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Elham Mafi-Kreft
Contact Information
(812) 855-2775
1309 E. 10th Street
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- Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Economics
- Bloomington
- BS, West Virginia University, 1999
- MA, West Virginia University, 2002
- PhD, West Virginia University, 2003
Professional Experience
- Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Clinical Assistant Professor, 2006-Present
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Economics, 2003-2006
- University of Bonn-Germany, Visiting Researcher, 2004
- West Virginia University, Graduate Student Instructor, 1999-2003
Professional Interests
International Financial Institutions, Monetary Policy, European Monetary Union
Selected Publications
- Mafi-Kreft, Elham and Russell S. Sobel (2006), "Does a Less Active Central Bank Lead to Greater Economic Stability? Evidence from the European Monetary Union," The Cato Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter. Read Abstract
- Mafi-Kreft, Elham and Steven F. Kreft. "Importing Credible Monetary Policy: A Way for Transition Economies to Fight Inflation?" Economics Letters, v 92, No.1, July 2006. Read Abstract


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Caner Topaloglu scored the game-winner with one second left as Pinar Karsiyaka beat Tofas SC Bursa 64-63 on the road in an all-Turkish showdown in Group A of the EuroChallenge. Topaloglu and Jon Diebler both scored 12 points while Robert Dixon had 17 points and eight assists. Tofas, who watched as 17-year-old Kenan Sipahi missed a free-throw with eight seconds left, were led by Steven Burtt with 16 points while Chinemelu Elonu had 12 points and 14 rebounds.Just days after Tofas beat Pinar 95-94 in the Turkish league, Tofas went on a 14-1 first quarter run to grab a 16-7 advantage. And the hosts' lead was 21-12 after one period.A Tomislav Rozic triple pushed the lead to 12 points 33-21. Pinar trimmed the margin to five points but trailed 38-31 going into the break.
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Karsiyaka player Onur Kentli"This is our third year in the EuroChallenge. It's an important win on the road as to my exprience. We are playing good in home games. I think we will win our home games. We won the game against Tofas. I congratulate Tofas forthe big fight."
Karsiyaka head coach Ufuk Sarica"This game was the same like the last game in the Turkish league. In the first half we played our worst game in this season. We got the chance this time. We won the game by playing better basketball in the second half."
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Authors: David Maddison, jboner jboner
This tutorial does not explain AOP, so if your new to the idea of AOP then please check out JavaWorld's series of articles to get you started.
What this tutorial will do is to try to walk you through a simple example on how you can write, define and weave in an aspect into your application.
Download the latest release and unzip it into the relevant location. This tutorial is based on the 2.0 version of AspectWerkz but works equally with 1.0 final.
The latest distribution can be found here.
After installation you need to set the
ASPECTWERKZ_HOME environment variable to point to the installation directory. This is because quite a few of the scripts use this to find the required libraries. How this variable is set depends on you OS. Since I'm using Linux I've amended my
.bashrc file, windows users could do this by using the control panel.
The Test Application
Now we've installed aspectwerkz, we need a test application into which to weave our aspects. As is the tradition, I'm going to use the standard HelloWorld application.
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package testAOP; public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String args[]) { HelloWorld world = new HelloWorld(); world.greet(); } public String greet() { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } }
This is simply a standard Java application, and can be compiled with
javac -d target HelloWorld.java
Writing the Aspect
Next we need to develop the aspect which will contain the code to be weaved into our HelloWorld class. In this example I'm going to output a statement before and after the greet method is called.
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package testAOP; import org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.joinpoint.JoinPoint; public class MyAspect { public void beforeGreeting(JoinPoint joinPoint) { System.out.println("before greeting..."); } public void afterGreeting(JoinPoint joinPoint) { System.out.println("after greeting..."); } }
Notice the signature of the aspect methods. They need to take this
JoinPoint argument otherwise the AspectWerkz weaver won't be able to identify the method when the aspect is weaved in, (and can leave you scratching your head as to why the weaving isn't working!).
(Note: for 2.0, specific optimizations can be applied by using the StaticJoinPoint interface or no interface at all. Please refer to the AspectWerkz 2.0 documentation)
To compile this aspect class you'll need to include the
aspectwerkz-0.10.jar in the classpath, i.e.
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javac -d target -classpath $ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/lib/aspectwerkz-2.0.RC1.jar MyAspect.java
For AspectWerkz 1.0 final:
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javac -d target -classpath $ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/lib/aspectwerkz-1.0.jar MyAspect.java
Defining the Aspect
At this point we have the test application and the actual aspect code, but we still need to tell AspectWerkz where to insert the aspect methods (pointcuts), and which aspect method to actual insert (advice).
Specifying pointcuts and advice can be done using either of (or a mixture of), the following methods.
Using an XML definition file
The XML definition file is just that, an XML file which specifies the pointcuts and advice using XML syntax. Here's one that will weave our MyAspect class into our HelloWorld program (
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<aspectwerkz> <system id="AspectWerkzExample"> <package name="testAOP"> <aspect class="MyAspect"> <pointcut name="greetMethod" expression="execution(* testAOP.HelloWorld.greet(..))"/> <advice name="beforeGreeting" type="before" bind-to="greetMethod"/> <advice name="afterGreeting" type="after" bind-to="greetMethod"/> </aspect> </package> </system> </aspectwerkz>
Most of this should be pretty straight forward, the main part being the aspect tag. Whilst I'm not going to explain every bit of this definition file, (I'll leave that up to the official documentation), I will explain a few important points.
When specifying the
pointcut the name can be any label you like, it's only used to bind the
advice. The expression should be any valid expression occording to the Join point selection pattern language however you MUST make sure that the full package+class name is included in the pattern. If this isn't done, or if the pattern is slightly wrong, AspectWerkz won't be able to correctly identify the greet method.
In the
advice tag, the
name attribute should be the name of the method in the aspect class, (specified in the
aspect tag), which you wish to insert at the specific joinpoint. Type is set to
after, or
around, depending on where exactly you wish to inser the method in relation to the joinpoint.
bind-to specifies the name of the
pointcut to which this
advice will be bound.
This example identifies the
HelloWorld.greet() method and assigns it the pointcut label
greetMethod. It then inserts the
MyAspect.beforeGreeting method just before
greet is called, and
MyAspect.afterGreeting just after the
greet method returns.
Using Annotations
Annotations provide a way to add metadata to the actual aspect class, rather than specifying it in a seperate definition file. Aspect annotations are defined using JavaDoc style comments a complete list of which is available here. Using annotations, our aspect class would look as follows:
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package testAOP; import org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.joinpoint.JoinPoint; public class MyAspectWithAnnotations { /** * @Before execution(* testAOP.HelloWorld.greet(..)) */ public void beforeGreeting(JoinPoint joinPoint) { System.out.println("before greeting..."); } /** * @After execution(* testAOP.HelloWorld.greet(..)) */ public void afterGreeting(JoinPoint joinPoint) { System.out.println("after greeting..."); } }
After adding annotations you need to run a special AspectWerkz tool. This is done after compiling your aspect class files, (i.e. after running
javac). The tool, known as the
AnnotationC compiler, can be invoked as follows, passing in the source directory (
.), and the class directory (
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java -cp $ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/lib/aspectwerkz-2.0.RC1.jar org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.annotation.AnnotationC . target
For AspectWerkz 1.0 final:
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java -cp $ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/lib/aspectwerkz-1.0.jar org.codehaus.aspectwerkz.annotation.AnnotationC . target
More information on the
AnnotationC compiler can be found here.
Although using annotations means you don't have to write all aspect details in XML, you do still have to create a tiny XML 'stub' which tells the AspectWerkz runtime system which Java classes it should load and treat as aspects. An example of this is show below:
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<aspectwerkz> <system id="AspectWerkzExample"> <aspect class="testAOP.MyAspectWithAnnotations "/> </system> </aspectwerkz>
Weaving in and running the Aspect
There are basically two ways to actually weave the code together, one called online weaving performs the weaving as the classes are loaded into the JVM. The other is offline weaving, and is done before the code is actually run.
Using online weaving
When using online weaving you need to decide which JVM your going to use. This is because the hook which allows AspectWerkz to weave the classes together on the fly, is different in Sun HotSpot (where JDI/HotSwap is used), as apposed to BEA JRockit (where a PreProcessor is used). The default is setup to use Sun JDK 1.4.2, however if you want to use JRockit, simply edit the
bin/aspectwerkz file (
aspectwerkz.bat on windows), locate the "Sample Usage for JRockit" line and uncomment the command. Of course, remember to comment out the existing Java command above it.
Using JRockit is the preferred choice since it will not only perform much better (no need to run in debug mode, which using HotSwap, e.g. Sun and IBM, requires) and be more stable, but will also work on JDK 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.
Performing the weaving is then just a matter of using the
aspectwerkz command line tool to run
java with the relevant classes, pointing it to the definition file, (even if using annotations you still need the 'stub' definition file), i.e.
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$ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/bin/aspectwerkz -Daspectwerkz.definition.file=aop.xml -cp target testAOP.HelloWorld
This produces the expected output:
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before greeting... Hello World! after greeting...
Using offline weaving
With offline weaving, the test applications classes are modified on the disk with the aspect calls. That is to say offline weaving amends your actual class definition, (as opposed to online weaving which doesn't modify any classes). To perform offline weaving, you use the
aspectwerkz command line tool with the
-offline option, as follows:
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$ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/bin/aspectwerkz -offline aop.xml -cp target target
The last option on the command (
target) tells AspectWerkz where your classfiles are and is very important that you type in correctly, else nothing will get weaved into your target classes and you will wonder why nothing is happening.
Running the aspect is then just a matter of invoking your main class, although you still need some of the AspectWerkz jar's on your classpath, and you still need to provide an XML definition file:
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java -cp $ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/lib/aspectwerkz-2.0.RC1.jar:target -Daspectwerkz.definition.file=aop.xml testAOP.HelloWorld
For AspectWerkz 1.0 final:
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java -cp $ASPECTWERKZ_HOME/lib/aspectwerkz-1.0.jar:target -Daspectwerkz.definition.file=aop.xml testAOP.HelloWorld
Note: Windows users need to replace the ":" path separator by a ";"
This produces the expected output:
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before greeting... Hello World! after greeting...
Now we have learned how to:
- write a simple aspect in pure Java
- define the aspect using annotations and XML
- weave the aspect into your application using online and offline mode
- run it
Want more?
Then read the next tutorial Hijacking Hello World or the online documentation
Want to use AOP in your appplication server?
Then start by reading this dev2dev article on how to enable AOP in WebLogic Server (the concepts are generic an works for any application server).
This tutorial is based on a tutorial written by David Maddison (with modifications and enhancements by jboner jboner)


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MOREHEAD CITY – Taylor Miller, a former Division I college athlete, is used to persevering through strenuous tasks.
The former Appalachian State baseball player had the battle of his lifetime during Wednesday's third day of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament.
Miller reeled in his first marlin – and one that now stands as the leader in the Blue Marlin category.
He was the angler aboard the boat Hatteras Fever II, which brought a 465.3-pound marlin back to the weight station.
The new catch surpassed the 423.5-pound blue that was caught by the boat Sensation on Monday.
"It is a catch of a lifetime," said Miller. "I hope to catch something bigger than this one day, but today is unreal."
Hatteras Fever II, a Ricky Scarborough 54' from Buxton, hooked its catch at 12:19 p.m. The fight lasted for nearly 30 minutes, then approached the weight station at approximately 5:30 p.m.
The Hatteras Fever II, captained by Buddy Hooper, also competed last year.
"On the boat, it's organized chaos," Miller said. "Once that fish came on board, there were a lot of high-fiving and a lot of cheering. It was an incredible moment."
Hooper said they were about 25 miles out where the marlins were aggressive.
"We had to run about 25 miles to where the marlin were feeding," he said. "We were fishing for about 20 minutes and he came under the boat and hooked himself, and the fight was on.
"We just got lucky."
Miller said the marlin latched onto the line and continued to swim away from the boat.
"The fish took off," he said. "When it ate (the bait) it was mad. It probably burned out 400 yards of line. Once we got it stopped, Captain Buddy turned the boat around and chased that fish down."
Once it was on board the Hatteras Fever II, the crew still was unsure if it was good enough for first place.
The criteria for a marlin to be brought in is that is must be at least 400 pounds or 110 feet long from tail to its jaw.
"We knew it was going to be close, but we didn't know," Miller said.
Out of 100 boats entered in the tournament, 97 fished on Wednesday.
The wind was blowing 7 to 12 knots with three to five-foot waves. Because of rough conditions on Tuesday, all but 10 boats used one of its two lay days then.
There are three fishing days remaining, and Thursday's conditions are not looking good.
The Hatteras Fever II crew is in line to win more than $500,000 of the $1,154,625 purse – if it holds up. The record catch of an 831-pound blue marlin was caught by Summertime Blue in 2000.
"It's crazy to think that something like that could happen," Miller said. "We are praying and hoping that's the case, but we are not counting anything before it's done."
On the day, there were 19 releases – 10 blue marlin, five white marlin and four sailfish.
The boat Dancin' Outlaw claimed $2,000 for releasing the first blue of the day.
Bil Buster's 64.8-pound yellowfin tuna takes the lead in the tuna division. The boat is captained by John Stelle. The angler is John Casalaspro.
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Navy's ship IT modernization program faces budget-related delays
Wednesday - 2/20/2013, 5:45am EST
The Navy, which is at the beginning of an ambitious effort to modernize and streamline the IT infrastructure on virtually all of its warships, likely will have to push back its plans to install a system known as CANES on more than a half dozen vessels in 2013.
The Navy's forecast is the result of budget pressure in the current year and comes just over a week before automatic budget cuts are set to kick in. Irrespective of the impending March 1 sequestration cuts, the Pentagon already had told the service to cancel all previously-scheduled ship maintenance in the third and fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 if Congress had not come to some resolution on the current year's budget by Feb. 15.
In connection with the loss of those maintenance availabilities, officials currently predict they'll have to cancel around eight of the CANES installations the Navy had planned for 2013, said Rear Adm. William Leigher, who serves on the Navy's Pentagon staff as director of warfighting integration.
CANES, the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program, is the Navy's intended remedy to the fact that currently, each ship in the fleet is its own floating IT stovepipe. Few shipboard networks are designed exactly the same way, and there are at least three broader networks that serve the entire fleet. CANES aims to consolidate all of that into a single, standards-based architecture.
Looking for other options for installation
The system is currently being installed on its very first ship, the U.S.S. Milius, and is roughly 30 percent complete. The Navy had planned a total of 26 installations this year on its way to 192 ships by 2020 under a full deployment plan it prepared for presentation to industry in December.
Rear Adm. William Leigher, director of warfare integration for information dominance, Navy
Officials previously said that they needed to schedule CANES installations during those prescheduled, exhaustive overhaul periods, because replacing and upgrading the full battery of networking equipment is an extremely intrusive process. The Navy is having the work performed under the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command's preexisting multiple-award Global Installation Contract, which includes four vendors.
The Navy, Leigher told a luncheon in Arlington, Va., sponsored by AFCEA's Washington chapter, is investigating other options such as outfitting ships with CANES while they're parked at piers outside of their scheduled maintenance periods or launching service life extension programs to keep the legacy IT systems on a given ship running for a while longer.
He suggested some of those options might be available if the reduced steaming hours the Navy has already implemented, such as the delayed deployment of the U.S.S. Truman, remain in place.
"But I think the other piece that gets pressurized is what the global force management system demands, and how that prioritizes how we spend our money," he said. "One of the things that had to happen in order for the Truman not to sail was to back off of the [two-carrier presence in the Middle East]. If that changes though, it changes this again. But right now we would see changes to about eight ships."
Stepping stone to less complexity
It's not yet clear how the delays would impact CANES' overall cost or schedule. Navy officials have been proud of the program so far, saying that the use of commercial standards and competition caused it to beat initial cost estimates by more than 40 percent in the design phase of the project.
Leigher said CANES also is one of the stepping stones the Navy needs to start bringing more simplicity to a vast IT enterprise that up until now has been excessively complex.
"I envy many of you with 20,000-seat networks," he said. "If you take our NMCI network alone, we're talking about 320,000 seats. It's a daunting task, and when you have weak governance in an enterprise that big, it's really hard. We've got to get away from this complexity model."
On the shore-side of the Navy's IT operation, the service began making its infrastructure less complex. Over the past two years, it's been inventorying its data centers, applications and servers and imposing governance designed to cut out costs and begin the process of migrating disparate technology systems to a future cloud-based architecture.
Leigher said CANES will at least give the afloat side of the Navy a common network architecture, but it's still wrestling through how to leverage concepts like cloud computing on deployed ships, where real-time connections to DoD's global information grid almost are always limited, and in the case of submarines, intentionally nonexistent.
"We've got to figure out what this means for warfighting," he said. "Do you get an advantage if you can get all the data you need to do anti-submarine warfare in the western Pacific? Do you get better visibility amongst the task forces? That's what we have to figure out. We've got a couple of pilot programs with the Office of Naval Research with the Navy Tactical Cloud, and it's going to go through and look at anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare as vignettes to understand how we do this. At the same time, we have to take the data center closures we've been doing for the last year-and-a-half and bring that into our (enterprise resource planning) systems as well, so that we can see a seamless environment between our operational picture, our intelligence picture and our business environment."
US to cut carrier fleet in Persian Gulf to 1
Navy details two rounds of budget cutbacks for 2013
Navy begins installing common IT architecture for entire fleet
Navy says CANES network is 44 percent cheaper than expected


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The Illinois Board of Elections was formed in 1973 on an act of the Illinois General Assembly. The board came as response from the 1970 Illinois Constitution calling for a central elections authority[1].
The State Board of Elections in Illinois is governed by an eight-person board consisting of four Republicans and four Democrats. There is a requirement that two members from each party reside in Cook County and the other two members of each party reside in Downstate Illinois, which is outside of Cook County[1].
Selection of members
The Governor of Illinois first selects the four members from his own party to serve on the Board. Then, the Governor appoints four members from a list provided by the highest-ranking member in the opposition party. Board members serve staggered four-year terms. Also, the Board elects a Chairman and Vice Chairman of opposite political parties[1].
Campaign finance reporting
The State Board of Elections is responsible under the law to provide all campaign finance reporting forms, develop a system of record-keeping for public inspection, to make sure all candidates and committee have their campaign finance reports in compliance, provide candidates who filed for office all necessary manuals on campaign finance law, and report illegal activities to law enforcement and other authorities[2].
Campaign finance discipline
The Illinois State Board of Elections is responsible for accepting and investigating complaints of the Illinois Campaign Financing Act. If someone believes a violation of Illinois campaign finance laws have occurred, the first step is to file a complaint with the State Board of Elections[3]. The complaint must be verified by the State Board of Elections before any investigations can be conducted[3].
The verification is done through a closed-door hearing that determines if there is justifiable grounds to accept the complaint. If there is not enough evidence to justify the complaint, the complaint is thrown out[4].
If during the verification process is there enough evidence to accept the complaint, then the State Board of Elections holds a public hearing. During the public hearing, the accused campaign committee is given a chance to rebut the complaint. The State Board of Elections has up to 60 days after the hearing to render a decision[4].
If the Board determines the accused party was guilty of violating the law, an offer is made to the campaign to take corrective action. This is administered through a written order stipulating the action[4]. In some cases, the action may involve a civil fine. The State Board of Elections cannot impose any civil fines over $5,000 except for committees formed for statewide offices which have a $10,000 fine limit. The State Board of Elections at any time can refer a complaint to the Attorney General regardless if it involves civil or criminal law violations[5].
See also
External links
- IL State Board of Elections Website
- 2010 Illinois campaign finance manual
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Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127 - Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano; English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiiner, conductor
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HAVERHILL, Mass. -- Following the Atlantic Hockey Association directors' annual spring meeting, which took place in Boston earlier this week, commissioner Bob DeGregorio announced that the Atlantic Hockey 2012 postseason tournament will have a new format.
"The Directors have agreed to a 12-team format, with all teams seeded based on the results of the regular season standings," stated DeGregorio. "The top four teams will receive a bye in the first round. The first-round match-ups will be the 5th seed hosting the 12th seed, the 6th seed hosting the 11th seed, the 7th seed hosting the 10th seed, and the 8th seed hosting the 9th seed. This series will be a best two-out-of-three."
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Glacier Peak High School teacher Zachary Schaefer and Andrea Bradshaw perform a quickstep during the second annual "Dancing with the Grizzlies" on Saturday. The event, which paired teachers and students with a dance instructor, raised $2,300 for the Maltby Food Bank.
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"Dancing with the Grizzlies" featured Brad Bradshaw, Melinda Torre, Zachary Schaefer, Andrea Bradshaw, Curran MacMillan, McKenzie Wilkinson, Rebecca Prete, Joel Simler, Darci Desilet, Trevor Wilson, Elizabeth Nightingale and Darrin Divito.
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Dancers Zachary Schaefer and Andrea Bradshaw high five after learning their scores at Glacier Peak High School "Dancing with the Grizzlies" on Saturday.
He showed up with crutches and bandages on his left foot.
"I had her going for a minute before I told her it was a joke," Schaefer said. "She was furious."
The anger subsidized after Schaefer won first place at the dancing competition.
For the second year in a row, Glacier Peak High School hosted the event which mirrors "Dancing With the Stars," an ABC show where celebrities are paired with professional dancers and are judged while they perform ballroom dancing.
Saturday's event raised $2,300 for the Maltby Food Bank.
Schaefer was selected the winner with his quickstep by a panel of judges and the public.
The eight participants were paired up with a dance instructor from the American Ballroom Dance Institute in Bothell.
Participants practiced twice a week for the month of November, and even with all the training, they were nervous about the competition.
Junior McKenzie Wilkinson ignored the audience so she wouldn't get stage fright.
She doesn't like performing in front of a large group of people, but she signed up because she wanted to be more involved with the school.
"It was really fun. I have never danced with a partner before," said McKenzie, 17.
She won third place with her swing. History teacher Darrin Devito won second place.
There were about 500 people who attended the event. "Dancing with the Grizzlies" was also the official start of the school's food drive, organizer and PE teacher Joey Mutcheson said.
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Men's Basketball Limits Charlotte to 20% Three-Point Shooting in 95-51 Exhibition Loss
November 1, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Pfeiffer Universitys Tayron Gibson (Dumfries, VA) would score the first six points, both by threes, before host Charlotte tallied the next 10 moving to a 95-51 exhibition win in mens basketball action Thursday night inside Halton Arena. The Falcons would limit the 49ers to just 4-of-20 (20%) shooting from behind the arc.
After both teams, missed their opening attempts, Gibson would nail down the first points of the night hitting a three 1:43 into the contest. Next time down the floor, Gibson hit another triple putting Pfeiffer up 6-0 just 23 seconds later. Silvere Aluko (Manchester, NH) would stop a 10-0 Charlotte run minutes later as the Falcons trailed 12-8.
Charlotte ended the first 20 minutes on a 14-5 run despite the Falcons holding the Niners to just 2-of-11 (18.2%) from behind the arc. Charlotte would hold a slim advantage in rebounds overall 24-20 besting the Falcons by two in both rebounding categories.
To open the second half, Charlotte rolled out to an 8-0 lead until Montez Singleton (Charlotte, NC) drained a free throw to stop the Niners run. Midway through the second half, Pfeiffer would connect on three-straight attempts from the floor as a Singleton layup, Armin Omanovic (Wilkesboro, NC) lay in and three from Josh Humphrey (Matthews, NC) to get the lead down to 63-36.
Gibson would lead the Falcons with 13 points on the night in 14 minutes of action while Matthews ended with 10 points. Darion Clark led the Niners with a game-high 19. All 17 Falcons would see playing time in Thursday exhibition contest.
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LOS ANGELES – Quan Quoc Nguyen walked into the embrace of his family and supporters Wednesday night. It had been nine months since he had seen them.
The newly released pro-democracy activist from Garden Grove was detained in Vietnam last April, when he was arrested upon arrival at Ho Chi Minh City's airport and accused of terrorism.
"For people who step into danger, their primary concern is the well-being of their family," he said in Vietnamese to reporters who awaited him at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX. "I knew while I was in prison that everyone was supportive of my wife and kids. And for that, I am very grateful."
During his jail stay, the 60-year-old Nguyen was kept in a small cell with another inmate, who he said was there to keep watch on him. He talked to other dissidents and plans to relay a message from one of them at an upcoming news conference.
But he had little communication with the outside world. He had a half-hour meeting with the U.S. Consulate once a month. But that felt more like 15 minutes because of the need for a translator. There was no communication with his family.
His wife, Huong Mai Ngo, sent him books. He never got them.
He wrote her a poem. She never got it.
Nguyen said his wife and family were always on his mind. He ate the food his jailers gave him "because of my wife." He exercised daily, he said, "because of my wife."
Nguyen's release came after U.S. diplomatic pressure, said Diem Do, chairman of the Vietnam Reform Party, also known as the Viet Tan pro-democracy group. Nguyen is an activist with the group and was in Vietnam to conduct "nonviolent training," Do said.
At first, authorities accused him of terrorism. Later, the charges changed and he still faced trial in January – a trial that was unexpectedly postponed. Vietnam's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Nguyen had "confessed to his crime" and asked for leniency to be reunited with his family. His wife said there was no such confession.
Nguyen's release caught his family by surprise.
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"Our dad is coming home," his text messages read.
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For some nine months, the 20-year-old worried about his father's health. Were they feeding him properly? How was he faring? And he was concerned about his mother – "because she loved him so much and she was so worried."


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Whether for you local race scene or all-day epic rides, the alloy Jet 9 is the perfect weapon. Niner has combined short travel with the rolling efficiency of 29"wheels in order to create a race ready bike for those of us who lack big money sponsorships. Niner's patented CVA suspension delivers 80mm of fully active travel with superb compliance and damping via a custom-tuned FOX RP23 shock, while its performance geometry strikes a balance between stability and maneuverability. The Jet 9 also comes equipped with a tapered headtube that increases the rigidity and strength of junction between the headtube and downtube, a critical intersection.
The SID RL fork is one of the most famous forks in cross country racing. Featuring a 15mm Maxle Lite axle and Rock Shox' Black Box carbon crown steerer, the SID RL provides all the stiffness you need at an XC race weight. It provides 100mm of travel and has external rebound adjust, low speed compression to lock, and air pressure spring adjust.
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nice all around bike. great deal, like getting fork for free.fork matches frame well.used on new england trails rocks and roots.for the most part you stay on the seat and ride uphill and down.built w/xt 3x10 build kit. works well w/frameset. maybe a little heavy (28lbs) but it is dual suspension
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Great looking frame and frok combination and superb price for the both.....This is my 2nd Niner in 12 months as already have the SIR 9 set up with single speed / rigid carbon forks. Wanted something a bit more comfortable for the epic all day rides.....
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Great one-bike-quiver for those that ride real mountain bike trails in real mountains. Lots of other bikes have low flatlander bottom brackets, this one is high enough to be proper in rough terrain. Rear suspension is efficient and well-behaved. Top tube is a bit on the long side for a given size, which suits me -- by sizing up you get a bit more wheelbase for stability along with the steeper head angle that steers fast when you need it to this bike is just about right for most types of terrain, great balance of attributes. You will not be dis-pleased with this purchase. All bikes have their issues, though, and this one is no exception. The biggest issue in my mind is cost, by the time you buy this frame and build it you will have at a minimum several hundred dollars more into the resulting bike than you will a complete Trek or Specialized or Giant or etc. The Niner is a nice ride, but it is not worth the premium in terms of performance, it may be worth the premium to an individual in terms of bragging rights for being on a boutique rig. I would not consider this frameset again, having owned one for two years, unless I already had a build kit to put on it. If you are buying a build kit to build this frame you are flushing your hard earned cash, buy something complete and spend that money on wheels. Pivot bearings don't last all that long, plan to replace them _at least_ once a season if you put quite a few miles on. If you don't keep your drivetrain in really good shape and clean this frame seems to have a tendancy to chain-suck, and when it does chain-suck.. due to the chainstay yoke design the chain will wedge and chain-stuck. This sucks. There also is no good chain protector for this frame, so you will end up with a chainstay yoke that looks all beat up from chain slap. The final issue with this frame is that it is a bit of a pig compared to its competitors, in size Large it is over 6lb w/ shock, there are alloy frames on the market in this travel range that weigh a full pound less, most carbon frames shave a full two pounds off of this -- and there are carbon bikes in the same price range if you get a complete.
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Great bike! Its good at climbing and speed! You will love it! It is a true and best 29er!
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The law enforcement community's approach to information sharing has gone viral.
Dozens of federal agencies, state governments and international governments are making the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) the standard for secure information sharing.
The story around the Federal Identity Credentialing and Access Management (FICAM) framework is similar to that of NIEM. Federal and state government agencies recognize the value of adopting the common approach to identity management.
These two examples are major reasons why a new white paper from ACT-IAC's Collaboration and Transformation Special Interest Group's Information Sharing Committee is calling for a similar approach to the acquisition of IT systems.
Kshemendra Paul, program manager, Information Sharing Environment
"We are trying to add a little more coherence there. A core challenge we face is the crushing financial situation we find ourselves in in the public sector. It's bad at the federal level. It's much worse at the state and local level," said Kshemendra Paul, the program manager of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), in an interview with Federal News Radio. "Part of the solution going forward is to reduce fragmentation by increasingly having more effective interoperability and information sharing and solutions so we can work across boundary. These recommendations give us a pathway to do that."
More traction needed
ACT-IAC presented the white paper to Paul and Kathleen Turco, the associate administrator of the Office of Governmentwide Policy in the General Services Administration late last month. Turco and Paul are working together on a new set of tools to make information sharing easier.
The need for the white paper and industry recommendations came, in part, from that effort to develop the back-end attribute exchange, a secure capability to exchange attributes about people and about information that they want to access.
"We needed to define what we needed to do. We were talking about it and talking about it, and we really needed to get traction around the issue and what was it going to take," Turco said in an interview. "We needed to look at it from the strategic planning side, we need to look at it from the IT side and the acquisition side, and how can we put it into practice."
Turco and Paul's offices met Tuesday to discuss the next steps to take the white paper's recommendations and implement them.
Turco said several proposals will come from the meeting, whether they are led by GSA, the ISE or sent up to the Office of Management and Budget for consideration.
"The whole issue around how do we develop this cross-agency governance process is core to moving forward, and then the use of common definitions or taxonomy in terms of our federal approach," she said. "It will be much like they did for FICAM where they laid out the standards there. I think we need to have a standards roadmap for information sharing."
The recommendations in the white paper mirror many of the steps the government took to get the FICAM and NIEM in place.
- Streamline governance for interoperability standards - Develop a repeatable and rational approach that includes industry, federal, state and local governments and other stakeholders, and encourage the process to be monitored.
- Develop a standards roadmap - This will help encourage adoption, provide a taxonomy and clarify roles of government and industry.
- Reuse standards and rely on conformance testing - The guidelines should be part of pilots to minimize risk and promote broad implementation.
- Incorporate standards into all strategic management processes - Define the return of investment at the beginning from using the specifications and ensure the standards are included in acquisitions and understood by all stakeholders.
- Enhance training and outreach - Agency and vendor workforces must understand how to use the standards, which will result in more use and greater benefits.
"Some of the key messages that we are taking away in government from what ACT-IAC is putting forward are the critical role of standards and the opportunity to more effectively employ standards to support the variety of different management functions, including acquisition and requirements definition," Paul said. "It's also important to take an ecosystem perspective. It's not a technical or acquisition thing, it's also requirements, policy and training."
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Turco added the roadmap to create and implement the standards is key to the entire effort. She said agencies eventually will weave the standards through the entire capital planning process, which will then inform the acquisition process.
"One of the things we are challenged with at OGP is we are supposed to be working on governmentwide policy for information technology and heretofore we've not had this sort of guideline to do this in terms of how to do information sharing," Turco said.
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To help get the standards process started, Turco said GSA and ISE will look to the agency management councils — chief information officer, chief acquisition officer, chief financial officer, chief human capital officer and the performance improvement councils — to lead the effort.
"It will require a cross-section of the councils to begin to see and use the standards process to drive the strategic goal setting, and then the capital planning and then how we are acquiring," she said. "Having a set of standards gives CIOs the ability to say to their business partners we need to follow how exchange information across the agency or information we exchange between the federal level and state and local levels, and even with international partners. This paper is the first step."
Turco said in some ways these standard and collaboration efforts already started across the CIO and CAO communities, and the CFO and CIO communities.
Paul added while these CXO communities will play a big role within the federal government, the ISE and OGP must engage international standards bodies for their input and acceptance.
He said recently the NIEM community embraced the NIEM Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile, which was done through the Object Management Group, which drives model-driven architecture approaches.
"That has opened up a lot of doors in terms of industry adoption and in terms of greater use because it demonstrates the government's commitment to doing the work in industry settings and leveraging existing standards organizations," Paul said. "That's critical for this to work, that sincere partnership."
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Final Score: Penn State 38, Iowa 14
Iowa City, IA (Sports Network) - Bill Belton ran for 103 yards and three touchdowns as the Penn State Nittany Lions easily defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes, 38-14, in Big Ten Conference action at Kinnick Stadium.
Quarterback Matt McGloin converted 26-of-38 passes for 289 yards and two touchdowns as the Nittany Lions (5-2, 3-0 Big Ten) ran their win streak to five in a row after starting off 2012 with back-to-back defeats against Ohio University and Virginia.
As for the Hawkeyes (4-3, 2-1), they ran for a mere 20 net yards and watched quarterback James Vandenberg struggle as he connected on 17-of-36 passes for 189 yards and a touchdown, while also being picked off twice and sacked four times as the team had a two-game win streak snapped.
Penn State rattled off 38 straight points to begin the night, starting with a 31-yard TD pass from McGloin to Jesse James midway through the first quarter. McGloin added an eight-yard TD pass to Allen Robinson later in the period to make the score 14-0 after 15 minutes of action.
PSU kicker Sam Ficken got in on the act as he knocked through a 34-yard field goal at the 7:19 mark of the second quarter and from there Belton took over. The running back registered an 11-yard TD run in the second to give the Lions a 24-0 advantage at the break.
In the third and fourth periods Belton had scoring runs of three and five yards, respectively, the latter capping a lengthy 14-play, 97-yard drive that consumed more than six minutes of the clock.
On the ensuing kickoff Iowa finally responded as Jordan Cotton raced 92 yards for the team's first points of the contest, cutting the deficit to 38-7 with 14:14 left in the contest.
The visitors had some issues during their possessions in the fourth as they missed a field goal, fumbled the ball away and also had to punt, the turnover giving the Hawkeyes another shot at putting points on the board as Vandenberg hit Keenan Davis with an 18-yard TD to finish the night's scoring.
Penn State controlled the ball for more than 38 minutes as it generated a hefty 504 yards of total offense, while limiting the hosts to just 209 yards.
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Earlier this year, the ASPCA assisted in a three-state dog fighting bust alongside the FBI, Missouri Highway Patrol and several other agencies.
When we found these dogs, many were doomed to live their whole lives tethered by heavy chains—and on the day of the raid, many were left outside to suffer through a blizzard.
Today, after months under the care of our behaviorists, veterinarians and tireless responders, dogs rescued from this raid are thriving. In fact, some have already headed to rescue for adoption! Still others remain in our care.
We wanted to show you some of these dogs' happy faces and thank you for helping us make their rescue possible. We couldn't have taken on this massive operation without your help!
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I have been associated with ASPCA for over 50 years. I came from NYC so I in their facility on numberous occasions. They even treated my dogs on an emergency basis from time to time. I truly believe that I would not be the animal volunteeer that I am today if I was exposed to the caring and wonderful treatment that they gave to ALL ANIMALS. Soemtimes I feel that the worst thing that has happened is our means of communication false statements people can make without any backup and how is spreads like wild fire.
Do people believe everything they read just because it's in print? On Fecesbook, of all places?! Perhaps there's a more reliable source for your information. You can't believe everything on the internet (no, really)!
What kind of moron are you? The ASPCA is the greatest organization going. If you paid as much attention to the reports on what they really do you would never ask such a ridiculous question!!!! Donate monthly & start getting their newsletters.
The good work ASPCA does is well documented...by everyone who deals with them from rescuers and vets to official agencies that work with them. People post all kinds of trash on Facebook just to cause mayhem. And then kind people like you believe it and a really worthwhile group misses out on the donations they so greatly need to operate. The dogfighting people and the puppymill people and the less than ethical farmers...all of them have a reason to malign this group. I suspect someone like that started the rumor you read on Facebook that was probably posted by someone who saw it and just repeated what they saw. ASPCA has been around for a long time. Its easy to check out. What about the person who posted on Facebook? Ask them for their source. And please don't stop giving to ASPCA...I never will. The animals need you.
Beware of No Kill Nation. They LIE out of one side of their mouths and ask for donations out of the other side. ALWAYS ask for a list of rescues that they have run (0 as far as I can see) and how many bad laws have they been instrumental in repealing (0 as far as I can see) and how many good laws for animal welfare have they fought for and gotten enacted (0 as far as I can see). If you ask how much money they have taken in, I bet you won't get a satisfactory answer to that question either!
That's so ridiculous I can't understand why you would believe it.
Also euthanasia is not performed with gas, couldn't you do the most minute research for your own independent thought process?
I have a rescue and I work with them in my area. I have not witnessed anything like this or anything wrong with the organization here
I have a rescue and I work with them in my area. I have not witnessed anything like this or anything wrong with the organization here


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By Matthew Kadey
Damn Thorns
Besides an obnoxious sun, ornery dogs and the demanding terrain with more ups and downs than a '80s guitar solo, our biggest nemesis is the thorns. There are many, and, in turn, many flats.
After his fourth limp tire in just as many hours, Paolo Sangregorio, a 41-year-old angular graphic artist from Sweden, seems keen on tossing his Cannondale over the Meimoa dam on the outskirts of the Serra da Malcata Natural Reserve, where, until recently, roamed the exceptionally endangered Iberian Linx.
In the fifty-five miles of dusty track between Sortelha, another fine example of an ancient, castle-adorned hilltop village towering above golden plains and Almeida, I've, sigh, caught up to Paola in the flat department and the blackberry bushes that sport the thorns that are tormenting these tires have torn open my arms as I rip by them on my cushy dual suspension Gary Fisher in this generally sere countryside.
There's little pouting and querulous remarks, though, as the trail is becoming increasingly tantamount to mountain biking utopia. I'm wending through a big, untamed mural dotted with high peaks, lazy rivers, and rock rose and papillon lavender under an omnipresent high, dark blue sky.
No vehicles are to be witnessed among the sun-bleached veldt and precarious rocky downhills are taken gung-ho, depositing me at the bottom wordlessly.
Equally cheerful is Gary, who today, riding like Bugs Bunny on a latte binge, has already crested the summit and been sipping algid (cold) Super Brock's for hours.
Up and Down
Advancing to the South en masse, the Grande Rota is now taking us through a central plateau and the rough grounds of Serra da Estrela Natural Park where Iberian wall lizards, tawny owls and the occasional wolf mingle in the open air of the countries largest mountain range.
Once again, Gary is already there, ale in hand. The group is one lighter due to a busted-up ankle, the outcome of what is very much an arduous course.
A go-to spot for some of the big, blue marble's best paragliders, Linhares rests on a slope keeping a watch over the Rio Mondego valley below.
In fact, I've come to anticipate riding through these aged villages without much fanfare. It seems the young and ambitious have vacated the countryside seeking more prosperous fortunes in the country's capital.
Haggard Yet Content
Fifty miles from Linhares is our terminus for today: Piódão. And, being nestled in the middle of three mountain ranges, there will be more climbing. Indeed, the first 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of this atypical leaden-skied morning are just that.
Battle worn and ragged, I roll into the Vale do Rossim dam for lunch and masticate three ubiquitous ham and cheese sandwiches while languidly reclined in a hard plastic chair.
We're encouraged to collect oak tree seeds that will be planted by a local NGO to help offset those that perished during recent forest fires in the mountainous Serre da Estrela region. But, weary, few can muster much more than a feeble attempt to be green.
"It's pretty much all downhill from here," Pedro C., an affable Lisbon native, briefs me as I slowly relieve a towering oak of some of its brown stringy buds. He wasn't kidding.
Seconds Please
Leaving Piódão, a particularly romantic village with brown slate homes meshed into the mountain like a Christmas tree and ablush by the rising sun, I conclude that with 55 miles and 10,000 feet of climbing among ridges and valleys, this will be one of the most epic rides of my thirty-three year existence.
A fitful sleep occurred, worrying about failed ascents, battered body parts and an unheroic van ride back to the start line. But these concerns do not come to fruition. Somehow, as if in some sort of medieval fairy tale, I arrive back at Castelo Novo unscathed and pumped to do more.
That night while sipping port and sharing harrowing experiences with my new friends, Gary stands and brightly toasts his fellow adventurers.
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