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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's inability to hang on to the ball is causing its preseason goals to slip out of its grasp. The Volunteers have dropped five of their last six games and have produced more turnovers than assists in six of their last eight contests. The Vols (9-8, 1-4 Southeastern Conference) will try to stop both trends Saturday when they host Alabama (12-6, 4-1).
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Quarterbacks at all-star games have tough assignments. They are asked to control the game after a few with teammates and coaches. Oklahoma's Landry Jones, North Carolina State's Mike Glennon and other signal callers will take their shot in Saturday's Senior Bowl. But they are embracing the challenge like the other all-stars. Four Senior Bowl QBs went on to become first-round picks the past three years.
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This year more than 1,800 students from Mobile and Baldwin county schools participated in the 2012 Marine Resources calendar art contest held by the Marine Resources Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The 2012 "Conserving and Enjoying Alabama's Coastal Resources" art calendar will be available free to the public at various locations in January 2012, including the Alabama Marine Resources offices in Gulf Shores and Dauphin Island.
"The calendar art contest promotes an awareness and appreciation of Alabama's coastal resources," said Chris Blankenship, Marine Resources Director. "The student artwork in this calendar does a fantastic job of showcasing Alabama's coastal marine life and recreational opportunities. They did a great job."
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Just a half-day's drive south of Yosemite, these parks are worth a visit in their own right. From their towering groves of giant sequoia trees and granite rock formations to the bottom of North America's deepest canyon, you'll be astounded by how much beauty the southern Sierra Nevada offers.
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- A few hours after the procedure, a chest x-ray or other imaging technique may be done. This is done to make sure a lung has not collapsed and that there is no bleeding.
- If there are no complications after four hours, you may go home.
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Busick NP, Fretz PC, Galvin JR, et al. Transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy. Virtual Hospital website. Available at: http://www.vh.org. Accessed September 6, 2005.
Light R, Lee G (eds). Textbook of Pleural Diseases . London, England: Arnold; 2003.
Mason RJ. Murray & Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine . 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders; 2005.
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Childrens Right in Ugandan Schools
I recently had to pull my son out of the Ugandan school system because he was beginning to feel used and abused. On a daily basis, children are being physically abused despite laws being passed to prevent corporal punishment. Many teachers refuse to learn how to effectively manage a classroom. Children are shamed, and made to feel horrible, in what is suppose to be a conducive environment. My son was literally becoming depressed over the daily beatings and shaming episodes.
Most of the teachers only have to do at most two years of training, and range in age from 20 and up. They are very young and inexperienced. My only option outside of sending him to expensive international schools was to homeschool him over the internet. I am wondering if other parents are finding this a problem in other countries. What can be done to address this issue on a more global level. How can it be brough to the attention of children's rights groups?
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The lack of resources and funding have left our children deprived of great education, even here in the U.S. My parents are both public school teachers, and through my mom's 35+ years of experience she says the worst thing you can do to a kid is humiliate them. Humiliating children stunts both their emotional and mental growth causing them to have lack of confidence, focus, and drive. I am so sorry your son has to deal with the neglect and abuse from his teachers.
Education does need to be addressed, as you beautifully expressed in your entry. Thus, we as an international community need to place much more importance on education, where we need to consider it a human right. Teachers need to be cherished and receive better wages, but with better wages they need to have more training instead of two years, which is what you are dealing with. Furthermore, there needs to be a stronger commitment from the parents to educate their children at home and to help out their child's school in any way possible. Thanks so much for your post, they are always fascinating and enlightening.
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San Diego Padres (61-42)
Sunday, August 01
Petco Park
Attendance: 27,560
Game Leaders
L: Johnson
(10-4) 1.96 era
W: Garland
(10-7) 3.60 era
S: Bell
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San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Jerry Hairston Jr. capped a three-run bottom of the sixth with a two-run double, as the San Diego Padres avoided a three- game sweep with a 5-4 win over the Florida Marlins.
Yorvit Torrealba went 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored for the Padres, who went 3-3 on a six-game homestand. Chris Denorfia knocked in the other run for the victors.
Jon Garland (10-7) went six innings in the start, allowing three runs on five hits to win for the first time since July 16. The right-hander also struck out six and walked three to improve to 5-1 lifetime versus Florida. Heath Bell recorded his 30th save of the year.
"You know you're up for a battle every time you step on the mound," said Garland. "You have to keep their opportunites to the minimum in the field and you give yourself a good chance if you do."
Hanley Ramirez hit a solo homer for the Marlins, who went 4-3 on a seven-game road trip. Wes Helms, Logan Morrison and Ronny Paulino each had an RBI for Florida, which lost at Petco Park for the first time since July 8, 2008.
Josh Johnson (10-4) gave up five runs on seven hits in a 5 2/3-inning start to lose for the first time since June 26 versus the Padres. He also fanned five batters and walked four.
"I give them credit, but I didn't make my pitches today," said Johnson. "I didn't make my pitches and I let them stya in there, that will hurt you all the time."
The Marlins scored a run in the top of the sixth to take a 3-2 lead. With runners on the corners and two outs, Helms hit an RBI base hit to left.
San Diego responded with three runs in the bottom half to go in front. Torrealba singled and Will Venable walked to get things started. Two batters later, pinch-hitter Ryan Ludwick singled to load the bases. Pinch-hitter Denorfia followed with a sacrifice fly. Hairston then drove in two runs with a double to left for a 5-3 lead.
Will Ohman replaced Johnson on the mound to make his Florida debut. He got Chase Headley to fly out to limit the damage.
Ernesto Frieri and Luke Gregerson tossed a scoreless seventh and eighth, respectively, for the Padres.
The Marlins made things interesting in the ninth off Bell. Paulino doubled and Ramirez walked to put men on first and second with two outs. Morrison followed with an RBI single to right to make it a 5-4 game. Gaby Sanchez, though, flied out to end the contest.
The Padres score twice in the first inning. With two outs, Adrian Gonzalez singled and Miguel Tejada walked. Torrealba then extended his hitting streak to 14 games with a two-run double.
Florida got a run back in the second on Paulino's RBI single. Ramirez's solo homer to left in the third made it a 2-2 game.
San Diego's Venable led off the fourth with a triple. Two batters later, Tony Gwynn Jr. hit a grounder to second. Dan Uggla went home with the ball to get Venable out. Garland grounded out to keep it a tie game.
H: Gerry Davis
1B: Sam Holbrook
2B: Greg Gibson
3B: Brian Knight


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Waiuku took on Mangere at the fortress Massey Park on Saturday with their home unbeaten record proudly in check. However that was all changed by a resurgent Mangere who have signed new players to try and keep the team from being relegated into the Auckland federations. Waiuku dropped from fourth to sixth due to other results which damages their chances of a top two finish.
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Just as it looked like the equaliser was coming, Mangere exteneded their lead with a harsh looking penalty of their own. A Mangere attacker ran into the back of Johnson but a penalty was given for obstruction. Singh gave Baldwin no chance in goal. Ralph nearly got one back when his first time lob narrowly missed with the keeper well beaten but the final score was 4-2.
Coach Jim Evans was gutted with the result "So close but so far and the changing room was very quiet today. We had four players with the flu that is going around but they still got out there and gave it one hell of a shot. Today we just didnt have the luck and they seemed to have plenty. That is just the way football goes sometimes. I thought Dale Oliver who played his first game today after injury played exceptionally but captain Cody Ralph gets man of the match for his determination and his running off the ball."
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Olsen is the second student in the past year at BRMHS to earn a perfect score on the ACT. In September, Jesse Tan, a senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, could claim what only one in 3,330 students nationwide could at that time -- a perfect score of 36 on last year's American College Testing (ACT) exam. Usually, the school district reports its upcoming graduate's ACT scores in September of their senior year.
Olsen, however, is only 15 and in the 10th grade. He joined BRMHS this year looking for a more challenging math programs. Currently, he is taking American History Advanced Placement, Advanced Math -- Honors, English II – Honors and Chemistry – Honors.
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New sponsor unveiled today
Filed: Thursday, 7th June 2007
By: Matthew O'Greel
West Ham United's new sponsor - XL Airlines - is set to be officially later today.
The travel company are set to succeed Jobserve as United's new sponsor after signing a three-year-deal with the club thought to be worth around £2.5m per year.
As part of the deal, the company's giant logo is set to cover the entire East Stand roof - an area of around 110 metres wide - whilst United's new Umbro kit, set for release next weekend, will also feature XL branding.
An internal memo sent to all XL employees by CEO Phil Wyatt this morning said:
"I am delighted to announce to you all that today XL will be officially announced as the principle sponsor of West Ham United Football Club.
"This represents a significant step towards developing XL as a household travel brand in the UK.
"All the players club shirts will carry the XL.com logo, and we will also have a heavy presence in all West Ham advertising.
"We see this as a great opportunity for us to raise our profile and feel that XL will only benefit from the kudos that being associated with a Premiership club brings.
"This is an exciting time for the XL leisure Group, and we see this link-up as another important step towards becoming one of the world's most well-know travel brands."
XL - who changed their names from Excel last winter - are the fifth largest holiday company in the UK, and employ around 20,000 people worldwide. The company has an annual turnover in excess of £2bn.
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12:52 AM on a schoolday that starts at 10:30 AM is probably not the
best time to write an S-Files, but what the heck. I haven't been
writing. Stories have backed up, and the resulting chaos in my mind
appears to have edged out important details like the names of people
I'm supposed to know and the details of where I'm supposed to be.
Time to defrag.
I am all the more unusually loquacious because I have just finished
writing a lab exercise for the introductory computer science course
for which I am a teaching assistant. My pitiful effort at making
"Hello, World!" fun and exciting can be found at
http://courses.ateneo.edu/cs21a/lab1.html , with no guarantee that
it'll actually even be used in today's CS session. I'm banking on the
fact that Dr. Sarmenta probably hasn't prepared materials as detailed
as this, as I haven't seen anything like it from, well, any of my CS
teachers. I'm _hoping_ that he'll let me deliver the class, which is
a far-out possibility but still worth considering. I also hope I'll be
awake enough to do so with wit and style.
I love the project submission system I wrote last semester. After
editing the postgresql start script so that the postmaster would
accept TCP connections, I simply had to set up the database and run
a script that obligingly extracted and included all the students in
the student data files that the department forwarded to me. All 222
students of CS21A in 9 sections have been set up. How nice.
Teaching. Hmm. I had dinner with Mario Carreon (an old friend from
high school competitions) the other night. He teaches at UP and is
considering moving to the industry because of the pay. We talked about
teaching, mainly, and in the course of our conversation I found myself
declaring that yes, this is it – I cannot imagine myself in any other
profession except teaching. Especially college level introductory
computer science. That's it.
Naturally teaching doesn't stand on its own – I must be teaching
_something_, and teaching also offers ample time for research. Enter
wearable computing. I'll be getting my gear on the 23rd, if all goes
well. Expect lots of files going on and on about how cool it all is.
Speaking of cool, I also find myself getting interested by game
development. Eric, Diane and a few of my other friends are getting
together and starting a game company. As the insane computer science
student that I am (and hope never to stop being), I have decided that
the challenge of breaking into a new field (at least one I'd never
been in before) and learning enough to not only understand what Eric
talks about when he enthusiastically describes his latest engine but
also to offer suggestions and whip up a demo on my Linux box is
somewhat comparable to the feat of… well, _something._ I'm crazy
enough to think that it's possible, and it should give me something
new to learn.
To that end I have been playing around with small OpenGL programs here
on my Linux laptop. Not that my hardware can easily handle the demands
of 3d graphics programming, but I manage to squeak by with Emacs, gcc,
a Makefile and lots of Googling. I have to confess that what excites
me about games is not the funky graphical effects but rather the
gameplay and the character and setting development – witness the
sudden explosion of Inform text adventures in my ~/notebook/games
Nonetheless, I will climb Mount Everest just because it's
there. <impish grin>
Oh, school's been fun. My teachers are nice.
I yawn, and I must sleep.
Good karma: Restored WinCE on the iPAQ so that she could use
it. Procedure was pretty uneventful and not as scary as I thought it
would be.
Apparently the mini banana plugs for my wearable display battery are
quite rare. CE guys are looking for it.
Slowly finding other wearable enthusiasts and sharing resources. We
may yet see a research group here.
My middle sister Kathy is leaving for Africa Real Soon Now. Nice!
Bad karma: Didn't do too well on my Theology test because I hadn't read the assigned readings. How embarrassing.
No classes last Monday and Tuesday because of typhoons. My only class tomorrow is a free cut because the teacher needs to be somewhere else. No classes next Monday and Tuesday because of some elections.
Richi and my mom started bugging me about my journal. Here it is!
The CE guys came through with my battery power supply, so I have been walking around with my M1.
I am Borg. =D
I showed it to some CS teachers waiting outside the department. Everyone was, like, "Oh my God. This is sooo cool."
People walk up to me and ask me what it is. I show them the display. They think it's cool.
I like being able to read my mail or check my messages. I like being able to read my history notes or dash off a quick note. I like this.
No accidents yet. Good thing. I don't read while crossing the street, and I can pay attention to the real world well enoguh.
I've also freaked out some of my students. I asked for someone's ID number, pulled up my records, and started rattling off full name, contact info, project submissions…
Life is good.
Glossary: CE – Computer Engineering M1 – head-mounted display available from www.tekgear.ca Borg – short for cyborg. Also term made popular by Star Trek, a television series.
Yes, it's me.
Apparently my laptop got scared and is cooperating again. I've backed
up the rest of my data and should manage to survive nuclear fallout
and the like.
Still considering going for a real wearable…
The online submission system I was hacking together works, and I'm now
just fiddling around with ideas for the next one.
Ooh! And I tried walking my mom through the process of getting the Linux box at home on the Net and ssh'able – they turned it off last night and I'd forgotten to tell it to automatically run ssh and ddclient. I love my mom. It takes a really special mom to have to deal with all of those cryptic Linux commands…
I hadn't quite gotten it to work – guess I forgot something pretty major – but hey, it was really wonderful of her to try.
I can't wait to actually get it working. =)
I'm actually tempted to set up one of those shared screen things….
So tough luck, guys, I win the coolest mom contest. ;)
Special thanks go to my parents, who have been incredibly supportive not just during this time of crisis but all throughout my life. =)
I had my social immersion this weekend. See, our university requires
that all graduating students spend two and a half days living among
the poor so that we can get an idea of what their life is like. I
actually enjoyed it. It wasn't too bad. Actually, it was kinda fun
watching my groupmates freak out. Shhh.
We learned how to cook some of the things the vendors sell on the
street. We slept in their shanties, ate their food, and (to the horror
of some of my groupmates) showered in their tiny bathrooms equipped
only with a bucket of water and a small pitcher. I'm sorta used to it
because of camping. =) Not a kind of life I'd want to live
permanently, but I made do.
Most of the time, though, we listened. They have interesting
stories. Apparently most of them are from a few provinces in the
Visayas, and they left because they feared the insurgents in the
area. They've been occupying that lot for some 30 – 40 years now, and
a few generations have grown up there.
As part of our social immersion program under Fr. Padua (our theology
teacher), we looked into the issues that united and divided their
community. A major bone of contention for the different groups in
these slums is a small chapel. Hardly a chapel, even – just a clear
space with a roof over its head and a small altar for Mass – but it
has resulted in deep rifts. Fr. Padua and the other people we talked
to seem to think that one of the families there is trying to maintain
control over this chapel for somewhat less than admirable
reasons. It's apparently quite a lucrative venture – P2,000 for a
wake, when the actual costs are so much lower! Other people complain
about the drinking and gambling going on there – sometimes even inside
the chapel. Accusations of nepotism abound, especially since the
controlling family seems to be exploiting the common space for their
own personal gain.
Of course, I feel vaguely uncomfortable at hearing only one side of
We'll probably be focusing on that for our report. Anyway, look – I survived
immersion. Cool, yes?
I'm also coming to terms with religion. After much soul-searching (and an unbelievable amount of Googling), I've realized quite a few things about myself.
I'm an atheist. There, I've said it. Doesn't mean I'm going straight to hell (not that I believe in hell). Doesn't mean I'm going to go and be a nasty person. It just means that I have no particular belief in a god.
I guess I should explain that before my parents start wondering where they went wrong. =)
I came from a Catholic grade school run by Benedictine nuns (they're really nice), and when I was growing up, I think I really believed in it. I attended mass. I took communion. I eagerly devoured stories of saints and miracles, and wondered if I'd ever be one of the beatas or witness a miracle.
Then again, I also believed in all sorts of strange things back then, like spirits and ghosts and cloud castles and stuff like that. Blame it on people trying to use the supernatural to scare little kids. (Note to self: Never ever do that to small kids.) In retrospect, it was sort of embarrassing. |)
I think I was losing bits of it already in the last part of grade school. I was never really one for retreats. Going to a nonsectarian high school forced me to reexamine many of my beliefs as well.
I was never too comfortable with the somewhat fundamentalist stance that many people took when it came to religion – "I am right, you are wrong. I will be saved, you are damned." You know, that sort of thing. It's a good thing my parents were pretty moderate and tried as much as possible to explain to a rather confused girl that not everyone thought that way. On the contrary, many people thought that all the different religions were just different ways to reach one God and one truth.
I think it all started with the afterlife. Haven't we all thought about death and life after death? While thinking about it, I realized that I didn't really believe in hell – no fire and brimstone, no eternal boredom or loneliness, no eternal punishment. It just didn't make sense to me, partly because I have a hard time thinking that anyone's absolutely and irrevocably evil, and partly because I didn't see how useful Hell would be as a deterrent.
So naturally I turned to thinking about purgatory. I never really did feel comfortable with the thought of indulgences or souls hanging around in limbo waiting for people to pray for them so that they can enter heaven. Didn't make sense to me.
What did that leave? Heaven. I was still a little okay with the idea of, well, a heaven with everyone in a perfect society. Utopia. That sort of thing, yes? So heaven remained, and for a while I was okay (although a little unorthodox).
Then a friend of ours died, and I found it strangely acceptable that his corpse was, well, rotting away in the ground, and that was it – finis. End of existence. No flying around in heaven. No disembodied spirits hanging around. No consciousness. No resurrection, no second chance, zip. I didn't need the idea of heaven to reassure me that everything was going to be all right, and besides – on what had I been basing my idea of heaven on? Just what I'd been taught? So that faded away, too.
One life. One chance. After this, that's it! Tough luck. Bye. =) No hanging around trying to influence others. No praying for intercession. What makes life worth living? Maybe the difference I can make in other people's lives – the great experiment that has yet to be performed.
Around this time I was also examining my beliefs about good and evil. I used to actually believe in a literal personification of evil, what with all of the stories told us, but I realized how that didn't really make sense. I've had the luck not to run into anyone I could really call evil, and that also means I don't quite understand it either. That's one of the TODOs I should probably get around to resolving. =)
So there's that – the realization that I'm an atheist. I don't believe in a god, or some higher power that watches us and loves us. Not that I'm saying that God doesn't exist – people can believe whatever they want. I'm just saying that for me, well, I don't strongly believe in that. I'll still go to church because my parents would like me to, and I'm still going to try to be a nice person because I like being a nice person.
Perhaps one day I'll emerge from the other side. Who knows? But I don't want to pretend to beliefs that I don't have. =) Nice to have things out in the open, yes?
Today I had a rather deep discussion with Paolo Venegas about – of all
things – religion, or my lack thereof.
On another note, this person scares me sometimes (but in a good way).
He's learning LISP and PHP, absorbing so much information at such a
rate. I find this encouraging. He'll probably catch up in a short
while, but in the meantime I'll try to do whatever I can to help him
learn more.
Today, too, I was quite pleasantly surprised. Turned out that I didn't
actually lose one of my best friends – Eric Vidal. We just had a
slight misunderstanding.
Today I learned more about Emacs, too. Emacs is fun. Emacs is good.
Sleep is good, too.
I'll be more coherent when I wake up.
Woke up. Overslept for my class. Oh well!
I think I'll go for HTML. If animation is necessary, then I'll use Flash. I won't be able to reach the auditory/kinetic people as much, but I'll be able to provide them with more material.
The module definitely has to be downloadable and 'runnable' on any system.
Sleepy. Was rewriting script. I think I've got a much better idea now.
I spent the whole day looking for a subnotebook. The
3.5″ IDE connector.
Started setting up a mail server. Cyrus21 is weird. Might be a good
idea to make the IntranetServer next weekend's project.
My laptop died. Again. It's really not the hard disk – I think it's the laptop itself. Must definitely find subnotebook that I can install Linux onto. Must decide between 8.9″ and 10″ display.
Doc Sarmenta story. I arrived at F228 a little too early for my 3:00 CS21A class, and I ran into Dr. Sarmenta packing up. Some students asked him if they could consult with him, but as he'll be fairly busy due to Faculty Day, I volunteered to meet them instead. Got introduced as Sacha Chua, one of the head TAs around here. I replied, "We have head TAs?" Dr. Sarmenta continued, "She does most of the stuff." :D
Volunteered to conduct CS21B tutorials at 10:00 AM tomorrow, F230.
Doc V story. Had thorny discrete mathematics problem that I needed help with. Doc V stumped. :) Actually, talked about problem with Eric over dinner, and he had a nifty insight that greatly simplified the problem.
Doc Sarmenta story. Presented thesis proposal. Earned "That's very exciting" comment. :)
Gino story. Gloated about the fact that my thesis is humanitarian, useful, involves Linux, and doesn't have a GUI. Wooohooo! :D
Hey, I think this actually works.
(global-set-key (kbd "<f9> R SPC") 'planner-remember-region)
w00t. It just works.
Some confusion about when Roosevelt died. See, it would be so nice to
have Google..
I realize that my system is still mostly unusable. tmm-menu speaks ==>
get a wish list of hardware – charmit
thinkgeek com
thin client, using the xscale chip automatic media transfer automatic networ configueration bluetooth or wireless or GPRS
US Army
problem with gprs connectivity. We can probably use thatnew toshica pda dongle with vvga and usb and bluetooth.
can it do master
team of looking for what's cool
remind roomel o send me a copy of the proposal
enumerated the derscription. abstract. equipment and timeline
present something grand
mobile multimedia disabled first, lots of funding
two or three projets, possible projects.
send something by tuesy.
intel is keen n doing this
decode-time is a built-in function.
(decode-time &optional SPECIFIED-TIME)
Not fully formed
Existentialism: no "nature" but we have history. The moment we are born, we cannot say that that is us. That we are fixed. We begin creating the history that will become our history.
Maybe I should store the tasks in a MySQL database. MySQL allows us to do a simple relevance query. Hmmm. This may give me an excuse to go Java as well as Emacs.
now we're talking about relationships
make remember use emacspeak.
learn enough to become a major contributor ito Emacspeak
if i store it in a database, then I can use queries.. I need to also find out how to make bbdb use lots of different source files
If I store all tasks in a database, then I need to be able to quickly refer to it. Actually, i I can cache it, that'd be nice. K
That means I'll have unique task IDs, which allows me to use pretty good task references.
Most of the time I'll be dealing with just the day's tasks
I want something to remind me what I'm currently working on, and the last few things I've been working on. For example, in a conversation, I may occasionally refer to the last things people say. This would be a circular list.
Research and Development – CompSAT
Paolo Venegas
We learn so that we may learn more in this committee.
I believe that we should develop a society in ourselves such that stealing should no longer be necessary. We should be a group with everyone equal, with everyone sharing common knowledge. It's not a competition thing. That's what I want for this committee. We are going to have activities later based on that. We are all learning here. It is not for any specific… it's not about being able to separate yourself from the group and being able to say that you're superior or elite. CompSAT as a helper in this community and that's what this organization is about.
We need to know the people we work with. Sometimes people are harder to work with than computers. People are different. Let's introduce ourselves and tell each other something about ourselves.
masayang mag-program. Natutuwa pa rin ako. Adikt sa computer games
Main concentration: web dev.
They want it on the 16th of September. We are under pressure.
Jean Paul Sartre
Fixed planner remember bug – context was getting picked up after the switch of buffer.
Sept 19: 20 pt quiz on article 45, 46, 48 (social analysis folder
Sept 26, oct 1: bonus quiz: Synthesis folder
Oct 3, 6: Immersion Group Reports
Oct 10: Review of Thesis Shet
Ref 3: Immersion due Sept 30
Reflection 2: Due September 26.
So first for september 19
What will I talk about later?
– my wearable computing project
One of these days I really should improve the emacspeak interface to many functions. Perhaps I should consider how to make it in Java…
Problem-solving focus for CS110.
What is traditionally covered? Stacks, queues, trees, O(n), recursion, dynamic programming, searching, sorting.
Web development – cartolina, permanent marker
Objectives: involve them in the design process and show them how the design process works.
Start with the system concept. What kind of system do we need? Who will use it?
Assumptions: Social Analysis in the context of the pastoral cycle
1. Before you can make a meaningful relevant social analysis, there must be that personal connectedness. There must be that link between you and that social reality, between you and the poor. Solidarity. Without the connectedness, what happens? You cannot analyze what you do not know and what you are not familiar with. The call to find God in the ordinary. In all things. To encounter the face of God in the least.
visavis indifference and apathy.
Always keep your users in mind. Always remember why you're doing a system – to make hard things easy and impossibly things possible.
Designing a Web Application
One of the fundamental differences between web programming and
Yet why do web programming?
The browser
Limited input and output
Web team
– database developer
– web developer
– web designer
– tester
1.3 Goal. Praxis. If we remain on the theological reflection moment, what happens – if there is no action? detachment
In the elections of 1949, Quirino is the candidate of the liberal
party. Laurel nationalista party. Quirino wins with 52% of the vote.
I feel so stressed out. Traffic will do that to a person – traffic and the thought of being late. But it's no one's fault but my own – as my mom pointed out, I could just have started commuting at 4:30, and maybe I'd even be there by now. still, there is nothing I can do about that.
maybe I should eat first.
That machine runs on Linux. how do i retrieve
- talk to Selwyn and Mike Mapa
looking around corners
military applications
ask selwyn about sci fi story
six tracks – egovernment, wireless
isolated lab problem – teachers not learning about the computers
write selwyn about non-military applications.
heyey web hosting.
(Wed Sep 18:06 2002, *Article*)
Existentialism is a humanism
Today I will finish my CS178 module so that it is out of the way.
I will also reborrow the graded problems book.
I need to meet Hans, don't forget.
Someone I know referenced me in his blog. Marcelle – remember him?
Right. I never could quite figure out why he was going nuts over the
fact that I'm simply not the kind of person who can arbitrarily become
best friends with people, and certainly our lack of intersect would
make it rather difficult for us to get to know each other. Anyway, he
seems to have dealt with that issue fairly well. His blog is over at
http://www.mistervader.blogspot.com , and is – as he admitted in
e-mail – fairly angsty, although I find it really just more concerned
about things like Otaku Boards (http://www.otakuboards.com), which I'd
visited but haven't really felt at home in. I am surprisingly less
anime-centric than the stereotypical geek, I suppose.
Must find a way to clean mouse point.
Ah, yes, the wireless card. =) I am a very lucky girl. My parents got
me a wireless card for my Christmas gift (in addition to my beautiful
subnotebook, of course). One of the things I really like about my
parents is that they won't actually wait until Christmas to give it to
me, since I can very well use it before then. =) I have clueful
Got my wireless card working. There was a bit of confusion about eth0
and eth1 – turned out to be my fault. Once I had gotten my dhclient
all sorted out (I was mistakenly calling it from intuitively, and that
turned out to be a Bad Thing), it Just Worked. For reference, I've
got a Linksys WPC-11 Instant Wireless card. It's supposed to be a
Prism2, so has limited functionality but can act as a wireless access
point with the hostap tools. Coverage in Faura is not bad, but I
haven't checked other areas for decent signal. Should improve if
Dr. Sarmenta manages to get Microsoft to agree to blanket the campus
with wireless access points.
Speaking of Dr. Sarmenta… He was in a meeting earlier, so we didn't
have ThesisProject class. I want to change advisors. ;)
Back to Microsoft. I really, really hope they push through with the wireless thing. I don't understand why Microsoft isn't very actively courting us. C'mon, if I were an evil empire and I wanted to ensure my hold on the future generations, I'd get them while they were young. I'd give freebies, training, cool gadgets, lots of publicity… Microsoft's a large company with plenty of budget to spare. We just won an international competition – you think they'd take advantage of that wonderful PR opportunity. I suppose their marketing is losing their edge. ;) Of course this is all just personal opinion, since our school obviously believes in Microsoft enough to go for the Academic Alliance and that .NET stuff, but still…
If you think about it, many of our classes are too vendor-centric. Take Contemporary Databases (translation: Oracle), or Enterprise Java Programming (guess), or even Intro to C++, which was actually pretty okay if not fairly boring, and had a sliver of MFC tacked on at the end but didn't cover other toolkits). On the plus side, we do actually have Systems Programming, which is Unix-based thanks to the strong push of people like William Yu, Sir Marco and Doc Mana if I'm not mistaken. w00t!
(Update 2003.09.24: Come to think of it, we're remarkably not vendor-centric – at least the classe I've taken.)
Anyway, I really should be going to bed now. My roommate has borrowed my alarm clock again – it's apparently the loudest in the dorm… =) Hopefully I'll remember to wake up tomorrow. Good night!
"A human being who is weaned from all attachment to internally unstable
pursuits such as love, sexual activity, power-seeking, and
money-making is automatically at the same time rid of many of the most
common grounds of value conflict. In part, the superior harmony of the
philosopher's life results directly from this reduction in the number
of his or her commitments. The pursuit of mathematics and the pursuit
of love will not come into conflict for a mathematician who does not
care about love or a lover who does not care about mathematics. But
the philosopher or mathematician's particular choice of content
contributes powerfully, too, to his harmonious condition. He chose
these pursuits precisely because they were always available and did
not require any special conditions for their exercise. He can think
about theorems in all kinds of circumstances; they are always
available for his activity, regardless of his political circumstances,
regardless of the activities and attachments of other human beings. So
how often will he be forced to make a painful choice? The
self-sufficiency of individual pursuits leads, then, to a reduction in
Interesting thought, isn't it?
Heavy traffic on the way home. Much work still to be done, but at least my Linuxchallenge stuff sorta works.
I don't know about my core subjects this semester. I really have to learn how to write focused papers. I think I will redo my theology papers until I get them right.
One of my friends gave me a particularly neat gift – chocolates for programming, a stuffed toy for company and a ticket to LOTR in order to unwind. Nice, right? (Thanks, Byron!)
Another of my friends is doing me a christmas favor by bringing me a Square1 and cooki[es?]
I'm here in Legaspi, so far from Makati and from everyone else I know. Got dragged off by my parents.
Looks like we're not very sure about what date we'll actually make it back.
I have a hard time dealing with that sort of thing. I would really, really, really like to go home today. In fact, I would really have liked to go home yesterday, or even not gone anywhere at all.
It's just that I have a hard time dealing with unanticipated plans. This whole thing was an unplanned excursion. We were supposed to attend a wedding in Tagaytay – accepted, planned for, and scheduled around. We were supposed to stay there overnight – again, I had fair warning, so I was prepared for that. Then my crazy dad thought it a good idea to go south to Bicol.
I want to go home. I want to go home.
Now they're talking of staying until Wednesday.
My family is quick to reassure me that we will find an Internet cafe sometime. As if that's what's bugging me. What would I do on the Internet? Check Slashdot? Earn good karma on #linuxhelp?
It's not about that at all.
I am just not an adventure person. My idea of a good social activity is a quiet conversation over good food, and a nice game afterwards perhaps. I do not like substituting activities for conversation. I do not like going on great adventures.
One of the things I do not feel comfortable with on this trip is that I have no choice but to be here. I have no control. Even if I really wanted to go home – which I do! – I can't do anything about it. In fact, my family seems to have acquired the idea that this adventure is a Good Thing for me.
I hate it.
I want to go home.
My parents think I have some previous appointments that I want to keep.
I'm used to having plans. I'm used to knowing where I'll be in the next few days. I'm used to knowing what will happen.
And even if something unexpected happens, I'm used to being able to decide what to do about it. I do not like not having control.
And I just get the feeling that they don't really care, which makes perfect sense of course because they finally have my two sisters together in one place, and that my parents have taken time out from their ultrabusy schedules. I'd rather that we _didn't_ have these adventures and that we just regularly got together instead. I'd rather we didn't have to treat it with such fuss. I'd rather that we didn't have to make it such a big thing.
Yes, I know my sister will be married next year, and will henceforth probably have little time for our family. How is that any different from now? And yes, we so rarely go out as a family, and that I should value the time we all have together. Why have to guilt-trip me?
I want to be home.
What would I do if I were home, anyway? Nothing much, probably. Play Nethack. Talk to friends. Read the assigned work. Continue with life as usual. It's not much, I know, but I can choose, and so I am fully present. Here… well… My sisters want to be off surfing and kayaking. My dad is going around taking pictures.
I suppose I resent being uprooted and my plans being changed. I do not like this uncertainty at all. I do not like not knowing where I'll be the next day, or how long it will be until I get back. I do not like having to buy clothes one day at a time. I do not like it at all.
This is one of the things I will have to learn how to deal with eventually. But it will be hard to counter the effects of an upbringing that has always emphasized planning. You know what it's like to show talent at an early age. People will have great expectations, and all your life is part of a plan. How unfortunate it would be if you were distracted, if you deviated from the course that had been set! True, the plan may change slightly, but in general you are not supposed to do anything that does not directly contribute to your plan.
Do only that which furthers your goal.
This is something I must change.
Okay, I feel better now.


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Carrie Underwood Films a New Sunday Night Football Video
Carrie Underwood is back for a second year to sing the Sunday Night Football theme song!
Carrie Underwood is back for a second year to sing the Sunday Night Football theme song!
In case you missed Carrie Underwood singing the Sunday Night Football theme song last night, you can watch here!
Carrie Underwood takes over for Faith Hill on September 8th as Sunday Night Football begins. And 13 NFL players will be by her side, even though a whole slew of NBC stars "auditioned" for a part!
Carrie Underwood is the new voice of 'Sunday Night Football,' following in Faith Hill's footsteps. And everyone just wants to hear Underwood's version of the 'Sunday Night Football' theme!
According to the Los Angeles Times, Carrie Underwood will be the new voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football.
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There's no room in the market for anything Obama other than the "I just gotta have one" Chia Obama!!
It's a clear example of the miracle of American Consumerism that those things even sell.
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They cashed out retirement funds to build their business during the 2008 presidential campaign. Now they have 3,000 jack-in-the-boxes with smiling Barack Obama puppets inside — all sitting in a California warehouse, waiting to be sprung open for $29.95 apiece.
For Barack-in-the-Box creator Heather Courtney and her husband, David Manzo, the Obamamania that drove sales so fast they could barely keep up during the inauguration is over now. Sales have slowed to a "sporadic drizzle," the 36-year-old artist said, in part because the president just isn't as popular.
Back in January, it was nearly impossible to escape the Obama commercial boom.
Then came the bailouts, the stimulus, the summer of health care hollering — all bringing Obama's approval rating down to about 50% — and simply the passage of time after any president's honeymoon.
While the president's face still sells, the biggest shift in Obama merchandising has been the rise of anti-Obama sales in recent months. Online retailer CafePress.com, where users can make and sell their own shirt designs, saw anti-Obama sales boom since June.
"When it comes to political or pop culture, we can become somewhat of a barometer of what's going on in the world," said Amy Maniatis, vice president of marketing for CafePress. "Our T-shirt sales now are much more reflective of the opinion polls — about 50-50 pro vs. con."
The numbers were in Obama's favor 99-1 during the inauguration. Still, even on his worst days, Obama's support measured in T-shirt sales hasn't fallen below the best days of President George W. Bush's popularity, she said.
There's no room in the market for anything Obama other than the "I just gotta have one" Chia Obama!!
It's a clear example of the miracle of American Consumerism that those things even sell.
A complete waste of space.
Political insight gleaned from the sales of toys of inexplicable design can't have much value.