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That, along with Chelsea Sawyer re-injuring her knee with 6:32 left in the opening half, hurt the Hurricanes' upset bid. Sawyer had 10 points before going down while Whitfield led her team with 14 points.
"I'm very proud of how we played," Rose said. "I'm a little frustrated with how things ended up in the end. I thought that we should have got some calls there that we didn't get. I thought they got some calls there they probably shouldn't have got.
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The Hurricanes led 27-16 with 2:08 left in the first half on one of two free throws by Whitfield. But Lejeune scored the final 10 points of the half to pull within a point at halftime. Major, the tournament MVP, scored 6 points on a field goal and four foul shots while also coming up with a block, a steal and a rebound.
And Chryssandra Tatum, who finished with 13 points and 15 rebounds, had two buckets, one on a follow, and two rebounds.
"Our three main points tonight were attack the basket, protect the basketball and contain (Major)," Rose said. "She's a good player. I can't take anything away from her. Without her, I know that we're better."
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Major 30, Tatum 13, N. Wallace 8, Overton 7, Lee 6. Totals— 23 18-31 64
3-Point Goals— P 1 (Sawyer 1). L 0. Rebounds— P 39 (Sparrow 8, Davis8, Tutt 7). L 49 (Tatum 15, Major 12, Lee 12). RECORDS— P: 15-6, state 1-A playoffs, TBA. L: 22-0, state 1-A playoffs, TBA.


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I put these pedals on my commuter and used them for about a week and was very pleased with them.
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Asking a company good questions is an important part of your interview. It will enable you to really show that you know what you're talking about. It also allows you to find out if the company is a good match for you. An interview should be about evaluating both the to be employee and the to be employer, not one sided.
Here's a list of questions you can start with, and as you discuss their answers there will probably be other topics that come up that you can discuss. You can also make suggestions to the company if you find that their process can be improved.
In addition to the Joel Test questions...
I have seen this somewhere. "What would you expect me to have accomplished in 6 months?", just to set expectations right.
"Can I take a look at your coding standards document?"
If there's something really silly in there, I will steer clear.
Recent example: "Every private field must have a public getter and setter method" (Java)
This isn't exactly something you can ask, but something to be aware of:
Having gone through quite a few interviews and jobs, one thing that I think is crucial is to identify the potential personality clashes as much as possible among your potential co-workers. Over the years I've found that there are a couple of personality types common in our industry that can make things miserable and/or downright impossible. Team cohesion is extremely important in this line of work, and I've found that it's best to avoid getting involved with toxic personalities if at all possible.
@Brian R. Bondy coverned a lot of what I ask.
I like to get a walk through the spaces. You can tell alot about a company from seeing how people interact with each other as you walk through.
I ask about the corporate culture - I want a feel for how bureaucratic and structured the place is. I have found through the years that too unstructured is worse than too bureaucratic. Too often they aren't really serious about producing a product to make money with and will go down the tubes. I want to work with people who want to work, not play. I want to know if I will be working with people as part of a team or if I will mostly be working on projects by myself. I want to see how the position fits into the org structure and if there is room for growth. I want to know what interesting challenges the position will bring, I am not interested in doing rote work. If I can't learn something new and interesting in a job, it's not for me.
Having been burned once, I ask about expected overtime, making it clear that I don't object to working overtime for a deadline, but I am not interested in working overtime as a way of life. Better to know up front.
Describe fully the complete build and release cycle including who is involved and how long it takes to get things moved from dev to test to ... to prod.
It is surprising how many 'top' companies don't have this nailed, and how much pain a badly implemented process ultimately causes.
What I've found very interesting to ask is:
This has yielded a lot of very good insights into what people really think about their environments and how comfortable they feel speaking up about them. Usually starts a very good dialog and sometimes gives a glimpse into contended issues within the team.
What I would want is to get a sense of the top management, because their attitude will trickle down to the entire company.
Is everything just a "business decision", or do they take an interest in and care about people?
It shows up in how they treat employees, vendors, contractors, and customers. Do they pay bills on time, or do they "age" them? Do their customers like working with them? Do they have a good reputation in the business community?
You can't ask them these things directly, but you can do your homework and find out.
If the answer involves a vending machine - run.
I didn't see these mentioned. Apologies if I overlooked.
I notice : "How much does it pay?" didn't make it on the list .. :P and I wonder why not! It's a key factor!
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Garrett Blackburn and Matt Hinson threw a pair of gems, and Kinston Post 43 did what first-place teams do best — it capitalized on its opponent's mistakes and grinded out the rest as it swept Wayne County Post 11 5-4 and 3-2 in an Area I East Division doubleheader at Mount Olive College on Tuesday.
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"Blackburn is my horse," Battle said. "He's going to work for us and do exactly what we want, and that's win ballgames."
While Blackburn was busy pulling the cart with 119 pitches, Post 11 was busy filling it up for the visitors.
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"Everyone had a part in tonight, from those who were in the field to the ones in the dugout and even the fans cheering our players on," Battle said. "It was just a total-team effort."
Game 2 featured more of the same.
Hinson, dubbed the "Professor" by Battle, gave a lecture on how to get it done in the extra-inning affair.
Like Blackburn, Hinson went the distance, then added one more frame in the nine-inning game — the teams played two seven-inning contests. He struck out nine, walked three, and scattered three hits across eight frames.
Deters pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the save and the sweep.
"Hinson took everyone to school," Battle joked. "He taught a clinic on how to pitch. And Will did exactly what we asked him to do — save it for us."
Sammy West went 2-for-4 in Game 2 — Kinston's only player with more than one hit in either game — and Deters drove in a run on a two-out single in the sixth to tie it at 2-all.
The score stood until VeQuain Joyner scored on a wild pitch in the ninth.
Deters then closed the door, and gave Post 43 its fourth straight win to match a season high heading into tonight's division tilt at Wilson Post 13.
"I couldn't be more pleased with my guys than I am right now," Battle said. "Let's just hope this continues on."
Notes: Game 1 of Rocky Mount Post 58's doubleheader with Albemarle-Elizabeth City Post 84 on Tuesday was suspended due to rain in the seventh in a 4-4 tie, and Game 2 was postponed to an undecided date. Rocky Mount (3-5, 3-1) and Kinston are tied for first in the loss column. … Game 1 between Kinston and Wayne County was delayed for about 30 minutes due to rain. … Post 43 scored three runs with the benefit of a single and three errors, all with two outs, in the third inning of Game 1. Pate was perfect until Wesley Melvin come-backer up the middle with two outs. … The entire doubleheader lasted exactly five hours. … Post 43's sweep denied Post 11 its 800th win in program history, according to the Goldsboro News-Argus.
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Life would become easier if there was a dedicated POM element like
${project.build.sourceEncoding} which could be used to specify the encoding once per entire project. Every plugin could use it as default value:
Adding this element to the POM structure can only happen in Maven 2.1. For Maven 2.0.x, the value can be defined as a property, thus plugins could immediately use
${project.build.sourceEncoding} expression, whatever Maven version is used.
Default Value
Without default value for source encoding, platform encoding is used, which is bad for build reproducibility. Then setting a default value consistently across every Maven plugin will improve build reproducibility.
Proposed default value: ISO-8859-1, which must be supported by every JVM (see java.nio.Charset) and is already the default value for some plugins.
This default value can be coded in POM model for 2.1.x
and in super-pom in Maven 2.0.x:
A check has to be coded in every plugin too, in case Maven version used at runtime does not contain the default value:
Plugins to Modify
Affected Apache plugins:
- maven-changes-plugin (velocity template processing)
- maven-compiler-plugin (source processing)
- maven-invoker-plugin (beanshell script evaluation): MINVOKER-30
- maven-javadoc-plugin (source processing)
- maven-jxr-plugin (source processing)
- maven-plugin-plugin (javadoc extraction, java source generation): MPLUGIN-101, MPLUGIN-100
- maven-pmd-plugin (source analysis)
- maven-resources-plugin (contents filtering)
Affected Codehaus plugins:
- modello-maven-plugin/modello-core (java source generation)
- plexus-maven-plugin (javadoc extraction)
- shitty-maven-plugin (groovy script evaluation)
- taglist-maven-plugin (javadoc extraction)
Please see [0] for the related thread from the mailing list, and [1] for some further descriptions.
[0] http://www.nabble.com/POM-Element-for-Source-File-Encoding-to14930345s177.html
[1] http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Maven-and-File-Encoding-p16301958s177.html


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I found Jean Boenish's philosophical musings less than persuasive. And I don't think my fear of heights was the reason for my bias.
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Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
Chaz Ebert announces the prize-winners of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Barbara's annual playful piece about cats in this year's Cannes offerings.
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Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan" took the Palme d'Or at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
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May 2014 Travel Courses
International Travel Courses for 2014
INQ 177/ARTH 177 A Tale of Two Cities
Instructors: Dr. James Hargrove and Dr. Ken McGraw
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $4300
On location in Paris and London
London and Paris are two of the most influential cities in the history of world civilizations. They have been home to major figures from the history of literature and art. Both of these cities are as much products of the imagination as they are real places. To know a city physically, one must stroll through its streets. But real knowledge of such complex things as cities requires more. It requires context, familiarity with place as evoked, constructed, and reflected in the minds of its inhabitants. How have art and literature shaped our ideas about London and Paris? What do poetry and novels, paintings and buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries tell us about English and French cultures--the cultures that produced two cities often regarded as works of art themselves?
INQ/HIST 277 American Tourist in Rome
Instructor: Dr. Mary Henold and Professor Giuliana Chapman
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $4600
On campus for one week and then on location in Rome
This unique course, taught by an Italian professor and a historian, combines both language instruction and historical study to prepare students for meaningful travel to Rome. Students will spend a week on campus in language study to gain basic communication skills in Italian. They will then spend two weeks in Rome where they will have the opportunity to practice their skills. While in Rome we will read American travelogues and fiction from the 19th and early 20th centuries to explore how Americans have imagined and responded to "the Eternal City" in the past. Students will have the opportunity to experience the same sites visited by earlier American visitors, compare their responses, and write their own travelogues to articulate a twenty-first century perspective on being an American in Rome.
INQ 277 Comparative Education--France
Instructor: Dr. Tim Reynolds
Prerequisites: EDUC 210 and Permission
Fee: $4000
On location in France
Eligible for Fowler Scholarships
The course will be a comparative study of non-American education and international education. Students will be participant observers in international classrooms under the supervision of classroom teachers and an Education faculty member. International travel will allow the students experiential learning in the culture and schools of the host nation.
INQ 277 Fieldwork in Comparative Phonology
Instructor: Dr. Jim Ogier
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $3600
On location in Ireland
Even though Ireland is a relatively small country, it has a great variety of dialects. In this course, students will learn phonetic script and the principles of phonology, and apply them to two very different speech areas within Ireland: Galway and Derry.
INQ 277 Contemporary India in the Shadow of Gandhi
Instructor: Dr. Michael Heller
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $4200
On location in India
Eligible for Fowler Scholarships
This course, designed for students of all interests, backgrounds, and majors, is a cross-disciplinary introduction to India. We will learn not only about contemporary issues such as India's technological advances but also about India's traditional wealth and poverty, religious diversity and her amazingly rich history. We will make our survey of India today through the lens of Mahatma Gandhi's life, as the father of modern India and the world's primary thinker on nonviolent social activism and village-based economics.
INQ 277/RELG 277 Political Religions in Europe: Fascism, Marxism, and Nazism
Instructor: Dr. Paul Hinlicky
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $3900
On location in Slovakia
Eligible for Fowler Scholarships
In this course we will travel to the center of Europe: Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech and Slovak Republics. Here in the period from the end of WWI to the Fall of Communism human passions were harnessed to antidemocratic, totalitarian and often murderous formations so unusual that recent scholars call them "political religions." By this they indicate how these movements filled the vacuum created by the loss of traditional religious faith with new claims of total meaning with which to organize life comprehensively around secular "gods" like nation, race, or class. We will study the texts of these scholars, along with Dr. Hinlicky's new book, Before Auschwitz, in tandem with travelling to significant sites of these political religions. On site we will hear lectures from local experts. We will note how traditional believers responded to these new political religions.
INQ 277/HIST 277 Korea's Modern Trajectory
Instructor: Dr. Stella Xu
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $4500
On location in Korea
Eligible for Fowler Scholarships
Korea has grown in importance to American politics and economy thanks to the rise in prominence of its major electronic brands Samsung and LG, as well as its automobile brands Hyundai and Kia. What happened to Korea during the past five decades? What historical, political, and social events have been behind these drastic transformations in Korea? This class aims to investigate the multifaceted transformation of Korea in the twentieth century, as well as the role of the US in Korea, with focus on four major phases in modern history of Korea: from colonization by Japan from 1910 to 1945, to the tragic Korean War in the 1950s, to a suppressive military dictatorship from the 1950s to the 1980s, and finally miraculous economic success and democracy since the 1990s.
INQ 377/SPAN 377 Language and Culture of Spain
Instructor: Dr. Charlene Kalinoski
Prerequisites: SPAN 202 and Permission
Fee: $4400
On location in Spain
Encounter the contemporary culture of Spain, learn about and see some of the country's most significant cultural artifacts, and practice your language skills through immersion. From our base in Madrid, we will explore the city and venture beyond it to other significant locations and regions to gain a fuller understanding of Spain's past and present. This course is designed to increase cultural literacy and promote the development of spoken Spanish through immersion.
INQ 277/HIST 277 Pausanias' Tour of Greece
Instructor: Dr. Jason Hawke
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $4600
On location in Greece
Pausanias, a 2nd century AD Greek living under Roman rule, visited sites of past glory and wrote an informative travelogue and cultural history of ancient Greece. Students will travel in his footsteps, a journey that will take them to Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Delphi, among other sites. Students will experience firsthand the monuments of ancient Greece and modern presentation of them and confront the landscapes that Pausanias describes. In reflecting upon their own reaction and Pausanias' account of the ancient Greek past and its remains, students will interpret their responses to Greece ancient and modern. By immersing ourselves in Pausanias' account, relevant modern scholarship and visiting the landscapes Pausanias once beheld, we will be able to consider the interplay among the physical and imagined pasts, and think about the ways we construct identities through the conversations we choose to have with those pasts and how we conduct them.
INQ 277 Promotions in Paris
Instructor: Dr. Pamela Galluch
Prerequisites: BUAD 233 and Permission
Fee: $4250
On location in Paris
Eligible for Fowler Scholarships
This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of promotions management in Paris, France. Specifically, this course encourages learning by examining works of art, business atmospheres, traditional media and supporting media. We will stimulate creativity at museums, such as the Louvre and Musée d'Orsay. We will examine sales promotions, including business atmospheres and design, in the shopping district down the Ave de Champs-Elysées. We will examine promotions on billboards, in the métro, on buses, in premier magazines, etc. This course may be used as an elective within the Marketing Concentration.
INQ 177 Rhetoric of Tourism
Instructor: Dr. Erica Cooper
Prerequisite: COMM 101 and Permission
Fee: $4850
On location in South Africa
A rhetorical analysis of how certain high-visibility regions are persuasively constructed to appeal to tourists. What makes one region more attractive to tourists than another? How does the advertising and marketing of a place color the way we perceive it? Designed for students of all interests, backgrounds, and majors, this is a communications course that takes a multidisciplinary approach to tourism from the perspectives of business, cultural studies, social history, and ecology. Emphasis is placed on the complex interrelationships that develop among tourists, residents, businesses, and local governments.
INQ 277 Service and Peacework in Belize
Instructor: Dr. Katie Elmore
Prerequisite: Permission
Fee: $4000
On location in Belize
Eligible for Fowler Scholarships
How can we build global understanding and peace through international development, education, and service? This question will serve as a framework for our experiences with Peacework in Belize. Students will travel to San Ignacio where they will be immersed into the local community and culture through service-learning experiences. With a primary school as our service base, we will work side-by-side with local teachers, school leaders, and laborers in a developing community. Students will also explore the local Belizean culture, history, and natural beauty through music, food, and day excursions beyond the school site. To be effective in our service, students will study the culture and history of Belize as well as the current governmental and social support systems. These varied experiences offer students much to think about as they consider the differences between their own lives and life in a developing country. The entire trip will be contextualized with readings, shared writings, and many conversations.
INQ 277 Stockholm on the Water
Instructor: Dr. James Peterson
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $3600
On location in Stockholm
Eligible for Fowler Scholarships
Stockholm, Sweden has pioneered an influential and complex model of social ethics. It is the birthplace of social security from birth to death to implement lagom- to each an equal share, but it is also the home of a popular royal family in their palaces, Ingvar Kamprad (the founder of IKEA who is often listed as the world's wealthiest businessman), and the ultimate personal distinction of the Nobel Prizes. To make our study of the city's social choices manageable, we will focus on the multifaceted interaction of Stockholm life with water. Stockholm is built on 14 islands where Lake Malaren meets the Baltic Sea, such that it is one third parks, one third city, and one third water. We will start each day at a site where Stockholm and water meet and then free students to complete a project investigating that point of interaction. What are the social choices and underlying ethic that shape how the people of Stockholm live with one another and ever present water.
Domestic Travel Courses for 2014
INQ 177 Adventure into Nature
Instructor: Dr. Steve Powers
Prerequisites: Permission
Fee: $310
This course is an adventure into nature examining the geology, plants, and animals of the southern Appalachians and their interactions with each other and their human inhabitants. These interactions will be experienced in a classroom setting as well as first hand through a week-long trip into the southern Appalachians that will include many strenuous hikes, wilderness camping and snorkeling in rivers. This course will provide students with a background in natural history, experience with resources commonly used by amateur and professional naturalists, experience planning and executing adventures into nature, and experience interpreting those adventures within an academic context providing students with the tools necessary for a lifetime of adventuring into nature.
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Becca Adams shared the following story with us about meeting her beloved feline companion Lily at a time when she least expected to adopt a cat.
The story of Lily actually begins 18 years ago, when I met the first love of my life at the SPCA in Virginia Beach, Virginia: a domestic shorthaired cat named Rassa. For 17 happy years, Rassa was my companion, partner in crime and best friend. He was diagnosed with cancer in December 2011. We discussed our options with the vet, and decided to make him comfortable for as long as he maintained his quality of life. Never one to enjoy a change of scenery, he seemed to agree. Rassa left us in March of last year, which is when Lily's story begins.
My husband was out of town on business when I said goodbye to Rassa, so a friend came to stay with me. We stayed active, and during a day trip, she suggested that we stop by the SPCA. I told her I was not ready. The next day she suggested the same thing, and remembering a spring day 17 years earlier, I decided to go, but under no circumstances would I adopt an animal.
The Richmond SPCA is absolutely wonderful. There are two huge cat playrooms with large tunnels and hiding spaces and, for the more reserved kitties, large, private condos. I walked past Lily twice, thinking what a beautiful cat she was. A predominantly white calico with one blue and one green eye, Lily seemed rather interested in me. My mom had calico cats and they definitely had a fair share of "cattitude," so I kept going.
My friend said she'd found the perfect cat for me. Thinking, "yeah, yeah, sure," and feeling a bit guilty, I agreed to meet this perfect cat. Of course, Lily came prancing into the room. She walked right over to me, jumped in my lap and gave me a healthy head butt in the face. She looked me square in the face and sat down in my lap.
Two hours later, Lily and I were headed home.
She's been with us for exactly a year, and has "adopted" two other rescue cats as her babies. I couldn't imagine life with another cat a year ago, and now I can't imagine my life without Lily.
Share your rescue story in the comments or email us at [email protected].
Oh, what a gorgeous, sweet pussycat your Lily is. I am so joyful that you found each other, that she found you when your heart was aching for Rassa. In fact, you helped and saved each other. Bless you both. Becca, enjoy your life with your precious Lily.
I wish you all the best with Lily. I can relate as my beloved 18 year old Asia passed away this January from liver failure. Right before she became terminally ill, a little stray cat came into our lives. A year ago, I too couldn't imagine life without Asia -- but now I couldn't imagine life without little Anne Shirley.
Yes Becca, see how this little bundle of life just fell into yours and helped to heal your heart. Both Lily and Becca, you both are wonderful and I do understand so well how new life heals. May you have happy lives!
I lost my calico, Kelly, 3 years ago (almost to the day) to CRF. A few days after, i decided to go to the local shelter - not expecting to find a friend. A maine coon caught my eye and when I picked her up, she snuggled in. She went home with me that day and helped me greatly with the grieving process. She was not a replacement for Kelly but a new friend. I still miss my special girl but can't imagine life without my crazy, loving Abbie..... Best wishes to you and thank you for adopting!
What a beautiful cat with a great ending. I lost my cats they were twins. When I went to get my cat there was these two one born right after the other. In my hear I know I had to taken them both instead of just the one Simba and Cougar was tere names Simba passed away 2006 from blader and kidney problems and in Oct 2008 I found out Cougar had diagets and passed away Aug 2010 they were just eight weeks old when I got them both. I know what is it to love and lose that special animal in you life. I am so happy for yu that you took Lily home and gave her a great life.
I have taken in many cats and have three at the moment, had to put down an old one last fall a stray we took in 2 years ago. It is just wonderfull these stories of saved animals it makes life worth living which probably will not be much longer for me I am almost 80 and worry about the three I have if my wife and I pass.
Becca, I am so glad you had a really good friend who was persistent enough to know you could give another sweet kitty a great home. And then, you adopted two more! You have a great heart!! I love to hear such stories because having worked in rescue for over 20 years, it can really get discouraging trying to find really good homes for our little babies. I have 5 cats, I do not recommend that folks get over-catted but sometimes that's just the way it is. I have a beautiful blue seal-point female named "Cloud", a sweet male cat name after his previous owner, "Robert Stachowitz", a black male named Mr. Sanders, another Siamese mix, (was a feral cat in the neighborhood) named Percy, and another tall slant grey and white male with long white stockings, named "Moe". I inherited "Moe" from an elderly lady who had to go into a nursing home. So that is my menagerie plus an Australian Shepherd mix named Noel who endures being loved on, and slept on by seveal of them. They think she is their mother....oh well such is life!
What a wonderful story. For the last 16 yrs we have been blessed with our four Burmese kitties.
We lost two of the four last year, my little MeMe (Marion Elizabeth), and our Simon. Our remaining two are glued to hip at all times. Samson turned 15 in Feb., & Sidney (Simon's litter mate) is almost 17! They r our "fur children' We will most definitely rescue more when the time comes...
I hope that you hv many wonderful years with yr new fur child! Cats r amazing animals and it is a shame that more people don't know that!
Good luck!
Cats know who they want to go home with. Two of mine picked me out and did the same to me - I'm going home with you. Beau died over a year ago. But Winston is now with me. He's a love bug and a Mama's boy. I love him dearly.


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A Virginia-based IT company has helped the Defense Information Systems Agency advance its goal for core network services. Command Information provided strategic planning and analysis for Ipv6 at DISA. Jeremy Duncan, Command Information's Director of IPv6 Products and Services, joins us with more.
Each host or computer on the Internet requires an Internet Protocol address in order to communicate. The growth of the Internet has created a need for more addresses than are possible with the current system, IPv4. Federal News Radio follows the government's implementation of IPv6.


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Downsizing Blog
50 Years of Federal Spending
Fifty years ago, one of the biggest-spending presidents in U.S. history was settling into office after coming to power the prior November. Lyndon Johnson signed into law Medicare, Medicaid, and hundreds of subsidy programs for the states and cities.
FEMA Disaster Declarations
I am writing a study on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and looking at the issue of presidential disaster declarations. Under the 1988 Stafford Act, a state governor may request that the president declare a "major disaster" in the state if "the disaster is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments."
What Do American Indians Deserve: Name Changes or Policy Changes?
The movement to rid sports teams of Indian-themed names has picked up steam in recent years. In Washington D.C., activists have long pressured the Redskins to find a new name, but so far football team owner Dan Snyder is not budging.
Chairman Ryan's Budget: A Mixed Bag of Reforms
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his budget proposal yesterday, his last as committee chairman. This budget differs greatly from the budget request submitted by President Obama last month. Ryan would "cut" federal spending by $5.1 trillion over the next 10 years and calls upon Congress to pass pro-growth tax reform. However, Ryan's budget is still a mixed bag from a small-government perspective.
Chairman Ryan's Supposed Budget Slashing
Chairman Ryan's budget released today "cuts spending by $5.1 trillion over the next ten years," the document claims. Similarly, the headline from the Washington Post says that Ryan's budget "would slash $5 trillion over next decade."
Bureaucracy, Boondoggles, and Bad Behavior
In catching up on news about the federal government today, I noticed that articles fit into three categories: bureaucracy, boondoggles, and bad behavior. On any given day, it seems, the Washington Post and other outlets have new tales of BB&BB to report. No wonder most Americans want to cut federal spending.
Dan Snyder's Indian Initiative
The owner of the Washington Redskins, Dan Snyder, has launched the Original Americans Foundation to "provide resources that offer genuine opportunities for tribal communities." Snyder and his staff have recently visited a couple dozen Indian reservations, and they are determined to "work as partners to tackle the troubling realities facing so many tribes across our country."
Privatizing the Royal Mail
Britain privatized its Royal Mail in 2013, proceeding with an initial public offering of shares that raised about $2.7 billion. The government pursued the reform because the company faced falling mail volume, and it needed to reduce costs and increase innovation. Similar issues face the U.S. Postal Service.
The Federal Spying Budget
The latest revelations regarding the NSA's bulk data collection illustrate the vastness of the government's spying apparatus. That vastness costs taxpayers a lot of money.
Putin's Animal Farm
In today's Washington Post, Pamela Constable describes the scene in Crimea, and it reminds me of George Orwell's Animal Farm.


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So tell me, why should a tank be able to be top 10 DPS on over half the fights in the raid? This is taking into account 10 and 25 man.
Tanks are there to tank things, to absorb damage, maybe do 2/3 the damage of a DPS class, not to straight up beat all the DPS in the raid. That's completely idiotic, how can anyone look at numbers like that and think Vengeance is acceptable as it is now? Completely idiotic.


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Industry seeks tweaks to DoD Better Buying Power
Friday - 10/5/2012, 4:03pm EDT
Two years ago, Defense Department acquisition officials rolled out new guidance aiming to reform Pentagon purchasing practices.
Now, Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, is promising a Better Buying Power 2.0, which will tweak some of the original guidance.
That's good news to many in the defense industry, who hope the changes provide more nuanced guidance — as opposed to strict blanket policies — to agency contracting officers.
Stan Soloway, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, told In Depth with Francis Rosethe time is ripe for an update.
"Any time you have initiatives in government, you have to a) revisit them, and b) update them," he said. "If you leave them static, it's hard enough to get them off the shelf. But if you keep moving, and you keep refining them, and keep the messaging going and so forth, I think it's very helpful."
Soloway's group, a trade association which represents many of the largest defense contractors, wrote to Kendall urging changes in three particular areas.
Contract length
The original guidance called for limiting the lengths of most contracts to three years in a bid to increase competition.
But DoD officials have acknowledged the provision has been "either over-interpreted in the field or overstated in the initiative," Soloway said.
"There are going to be many cases where a longer contract length makes sense for the government, and competition just for the sake of competition doesn't get you anything," he said. For competition to matter it must be used as a tool to drive greater efficiency and innovation, he added.
Further, in many cases, a three-year window isn't adequate for the work being performed, he said. Instead, the solution is looking at contract length as a "reflection of the mission requirement, rather than having contract length be a predetermined, arbitrary factor," Soloway said.
Cost vs. value
Another area Soloway's group hopes Kendall and DoD procurement officials tackle is the "overwhelming tendency" of agencies — according to PSC's letter — to use lowest-price technically acceptable (LPTA) contracting methods.
Under LPTA, if a company's bid meets the minimum technical qualifications for a piece of work, agency buyers are instructed only to consider a bidder's price to determine the awardee.
Soloway said, in practice, agency procurement officials should more carefully weigh the tradeoffs between cost and technical specifications.
"We're not talking about gilding the lily here; we're talking about reasonable cost and technical tradeoffs," Soloway said. "We've seen those go by the board in favor of this kind of myopic focus on cost."
Cutting profits in cost-reduction efforts
In the current budget climate, agencies are mindful of making sure contract awards are not swallowed up by excessive profits to companies.
"What we're seeing agencies do is not looking at appropriate profits for the work being done ... But instead arbitrarily just sort of pressuring the profit side as a means of meeting cost targets," Soloway said.
The profit margins earned by defense contractors "tend to be modest," often less than those earned for work done in the private sector according to the group's letter.
As with contract length, profits should match the nature of the work — and the amount of risk companies assume in carrying out the work, Soloway said.
"What we're saying is don't overpay ... But you have to give reasonable returns on investment for companies to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to invest in performance," Soloway said.
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I begin this commentary with the fundamentals. Performance for municipal bonds since the start of 2014 has been strong thus far. Year-to-date (YTD), municipals have returned 6.18% as measured by the Barclays Municipal Bond Index and 8.20% for the Barclays High Yield Municipal Bond Index. In my opinion, the broad muni market has demonstrated resiliency, with the exception of June, when supply was strong and selling of tobacco and Puerto Rico bonds depressed the market.
The municipal bond market, as measured by the Barclays Municipal Bond Index, eked out a small gain for the month of July, and in my view, this is significant. The forces of what has been a strong U.S. stock market so far this year, and continued evidence of some economic improvements, have interrupted what had been a strong first six months of the year for municipal bonds, generally turning investors toward taxable bonds. Still, the volatility of some equity markets, which appeared to be brought about by elements of the conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and Iraq, combined with the default (again) by Argentina, could potentially leave investors favoring municipal bonds.
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RYAN VREDE writes that Heyneke Meyer's faithfulness to Morné Steyn was largely predictable but still utterly disappointing.
Steyn is not so good that he is indispensable to the Springboks. There is not an absence of alternatives. Yet such has been the faith his Springbok coaches have shown in him – despite form that has veered between mediocre and poor in the last three years – that one would think Steyn's absence would be terminal. It won't.
A long professional association with Meyer means I had a sense that he wouldn't thrust rookie Johan Goosen into a Test against the world champions on their home soil as a starter. He would have had concerns about the damage a poor performance would have on the kid's confidence. He remains the flyhalf Meyer sees as the future. He should have been the present. Yet Meyer's fear of failure determined Steyn's stay of execution.
Meyer will argue against this assertion. He'll speak of the importance of continuity in selection, of believing in the much-maligned game plan. These things are important, but Goosen could have been accommodated within the existing structures. His kicking game is good, while his ball-in-hand play would have given the Springboks a new dimension in field positions where they 'play'. Meyer would also put forward Goosen's untested temperament under pressure. Yet he has said to me on countless occasions that temperament is only forged when players are put in pressure situations. I'm also certain most in the South African rugby fraternity could tolerate defeat if there was a clear understanding of what Meyer was trying to achieve by running a rookie 10 in his first year as coach.
Still, Meyer could build a case for not starting Goosen based on the aforementioned reservations. Not so for continuing to ignore the claims of Pat Lambie, who possesses every technical skill Steyn does and then some. Lambie is viewed primarily as a fullback but has played extensively at flyhalf in Super Rugby. He is 21 years old, but is well advanced of that in terms of his capacity to negotiate the technical, physical and mental demands of the game at its elite level.
Goosen starting would have been first prize, Lambie's run-on a close second. Yet we'll have to endure another week of Steyn's mediocrity. There is a perplexing desperation that accompanies his selection. Without wanting to come across as defeatist or naive regarding the results-driven nature of the game, the Springboks are never expected to win in New Zealand. This rings even truer with a clutch of key senior players missing. The team isn't in a position where it has to settle on a No 10 for an impending World Cup. There was room and reason to explore alternatives to Steyn.
Steyn has another lifeline for his Test career, as he did when Peter de Villiers selected him against a B-grade All Blacks side in Port Elizabeth in 2011. Butch James had the inside lane up to that point, but Steyn's goal-kicking was put forward (by his influential Bulls team-mates within the squad) as motivation for his reinstatement at flyhalf. I doubt Steyn – the ultimate survivor – will manage to keep his flame burning in Dunedin. Meyer's response then will be even more telling.
I had hoped Meyer would shatter the widely-held perception that he is conservative. I still do. But Steyn's continued selection does his cause in this regard no good.


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