire and Rescue, responded to the call, encountering a pall of heavy black smoke as they arrived.
"When they got to the scene, they confirmed that the house was fully engulfed and that there was an all-clear with everyone out of the building," Brodigan said.
The fire spread from the home to two nearby vehicles as well as adjacent wildlands, but was subsequently brought under control at 1:38 p.m.
Units from West Lakes and the City of Houston responded to the second house fire, in Big Lake near the intersection of West Drowsy and Lazy Lake drives, at about 12:40 p.m. As of 2 p.m. Brodigan said crews hadn't yet brought the Big Lake blaze under control.
Palmer and Butte Fire Department units responded to a grass fire sparked when a power line went down in high winds at 12:52 p.m., on East Drift Lane at the South Glenn Highway near the Alaska State Fairgrounds. Brodigan said the call was "quick and dirty," with crews bringing the fire under control by 1:16 p.m., but noted that power had been shut off in the area and disruptions may persist Thursday afternoon.
Another fire, called in at 1:53 p.m., was reported near the intersection of Kobbernburg Road and the Glenn Highway, with two vehicles and patches of brush in the area.
Brodigan confirmed that a firefighter was injured Thursday, although he didn't immediately know the location of the fire in which the injury occurred or the firefighter's condition and jurisdiction.
In other wind-related news from the Valley, the Mat-Su Borough's Planning Division renewed a standing air quality advisory effective from 3 p.m. Thursday until winds and smoke subsides, recommending that children, the elderly and people with heart or lung disease stay indoors and reduce physical activity. Members of the general population were encouraged to avoid "vigorous outdoor activity."
Updates on Thursday's fires are available from a special hotline at 907-761-1315; only one person is answering the phone, however, and calls may be routed to an answering machine during periods of high call volume.
More information on the advisory is available from the Air Quality Alert System, at 352-3878.
Editor's note: Information on a phone hotline provided by the Mat-Su Borough has been updated; updates are also being provided online on the borough's Facebook page and the City of Palmer's Facebook page.
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Is there a way in SSIS 2008 to automatically convert Unicode strings to regular strings? Is there perhaps a package setting or something? I am reading several Jet datbases and all the string fields are coming across as Unicode Strings and the destination table they are being inserted into are defined as regular strings. I don't want to create a data conversion transformation for every string field in all these tables I'm importing. I'm just hoping there is a property that states to treat unicode as the default code page of 1252. Thanks, Pat Rogers
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Perhaps I am missing something, but as long as you aren't using characters that require Unicode, nothing prevents you from assigning the values to "standard" columns or variables. The implicit conversion is done for you.
I'm not doing it via code (c#,
vb.net). It was all in the SSIS package reading from Access databases and inserting into Sql Server 2008 db. In Sql Server, the fields are defined as varchar, but for whatever reason, using the OLEDB connection manager on the Jet Database, the string fields are coming in as unicode strings.
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At this point, I can't tell you anymore than that T-SQL will implicitly do the conversion for you. What sort of error(s) are you running up against?
Oct 26 '09 at 07:40 PM
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In the SSIS package, I am using an OleDB Connection to a MSAccess database for the source. I am also using an OLEDB Connection to Sql Server 2008 for the destination. The mapping fails since it states it cannon convert the Unicode value to string value.
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Higher Education Act of 1965
Other short title(s) |
Long title | An Act to strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in post-secondary and higher education. |
Colloquial acronym(s) | HEA, NTCA |
Nickname(s) | National Teachers Corps Act |
Enacted by the | 89th United States Congress |
Effective | November 8, 1965 |
Citations | |
Public Law | 89-329 |
Stat. | 79 Stat. 1219 |
Codification | |
Title(s) amended | 20 U.S.C.: Education |
Legislative history | |
The Higher Education Act of 1965 (Pub. L. No. 89-329) (HEA) was legislation signed into United States law on November 8, 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda. Johnson chose Texas State University–San Marcos—his alma mater—as the signing site.[1] The law was intended "to strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education." It increased federal money given to universities, created scholarships, gave low-interest loans for students, and established a National Teachers Corps. The "financial assistance for students" is covered in Title IV of the HEA.
The Higher Education Act of 1965 was reauthorized in 1968, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, and 2008. Current authorization for the programs in the Higher Education Act expires at the end of 2013. Before each reauthorization, Congress amends additional programs, changes the language and policies of existing programs, or makes other changes.
The HEA has been criticized for establishing statutory pricing of federal student loans based on political considerations rather than pricing based on risk.[2]
Changes in 1998[edit]
The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) was first authorized under the Higher Education Amendments of 1998. Also in the amendments of 1998 is the Aid Elimination Provision, which prevents students with drug charges from receiving federal aid for colleges and universities. This is where question 31 on the FAFSA forms originates. The question asks whether the student has ever been convicted of a drug crime while receiving federal financial aid. This statutory provision was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the face of a constitutional challenge by the ACLU in the case of Students for Sensible Drug Policy v. Spellings.[3]
Changes in 2003[edit]
In 2003, much of the Higher Education Act was set to expire. As a result, a number of minority groups united to ask for certain changes. Calling themselves the Alliance for Equity in Higher Education, this group was made up of "the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, an advocacy group for historically black colleges and universities, [and they] presented their joint recommendations for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act."[4] The Alliance aimed to help minority students enter fields where they seemed to be underrepresented and to give incentives to minorities to enter these programs. These incentives included more lenience on loan collection and full government funding for minority education. The Alliance also called for the government to create funding for students in graduate programs of universities serving the minority population.[4]
Even though the Alliance's request to change the Higher Education Act was heard, significant parts were denied. In 2003, the request for increasing the amount offered in a Pell Grant, to better cover a student's expenses, was denied by the Senate.[5] Still, other issues were corrected. There was a section passed, by the House, that did allow more funds to go to institutions, in order to keep them current; and a grace period for colleges asking for more loans was eliminated. So, if more funding were needed, minority institutions would not have to wait.[6]
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With the changes proposed in 2003, the actual Higher Education Act was not reauthorized. Instead, many of its sections were renewed, with little radical change. Numerous extensions have followed, with the most recent extension lasting through August 15, 2008. The Senate passed an HEA reauthorization bill in July 2007, as did the House of Representatives in February 2008.[7]
On August 14, 2008, the Higher Education Opportunity Act (Public Law 110-315) (HEOA) was enacted.[8] It reauthorized the amended version of the Higher Education Act of 1965.[9] This act made major changes in student loan discharges for disabled people. Previously, to qualify for a discharge, a disabled person could have no income. This has been changed to a no "substantial gainful activity" test, which is the same standard used by the Social Security Administration in determining eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). The changes took effect on July 1, 2010.
Additionally, the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRA), a budget reconciliation bill signed into law in September 2007, made significant changes to federal financial aid programs included in HEA. In addition to increasing the maximum Pell grant award and reducing interest rates on subsidized student loans, this bill capped loan repayment at 15 percent of an individual's discretionary income, raised the income protection allowance, enacted loan forgiveness for public servants in the Direct Loan program, set publicly funded student loans to fixed rates from variable rate loans, and took actions to address problematic practices in the lending industry. Most CCRA provisions took effect on October 1, 2007.[10]
The law for the first time also required post-secondary institutions be more transparent about costs and required the nearly 7,000 post-secondary institutions that receive federal financial aid funds (Title IV) to post net price calculators on their websites as well as security and copyright policies by October 29, 2011.
As defined in HEOA, the net price calculator's purpose is "…to help current and prospective students, families, and other consumers estimate the individual net price of an institution of higher education for a student. The [net price] calculator shall be developed in a manner that enables current and prospective students, families, and consumers to determine an estimate of a current or prospective student's individual net price at a particular institution."
The law defines "estimated net price" as the difference between an institution's average total Price of Attendance (the sum of tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and other expenses including personal expenses and transportation for a first-time, full-time undergraduate students who receive aid) and the institution's median need- and merit-based grant aid awarded.
Elise Miller, program director for the United States Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), stated the idea behind the requirement: "We just want to break down the myth of sticker price and get beyond it. This is to give students some indication that they will not [necessarily] be paying that full price."[11]
The template was developed based on the suggestions of the IPEDS' Technical Review Panel (TRP), which met on January 27–28, 2009, and included 58 individuals representing federal and state governments, post-secondary institutions from all sectors, association representatives, and template contractors. Mary Sapp, Ph.D., assistant vice president for planning and institutional research at the University of Miami, served as the panel's chair. She described the mandate's goal "to provide prospective and current undergraduate students with some insight into the difference between an institution's sticker price and the price they will end up paying."
The TRP faced the difficult challenge of creating one tool that could be used by a wide variety of institutions – from small, for-profit career schools to major research universities – while balancing simplicity for users.
To meet the requirement, post-secondary institutions may choose either a basic template developed by the U.S. Department of Education or an alternate net price calculator that offers at least the minimum elements required by law.
As part of its cost-transparency measures, HEOA of 2008 requires also on the College Navigator Web site a report giving the average institutional net price of attendance for first-time, full-time students who receive financial aid. This also forms the basis for transparency lists; a report on the College Navigator Web site the institutional net price of attendance for Title IV aid recipients by income categories; and for the U.S. Department of Education to develop a multi-year tuition and required-fees calculator for undergraduate programs for the College Navigator Web site.
- ^ "Johnson signs legislation into law". LBJ Library and Museum. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ Michael Simkovic, Risk-Based Student Loans (2013)
- ^ Text of Students for Sensible Drug Policy v. Spellings, 523 F.3d 896 (8th cir., 2008) is available from: Findlaw LexisOne Law.com
- ^ a b Stephen Burd, "Institutions Serving Minority Students Propose Changes to Higher Education Act," Chronicle of Higher Education 49, no. 26 (2003), http://web.ebscohost.com.
- ^ "Capital briefs," Community College Week 16, no. 4 (2003): 3, http://web.ebscohost.com.
- ^ Kristina Lane, "Bill Would Expand Higher Ed. Access for Minorities, Low-Income Students," Community College Week 16, no. 4 (2003): 3, http://web.ebscohost.com.
- ^ "A Strong Step for Students: House Higher Education Bill Promotes Innovation and Student Success". Center for Law and Social Policy. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ "Congress Expands Basic Aid and Supports Innovation in Student Success, Basic Skills, and Workforce Partnerships". Center for Law and Social Policy. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ "Higher Education Opportunity Act - 2008". U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- ^ American Association of University Women. Increasing Access to Higher Education. January 2008. http://www.aauw.org/advocacy/issue_advocacy/actionpages/upload/higherEdAct.pdf
- ^ University Business: Preparing for the Net Price Calculator: Avoid Potential Pitfalls by Taking These Steps Today By Haley Chitty, October 2009
- Federal Policy: Higher Education Opportunity Act. Center for Law and Social Policy.
- Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success. Center for Law and Social Policy.
- Title 20, Chapter 28, Subchapter IV, United States Code 1070, et seq.


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