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House moves to restore death benefits
Payments to family of fallen troops frozen amid government shutdown
"For the last 20 years, Fisher House has been there to support our military families in their time of greatest need. We are now stepping up to honor the sacrifices that have been made, and to repay a debt that is truly unpayable," Fisher said.
"The department has no higher priority than taking care of our service members and their families. Our men and women in uniform must know that the department will always fulfill its responsibilities to them and to their families," Hagel said.
But Congress has responsibilities as well, Hagel added, "and it has abdicated them. ... I once again call on Congress to fulfill its basic responsibilities and restore funding for the federal government."
GOP House leaders said the Pentagon always had the authority to pay the death benefits, because the Pay Our Military Act "ensured that all military payments would be dispersed in the event of a lapse of appropriations. Death gratuities for families of deceased military service members were intended to be included in the bill. This legislation simply provides explicit authority to the Department of Defense to disburse these payments."
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, told the appropriations committee Wednesday that during his three combat tours he served alongside the men and women affected now by the benefit freeze, getting to know them and their families.
"I sat down with them, I've had dinner with them, and I want to say from the bottom of my heart, I apologize for the shameful act of the administration's lawyers in determining that what we passed last month does not count for paying this debt benefit.
"When the lawyers in the administration made the decision to not count the death benefit, they broke a sacred trust with our U.S. military men and women and those on the front lines. And it is up to us in this Congress to restore that trust for the American people and for our military that we have sent to war and that we have a responsibility for."
House Joint Resolution 91, the Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act, passed by a vote of 425-0. Resuming those payments as quickly as possible "is certainly the least we can do for those who make the ultimate sacrifice for our country," House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers said in remarks before the vote.
"The reality is we are a nation at war. Wars don't stop just because our government isn't functioning properly, nor do our obligations to our soldiers get put on pause while we work to clean things up."
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-NJ, introduced the bill under a suspension of rules on the eighth day of the government shutdown.
Moreno had deployed in June from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., where she previously worked as a clinical staff nurse on a medical surgical unit at Madigan Army Medical Center.
"We are all deeply saddened by the tragic loss of this great American soldier. As our medical family mourns the death of 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno, our thoughts and prayers are with her family," said Col. Ramona Fiorey, commander of the medical center.


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->''I'm the king of the world! Woo-hoo-hoooo!''
-->--'''[=DiCaprio=] as Jack Dawson''' in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''
Leonardo Wilhelm [=DiCaprio=] (born 1974) is an American actor and film producer whose career rose with his role in the television sit-com ''Series/GrowingPains''. His critically acclaimed breakthrough film performance came in ''This Boy's Life'', and was quickly followed by ''Film/WhatsEatingGilbertGrape''. His performance as the mentally handicapped brother of JohnnyDepp, in the title role, brought him nominations for the Golden Globe and UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Supporting Actor. He gained fame for his role as Jack Dawson in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', and has starred in many other successful films including ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', ''BloodDiamond'' (which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), and ''Film/{{Inception}}''. [[MemeticMutation And he hasn't won an Oscar for any of them.]]
[=DiCaprio=] received another Academy Award nomination for his role as Howard Hughes in ''TheAviator'', directed by Creator/MartinScorsese. He has also worked with Scorsese in films such as ''GangsOfNewYork'', ''TheDeparted'', ''Film/ShutterIsland'' and ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''. This partnership was compared to the earlier working relationship between Scorsese and RobertDeNiro.
Tends to appear in a lot of [[PeriodPiece Period Pieces]] (''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'', ''Total Eclipse'', ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'', ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', ''Film/TheAviator'', ''Film/RevolutionaryRoad'', ''Film/ShutterIsland'', ''Film/JEdgar'', ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', ''Film/TheGreatGatsby'' and the upcoming ''The Revenant'') and to [[ChronicallyKilledActor die in many of his movies]]: [[spoiler:''The Quick and the Dead'', ''Total Eclipse'']], ''Romeo + Juliet'', ''Titanic'', [[spoiler:''Blood Diamond'', ''The Departed'', ''Shutter Island'' (sort of), ''J. Edgar'', ''Django Unchained'', and ''The Great Gatsby'']].
He's an environmentalist, and produced and narrated a documentary, ''The 11th Hour'' about environmental issues.
If you are ever in need of explaining to a non-Japanophile what a {{Bishonen}} is, try suggesting Leonardo [=DiCaprio=].
!!'''Movies he starred in:'''
* ''Series/GrowingPains'' (1992): as [[CousinOliver Luke Brower]]
* ''This Boy's Life'' (1993): as Tobias Wolff, co-starring RobertDeNiro as his [[AbusiveParents abusive stepdad]]
* ''Film/WhatsEatingGilbertGrape'' (1993):Arnie Grape
* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' (1994): Kid
* ''The Basketball Diaries'' (1995): biopic of Jim Carroll's [[DarkAndTroubledPast teenage years]]
* ''Total Eclipse'' (1995): biopic of 19th-century poet [[TroubledButCute Arthur Rimbaud]]
* ''Don's Plum'' (1995 but released in 2002): as [[JerkAss Derek]]
* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' (1996): as [[RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]] in the 1996 adaptation
* ''Marvin's Room'' (1996): as Hank opposite Creator/MerylStreep
* ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' (1997): as [[StarMakingRole Jack Dawson]]
* ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' (1998): as twins [[CainAndAbel King Louis XIV]] and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Phillipe]]
* ''Celebrity'' (1998): cameo appearance as Brandon Darrow
* ''Film/TheBeach'' (2000): as Richard
* ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' (2002): [[YouKilledmyFather Amsterdam Vallon]]
* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' (2002}: Biopic of [[ConMan Frank Abagnale Jr]]
* ''Film/TheAviator'' (2004): Biopic of multi-millionaire [[SuperOCD Howard Hughes]]
* ''Film/TheDeparted'' (2006): plays [[TheWoobie Billy Costigan]] alongside Creator/MattDamon and MarkWahlberg
* ''Film/BloodDiamond'' (2006): as Danny Archer
* ''Film/BodyOfLies'' (2008): as Roger Ferris
* ''Film/RevolutionaryRoad'' (2008): as Frank Wheeler, opposite Creator/KateWinslet in a [[StepfordSuburbia suburbia]] setting
* ''Film/ShutterIsland'' (2010): as Teddy Daniels
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' (2010): as [[TheCaper Dom Cobb]]
* ''Film/JEdgar'' (2011): as J. Edgar Hoover
* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' (2012): Calvin Candie
* ''Film/TheGreatGatsby'' (2013): as Jay Gatsby
* ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'' (2013): Jordan Belfort
* ''Film/TheRevenant'' (2015): as Hugh Glass
!!Tropes associated with:
* AgeLift /PlayingGertrude: In Film/CatchMeIfYouCan he played 16-year-old Frank Abagnale. Two years later he was playing 40-year old Howard Hughes. A lot of people accuse the casting of being ambitious, to say the least.
* AntiHero: Tends to play this type of character in most of his movies
** ''Basketball Diaries'': A 14-year-old Catholic school student who is also a heroin-junkie and prostitute.
** ''Total Eclipse'': Plays poet Arthur Rimbaud, who also had an affair with an older man.
** ''Marvin's Room'': Sets his house on fire in the first 10 minutes of the show. Has bipolar disorder and stays in a psychiatric treatment center.
** ''Don's Plum'' and ''Celebrity'': Plays spoiled, bored, rich [[JerkAss jerkasses]].
** ''TheAviator'', ''Film/ShutterIsland'', ''Film/{{Inception}}'', ''Film/TheGreatGatsby'': Plays characters with [[spoiler: delusional behaviors and a warped sense of reality.]]
** ''TheDeparted'': Plays a character who has to do some really shady things while undercover, such as participating in murder.
** ''BloodDiamond'': Plays a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] South African merc who kills and cheats his way across Africa for his personal gain.
* [[invoked]][[AwardSnub Award Snubbed]]: He never won an Oscar. Mocking him for it is something of a running joke on the Internet.
-->'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/02/28/leonardo-dicaprio-is-really-coming-for-that-oscar/ Michael K.]]:''' Everyone jokes about how [=Leonardo DiCaprio=] is the Susan Lucci of the Oscars, and how he probably had his basement made up to look like the stage of the Dolby Theater so that when hes feeling down he can pretend to accept an Academy Award while the 18-year-old models hes going to fuck later sit naked in the audience. Leo is so hard up for Oscar that every now and again he makes [[TheCasanova one of his tricks-of-the-moment]] paint herself up like a gold Oscar statue before they get it on.
** The man himself commented on this, in what may be the only positive example of ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars:
-->"I am really moved by all the people on the internet demanding that I should win an Oscar, but to be honest, I only did this job [[DoingItForTheArt because I love it]], not to win prizes."
* BigBad: In ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' and ''Film/DjangoUnchained''.
* ChronicallyKilledActor: When taken to its logical extreme, if he appears in a Baz Luhrmann film his character is doomed (since he plays characters that die in the source material of the two Luhrmann films he's appeared in).
* FakeNationality: French in ''Total Eclipse'' and ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' (which were cases of [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent not even bothering with the accent]]); and Rhodesian in ''BloodDiamond''.
* HeteroSexualLifePartners: With Creator/TobeyMaguire.
* HurtingHero: Nowadays he seems to end up playing this type of character a lot.
* KnightOfCerebus: A rare case of his characters in some films. Several of his characters add serious conflicts and drama to the plot (and that includes his nicest characters too), making the film becomes increasingly DarkerAndEdgier.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Calvin Candie from ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' is regarded as the most evil character that LeonardoDiCaprio ever played. In fact, it got to the point that even Dicaprio felt uncomfortable with a role this time, and shows genuine disgust in the character.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Gets an {{Expy}} in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' game series in the form of Steve Burnside; although the character's inclusion was most certainly pushed along by the advent of ''Titanic'' being popular, his personality and actions are modeled on [=DiCaprio=]'s earlier roles.
** Gilbert (Gil) from ''Manga/HanaKimi'' is modeled after Leonardo [=DiCaprio=].
** Wrestler Brian Kendrick went by the name Leonardo Spanky earlier in his career in Japan, due to his resemblance.
* OldShame:
** Any mention of ''Critters 3'' would most likely result in a dropkick.
** He and Tobey Maguire sued to keep ''Don's Plum'' from being commercially shown in North America
* OlderThanTheyLook: He looked 14 in ''Film/WhatsEatingGilbertGrape'' (real age 18), 16 in ''Total Eclipse'' and ''Basketball Diaries'' (real age 20), 16 in ''Romeo + Juliet'' (real age 21), 16 in ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' (real age 28). Based on [[http://justjared.buzznet.com/photo-gallery/2518030/leonardo-dicaprio-j-edgar-filming-01/ recent set pictures from ''J. Edgar'']], the 36-year-old Leo looks right at home playing a 21-year-old Hoover. As one person put it, he looks about a decade younger clean-shaven.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Funnily enough, his role as carefree, charming Jack Dawson in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''. He usually plays tortured souls with either a heavy past or troubled personality. Ironically, Jack Dawson seems the closest character Leo has ever played that resembles his real personality off-screen or Arnie from ''Film/WhatsEatingGilbertGrape''.
** In ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', he plays a sadistic slaveowner, and one of the main villains.
** In ''TheWolfOfWallStreet'', he plays a hedonistic VillainProtagonist. Furthermore, it's his first comedy role (aside from his cameo in ''Celebrity'').
* PrettyBoy: Played these characters early in his career.
* PromotedFanboy: Often cites RobertDeNiro as one of his favorite actors, and co-starred with him in ''This Boy's Life'' (one of his first big breaks in film) and ''Marvin's Room''.
* SexySoakedShirt: Remarkably common to whatever character he is playing. He got drenched in a tub in ''Film/WhatsEatingGilbertGrape'', falls into a pool in ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'', swims in the ocean in ''Film/TheBeach'' and ''Titanic'', along other examples.
* SmokingIsCool: He smokes in almost all of his movies, starting from the ''Basketball Diaries'' (age 20). In particular, watch out for the scene in ''Romeo + Juliet'' in which he's sitting by the beach, calmly puffing away while he writes in his diary and droning RadioHead music plays in the background.
* StarMakingRole: Jack Dawson in ''Titanic''
* TypeCasting: DoubleSubverted. After his StarMakingRole in ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', media pundits almost unanimously predicted that Leo would be another flash-in-the pan celebrity, typecast as a PrettyBoy [[TeenIdol teenage heart-throb]] before forever vanishing from the limelight after hitting 35. Unusually, he was GenreSavvy enough to move away from pretty boy roles into [[DarkerAndEdgier something grittier]] and started a very fruitful creative partnership with Creator/MartinScorsese. Ironically, this led [=DiCaprio=] to being typecast in crime and/or business dramas, Scorsese's signature genre, where he usually plays intense, morally ambiguous types. Leo's lead role in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film ''{{Inception}}'' was seen as an attempt at broadening his acting range... right until it turned out he was playing an intense, morally ambiguous mind thief.
* WhatMightHaveBeen:
** Creator/QuentinTarantino wrote the part of Hans Landa in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' with Leonadro [=DiCaprio=] in mind, but later decided it was best given to a natural-born German with [[{{Omniglot}} the necessary language skills]].
** He was originally supposed to voice Jack Frost in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', which [[spoiler:would have been one hell of an ActorAllusion to Jack Dawson, as both Jacks drowned/froze to death in their movies.]]
** [=DiCaprio=] was set to play serial killer Patrick Bateman in AmericanPsycho at the height of his Titanic teen idol fame, but backed out from the urging of his publicist, and to star in ''Literature/TheBeach''.
[[Film/{{Inception}} ''... We have to go deeper.'']]

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"If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change the way you think about it."
I was induced with my first for medical reasons at 38 weeks. I was given cervadil the night before to ripen my cervix. The next day I was started on pitocin. It was a very long labor for me. I started pitocin on saturday morning and didn't have her until sunday morning at 5:15 am. At one point my labor stalled. I was on the highest level of pitocin a person could get. I was able to move around and I remember going from painful contractions to oh my god. It hit me like a ton of bricks and didn't stop until she was out. I opted for an epi but unfortunately it didn't do much. I hadn't slept since thursday night so I was given ambien on friday night. It did nothing. On sunday morning they knocked me out at 3am. I slept for 2 hours and woke ready to push. Within a half an hour she was out and all my pain had stopped. I had no issues pushing out the after birth. Baby and I were absolutely fine. Every body is different though. Some ppl get induced and it's only a short labor.
Round two <3
Bella 11/20/05 & the little miss (very soon!)
I had 3 easy inductions (overdue with all 3) so I probably don't have any great advice for someone who hasn't experienced it. With this one I was 4cm when I got to my room so I had them break my water right away and he was born 5.5 hrs later. If you want an epi ask for it before the pain gets unbearable, it will be easier for you and them to get it in. This time I got mine when I was in transition and it took 30min for it to fully work.
Good luck!
I was induced at 36 weeks with my first. I was 2 cms dialated and 50% effaced before induction. They did picotin...
I had STRONG powerful contractions for 12 hours and only dialated 1 more CM before having to go in for an emergency C-section ( I had low amniotic fluid levels and after 12 hours they decided it was too risky to keep waiting because the cord was probably around her neck)
The further along you are the better an induction will take... There was another thread up just a minute ago about nipple stimulation to induce. I've been recommended this by lactation consultants and doctors. You use a breast pump for an hour 3 times a day to stimulate contractions and release oxitocin.
One thing you should know though is that sometimes they still induce you even if you are in active labor...In two of mine I was admitted with active labor and still given pitocin to speed them up..Both were born in 5-6 hours. with my first child I was induced because of high blood pressure and that was the worse. It was very long because I wasn't in active labor when I was induced. I was in labor with my first for like 14 hours.


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I Saw Three Ships in the Midnight Clear composed by Traditional. Arranged by Dean McNeill. Brass Quintet. For 2 trumpets, horn in F, trombone, tuba. Christmas. Advanced. Full score & set of parts. Published by Cherry Classics (CY.CC2122).
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Denise Aguirre, co-founder of The Point Park & Eats food truck park off Boerne Stage Road, started the San Antonio chapter after seeing the hilarious Eat. Meat. Repeat T-shirt on Facebook.
Click here for photos from Bobby G's Old School BBQ
This year, she registered the San Antonio chapter and combed through Yelp reviews for some of the top barbecue spots around the city -- with all the great grub in San Antonio, Aguirre swore it was not easy picking only a handful. She also made sure to include some food truck vendors.
It was important for me to support the food trucks because were so closely involved with the food trucks at The Park, she said. The winter time is not fun for food truck operators.
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I had lipo to my inner thighs and then trasferred to my butt. Its 6 mos. later and the skin in my inner thigh is loose and jiggly. He is moving to another state and is offering to give ne a discounted revision. I want to know if I should have an inner thigh lift or could vaser lipo tighten up the skin without leaving me with the scar. I would also like to know of the life expectancy of the inner thigh lift. Im 34 and their telling me that the scar will fall.
What is the Best Revision for my Inner Thighs and Loose Skin?
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Medial thigh lift for loose medial thigh skin
I do not think that VASER will give you the tightening that you desire. Medial thigh lifts performed by a surgeon familiar with this procedure should give you the tightening of thigh you want. I disagree that the scars for this procedure are not good. With a conservative skin resection, tension can be limited giving you an improved contour. Aggressive resections can result in too much pulling in this region leaving widened scars and potential distortion of the genital region. I recommend finding a board certified plastic surgeon with experience with this procedure to give you the best result.
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Best Revision for my Inner Thighs and Loose Skin?
Regarding: "What is the Best Revision for my Inner Thighs and Loose Skin?
I had lipo to my inner thighs and then trasferred to my butt. Its 6 mos. later and the skin in my inner thigh is loose and jiggly. He is moving to another state and is offering to give ne a discounted revision. I want to know if I should have an inner thigh lift or could vaser lipo tighten up the skin without leaving me with the scar. I would also like to know of the life expectancy of the inner thigh lift. Im 34 and their telling me that the scar will fall."
I have several problems with your question.
First, removing moderate to large amounts of fat from the inner thighs commonly result is deflated, hanging "loose and jiggly" skin. Were you not told about it? If you were and proceeded, why are you surprised? If you were not, why would you trust a surgeon who did not tell you about it with another operation?
Second, I have done a lot of VASER liposuction procedures and while there is a certain amount of skin shrinkage with it, it never matches the flattening seen with an excisional surgery such as Tummy Tuck, Buttock or Thigh Lift.
I would get at least another opinion before having another procedure.
Dr. Peter Aldea
What is the Best Revision for my Inner Thighs and Loose Skin?
Lift away forget the VASER! Lose skin = excision of the lose skin. From MIAMI DR. Darryl j. Blinski
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Inner Thigh Jiggly! What to do?
Vaser tightens the skin in many places but does not help the inner thigh much. I have done well over 1200 Vaser procedures and am very pleased but again it does not help much with inner thigh. The only solution is a thigh lift but a reasonable alternative is to wait a year or two and see how you look. The thigh lift is a significant surgery with a long (8 inches or more) incision and a longer recovery. The inner thigh is a tough place. good luck.
Loose skin on inner thigh following liposuction
You probably need an excisional type thigh lift. If done right, the scar should not migrate and the results should be permanent. Don't try any non invasive treatments as they will not work.
Revision of Enter Thigh Liposuction?
Thank you for the question.
Unfortunately, there is no modality of treatment to correct the problem you are experiencing except for medial thigh lifting surgery. As you have heard there are significant downsides to this operation which you must consider carefully. You may decide that it would be best not to undergo any type of treatment. Do not waste your time on modalities that will not work or make things worse.
Please make sure you are consulting with well experienced board-certified plastic surgeons.
I hope this helps.
Web reference: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_thighlift.htm
Medial thigh lift is a good option
like any procedure, a medial thigh lift done poorly can lead to problems, done well it can improve elastotic (loose, jiggly) skin. if the surgeon does not do the procedure with regularity then pay for a good operation minimizing complications.
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Inner thigh looseness after liposuction
The inner thigh does not respond as well as many other ares with liposuction as its structural support is not the same as the outer thigh. It is surprising that enough fat could be removed in this area for a sufficient buttock augmenation. I doubt that smart lipo, vaser, conventional liposuction could improve this and can make it worse. I also doubt that Thermage would help tighten this to any significant degree. A thigh lift may be the only recourse but the scar may descend with time. You should see a board-certified plastic surgeon, who has a great experience with thigh lifts, for a consultation with a physical examination to determine how you may respond to a thigh lift procedure.
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Inner Thigh Lift Better Than Non-Surgical Skin Tightening
Loose skin in the inner thighs is always better managed by a thigh lift than any form of non-surgical skin tightening. This would be particularly true after the excess skin has been created by a prior liposuction procedure.
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The politics of the Iraq Study Group:
Former Secretary James Baker and Lee Hamilton defended their report on "Good Morning America" this morning. Hamilton acknowledged that while there are risks in their recommendations, "the path we're on now is also high risk" and there is the "reasonable chance that this can succeed." Baker emphasized that "there really is no magic formula" and the report "does not in any way call for a graceful exit" making clear that it suggests our troops take on an enhanced role in Iraq "for a long, long time."
The duo also responded to criticism that drawing Iran and Syria into the discussion is not beneficial, Baker emphasized that "all we're suggesting is doing with them what we did in Afghanistan" repeating that they're "simply suggesting we do what we've already done."
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos also weighed in on GMA stating that "the President's going to have no choice but to make an address" to the public to outline his strategy now that the group has issued their 79 recommendations.
The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler and Thomas Ricks report that the ISG report will "help incoming Democratic congressional leaders frame the debate over Iraq as a disaster largely of the administration's making." LINK
Sheryl Gay Stolberg writes in a New York Times analysis, "For Mr. Bush to embrace the study group's blueprint would mean accepting its implicit criticism of his democracy agenda, reversing course in Iraq and throughout the Middle East and meeting Democrats more than halfway." LINK
Stolberg continues, "Assuming he is not ready to go that far, despite some recent signals of flexibility, he faces the more general question of whether he is ready to embrace the spirit of the report -- not to mention the drubbing his party took in the midterm elections a month ago -- and produce a new approach of his own that amounts to more than a repackaging of his current worldview."
"Administration officials said they expected President Bush to announce his own 'way forward' this month. They were careful not to take issue with the report's findings in public, and said Mr. Bush had yet to make firm decisions. But some suggested that the diplomatic strategy in the report better fit the Middle East of 15 years ago, when Mr. Baker served as secretary of state," writes David Sanger of the New York Times. LINK
The Washington Times' Charles Hurt reports that congressional Democrats -- including ones who voted in favor of going to war -- portrayed the ISG Report as vindicating their criticism of the war effort as they pledged to begin "'extensive hearings'" in January that will "continue for months." LINK
ABC News' Jake Tapper writes in his Blog "Political Punch" that, despite what you see in most media coverage, not everyone is happy with the Baker report. For example, Bill Bennett wrote in the National Review that, "In all my time in Washington I've never seen such smugness, arrogance, or such insufferable moral superiority. Self-congratulatory. Full of itself. Horrible." LINK
Robert Gates for SECDEF:
A bipartisan chorus of approval for Bob Gates as Secretary of Defense. The AP has the vote count including Sen. Santorum's parting shot. The new SECDEF is expected to be sworn in on December 18. LINK
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Recent Acquisitions of the Niels Bohr Library
Our large and unique collection of student notebooks grew further when Gibson Reaves donated his notebooks of astronomy courses taken 1943-1949 (0.5 lin. ft.). Another constantly growing collection is from the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest, for which we now received the 2002 entries (0.5 lin. ft.). Brenda Winnewisser donated additional papers of Hedwig Kohn from 1886-1936 that she received from Wilhelm Tappe (0.25 lin. ft.). Biographical materials on Klaus Fuchs from 1943-1989 were sent by Robert Williams from his work on a biography of Fuchs (2.5 lin. ft.).
The Niels Bohr Library is the repository for records of many of the Member Societies of the American Institute of Physics. We received from American Association of Physics Teachers, American Journal of Physics editor's reports from Bob Romer (via Bernie Khoury) for the years 1982-2001 (.25 lin. ft.). Frank Edmondson and Indiana University transferred the American Astronomical Society, Office of the Treasurer, Records of Frank K. Edmondson, 1898-1979 to the Niels Bohr Library (24 lin. ft.). Kenneth Hardy donated records for the American Physical Society, Southeastern Section (SESAPS) from 1935-1992, including scrapbooks, meeting programs and materials, and correspondence (3.0 lin. ft.). We also received SESAPS records from Wendell G. Holladay which includes photocopies of records from the E.A. Jones collection at Vanderbilt University, and photocopies of records belonging to F.G. Slack, 1934-1967 (.75 lin. ft.). And of course the Niels Bohr Library is the repository for the American Institute of Physics itself. AIP's Office of the Secretary deposited subject files used for reference from the years 1950-1990 (5.0 lin. ft.). This office also turned over the Minutes of the AIP Executive Committee and Governing Board from 1931-2000 which were converted from electronic files directly to microfilm (3 reels).
For our Miscellaneous Physics collection, Philip Anderson donated a manuscript copy of the chapter "Superfluidity and superconductivity: The past half-century" which he wrote for the Enciclopedia Italiana's series "History of Science" (2001; 41 pp.). From Franco Nori we received some reprints of articles by Paul Dirac (1928-1952; 8 pamphlets) and Erwin Schrödinger (1930-1954; 16 pamphlets). From Herbert F. Mataré we received photocopies of letters written to him by other physicists (1944-1969; 11 pp.). Frederick Seitz sent a copy of an essay he wrote on the Bohr-Heisenberg Meeting in 1941 (2002; 9 pp.). An unpublished copy of "Dating recent basalt by the potassium-argon method" by Thorbjörn Sigurgeirsson was donated by G. Brent Dalrymple (1962-1970; 26 pp.).
Manuscript Biographies and Institutional Histories
H. William Koch sent us a copy of autobiographical notes entitled "Ed Condon and the NBS Radiation Physics Laboratory" (2002; 9 pp.). Judy Franz of APS donated a biography of Philip Dalton written by Philip M. Smith (2002; 57 pp.). We received an autobiography by Byron T. Wright titled "Clips of my life" (n.d.; 139 pp.). David Diffenderfer donated his Recollections of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory (2002; 7 pp.). E. Leonard Jossem donated a copy of an early American Physical Society brochure on fund-raising called "Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay" (ca. 1927; 6 pp.). Additional documentation on the history of the AAPT Appalachian Section was contributed by Folden B. Stumpf.
Finding Aids
McMaster University Library shared with us a copy of their finding aid to the B. N. Brockhouse papers. The published finding aid to the Archives of the International Astronomical Union, Inventory for the years 1919-1970 by A. Blaauw, has been added to our book collection. A copy of the list of the contents for the papers of Louis Néel (in French) from the Académie des Sciences in Paris is now available at the Niels Bohr Library. You can examine the guide to the papers of Sir Marcus Laurence Oliphant at the University of Adelaide Library on the Web at http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/ual/special/oliphant.html.
Case Western Reserve, in notifying us of the acquisition of the papers of William Pendry Bidelman, also sent us a box list of the contents. Fermilab contributed copies of the inventories to the Records of FNAL Office of the Director, Records of Peter Limon, and the SSCL Special Collection. The Preliminary Guide to the Boris Garfinkel Papers at Yale University is available online at http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/mssa.1714.con.html.
In the last year our archival intern processed and wrote finding aids to the American Astronomical Society, Office of the Treasurer, Records of Frank K. Edmondson collection and the American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics, Project on the History of Recent Physics collection.
Through the kind aid of Nancy Greenspan and Gustav Born we obtained copies of over 80 photographs from Max Born's Papers in Edinburgh, including photos of Max Born himself, Otto Hahn, James Franck, Otto Oldenberg, and Chandrasekhar Raman to name a few. (See article, p. 3) Our collection of Nobel Laureates in Physics is still complete, thanks to donations this year from Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman. We received a substantial collection of photographs from Kurt Gottfried, with photographs of such notable physicists as Henry Kendall, Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman. Martinus Veltman donated ten photographs of Swiss physicist Baron Stückelberg, who had not been represented in our collection. Donald Clayton has also added another good set of images to his already substantial donation of photographs. For donations of one or two photographs we are grateful to Dieter Brill, Virginia Trimble, Colin Hines, Charles Misner, Robert Resnick, Per Dahl, Katherine Kron, and Robert Gould.
We have continued adding images to the Visual Archives from the Niels Bohr Library's archival collections, mainly the W. F. Meggers Collection, which includes photographs of many of the instruments that Meggers worked with at the National Bureau of Standards during his time there. Physics Today continues to add to the Visual Archives with the donation of photographs submitted for their obituaries.
Please contact our photo librarian at (301) 209-3184 or firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in donating photographs. We especially appreciate photographs showing scientists working with their equipment and other informal photographs.
Other Audio-Visual Materials
We received three videocassettes of The Copenhagen Interpretation: Science and History on Stage, which was taped at the Smithsonian Institution in 2002 upon the opening of the play "Copenhagen" in Washington DC, from Brian Schwartz. The American Vacuum Society sent us a videocassette of the NBS/NIST Centennial Session from their October 2001 Symposium. E. Leonard Jossem donated a videocassette copy of the Arnold B. Arons Memorial session from the AAPT Summer 2001 meeting. A set of four videocassettes of some of the Enrico Fermi Centennial Celebration held at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago in September 2001 was donated by James E. Pilcher.
Steven M. Kahn kindly contributed eight audio cassettes with talks from the Enrico Fermi and the Beginnings of Nuclear Fission Centennial Conference held in November, 2001. We received an audiocassette copy of Richard Garwin's talk on National Public Radio in April 2001, "Reconsidering the paternity of the H-bomb," from Patrick McCray. An interview of Jack S. Kilby done in 2001 by James M. Lafferty was donated by the interviewer. An anonymous donor turned over an unusual recording (on 7-inch green flexible 33.3 RPM vinyl disks!) of J. Robert Oppenheimer giving a speech at the 1945 meeting of the Association of Los Alamos Scientists.
Patrick McCray and the Bancroft Library at UCLA gave us three CD-ROMs with audio clips of Ernest O. Lawrence that were used for the History Center's Web exhibit on Lawrence. From David Stern we received copies of three of his Web exhibits on CD-ROM: "From Stargazers to Starships" (http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sintro.htm); "The Great Magnet, the Earth" (http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/earthmag/dmgmap.htm) and "Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" (http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html). We received a copy of a talk titled "Religion in an age of science" given by Harlow Shapley at Vanderbilt University in 1958 on CD-ROM, recorded by Robert H. Hardie and Michael S. Snowden.
Virginia Trimble, the wife of late Joseph Weber, added to her previous donation of several hundred books from his collection few hundred more that were at another location. Cataloging is underway; so far, we have added 273 books from this generous gift to our collection.
This year we are especially grateful to have received copies of books from their authors. Such donations included: Eri Yagi's A Historical Approach to Entropy and the supplement, with her collected papers, Dong-won Kim's Leadership and Creativity: a History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1919, and Hiro Tawara's Pioneers of Physics in the Early Days of Japan. The Library also received donations from the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Good Seeing: A Century of Science at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902-2002). For other book donations, we would like to express our gratitude to Shaun J. Hardy, John Vesel, Guy Emery, Edward V. Lee, Elroy O. LaCasce, Herbert F. Matare, and Peter Reppert. Our library would not have its large collection of important books without generous donations from such people.
In addition, as always, we have purchased a number of new and used books with the aid of funds donated by our Friends, in particular a generous endowment from the Brodsky Foundation.
Oral History Interviews
The historians who conduct interviews with the help of grants-in-aid from the Friends of the Center have been active. We are especially grateful to Christopher Smeenk, who has been conducting a project on the history of modern cosmology. This past year he deposited interviews with John Barrow, Jeremiah Ostriker, Jim Peebles, Martin Rees, Bill Saslaw, Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok. This project is done in collaboration with the Center's Postdoctoral Historian, Patrick McCray, who is also interviewing astronomers, both for general preservation purposes and in connection with a forthcoming book on the construction of large modern telescopes. He has also conducted some interviews with people who have made administrative contributions to physics societies and the community, an important group that historians have rarely addressed. This past year McCray interviewed Sandra Faber, Roderick Grant, James Houck, John Huchra, Leonard Jossem, Robert Kraft, Christopher McKee, Brian Schwartz, Malcolm Smith, Harvey Tananbaum, and Scott Tremaine.
A fine collection of over 40 interviews of astronomers and others associated with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, conducted in the years 1975-1999, was donated by David DeVorkin of the National Air & Space Museum. Those interviewed include Robert Frosch, Thomas Gold, Martin Harwit, Walter Roberts, Fred Singer, Lyman Spitzer, Richard Tousey, James Westphal, and many others. Other interviews received this year, both old and new, were: Katherine Harris by Fredericka Bell-Berti; Richard Lyons by Robert Fricke; Hurt Hoheremser by Gerhard Rammer; Leo Beranek by Joseph Leary; Rudolf Peierls and Eugene Wigner by Patricia Rife; William Baker and 2 sessions with David Beckler by Ron Doel; L. Goodfriend and Eric Ungar by Richard Peppin; Oleg Vaisberg by David Stern; John Clauser by Joan Bromberg; and Philip Abelson by Amy Crumpton.
Some of these interviews are fully transcribed and available for use, while others are still being processed (in some cases, formal permission for access has yet to be obtained). When an interview is ready to be used, it is recorded in our International Catalog of Sources (available on our homepage, /history), but scholars may inquire about special permission for access to interviews being processed.


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The Forge of God (1987)
by Greg Bear
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This is not science fiction that falls into the "Big Ideas" category, but rather into the "threat from space thriller" category. I didn't find the characters all-that-well developed, but in thrillers one rarely does. The important thing with a thriller is whether the author keeps one turning the pages, and Bear certainly did that for me. He's especially good with his end-of-the-world descriptions (told from several perspectives) as the novel climaxes.
In short, this book is a boring apocalypse.
I wish that I had read this book 15 years ago. Back then I had lower standards. It does a good job of presenting some compelling scientific ideas, like self-replicating space probes and the concept that the earth can be thought of as an organism which will might eventually be spread by humans acting as a sort of seed or spore. Another point in its favor is that this book is at least as scientifically plausible as any other Science-Fiction I've read in the last decade.
However, I didn't much enjoy the book's actual writing. The pace was slow, the action indirect, and the characters dull. The way the author speculated technology would develop (with desktop computers but no cell phones) is occasionally distracting, but quaint. Worst of all the women in this story were emotionally-hyperactive but otherwise flat inert accessories. Even women who were supposed to be brilliant scholars or influential career politicians did nothing except in relation to men. In the author's defense, the men were equally tired cliches.
Get this from your local library. Earth is attacked by unnamed adversary. Book explores the social consequences of the event. I am planning on reading the next book.
The Forge of God by Greg Bear is another classic, nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and Locus Awards when it was originally published in 1987. Bear is the author of one of my all-time favorite s/f novels, Darwin's Radio. The bottom line is that Bear is a giant in the field, and if you haven't read The Forge of God and its sequel, Anvil of Stars, then stop reading now and go do that.
The general premise of the novel is based on Fermi's Paradox, the idea that once a civilization makes enough electromagnetic "noise," it should attract other civilizations' attention. So where are they? Well, one answer is that the existence of "noisy" civilizations may be perceived as a threat by other advanced civilizations, so once they show up, they may be exterminated by more advanced alien races.
In this case, geological formations appear that weren't there before, and the aliens—"The Killers"—use them to destroy the planet. A remnant of Earth's inhabitants, as well as files of all the cultural and technological accomplishments, are saved by "The Benefactors." They resettle the survivors on Mars and help them create a livable planet. Bear has done a remarkably good job at creating an action-adventure novel that covers some important ground: We may not be alone in the galaxy, but the others out there may not be nice, either.
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In the middle of the Australian desert, a mountain has appeared where there was no mountain before. Silvery robotic aliens emerge, promising to usher humanity into a new era of technological development, of peace and prosperity. Meanwhile, in Death Valley in California, a similar mountain has appeared – but emerging from this one (and quickly kept under wraps by the US government) is a frail, dying, biological alien, which informs its captives in perfect English that "there is bad news."
The first third of The Forge of God is probably the most gripping sci-fi mystery I've read since Christopher Priest's Inverted World. The government's interrogation of the Death Valley alien, termed "the Guest," is wonderfully ominous and provides tantalising glimpses at what is to come; the alien's own limitations in the English language are both believable and serve to obscure precisely what it is that's about to happen to the Earth. Without giving too much away, the Guest is an effectively powerless agent which is merely here to warn us, setting the scene for some kind of alien invasion or destruction.
The title is more than just a metaphor; religion plays a significant part in The Forge of God. The fictional US President, Crockerman, is a devout Christian who is visibly shaken by what the Guest has to say, and interprets it theologically. He eventually comes to believe that he has encountered an angel proclaiming Judgement Day, and that all that is left for the people of Earth to do is pray. Other sci-fi writers might have made Crockerman a scornful caricature, but Bear presents him reasonably and realistically – he is neither stupid nor crazy, and faced with the information he has, and the genuine faith he has, I found his reaction to be eminently believable. (Bear himself is apparently a deist, which goes some way to explaining this.)
It's a shame, therefore, that Crockerman's action or lack thereof ultimately has little value, along with most of the rest of the characters in the book. The second two thirds fail to capture the cracking pace of the first, and towards the end the book begins to drag as the characters are faced with their apparent inevitable doom.
This is largely a problem of character. A hard sci-fi writer like Bear is fantastic at coming up with intriguing concepts and putting them inside an enjoyable pot-boiler – the kind of book you can happily burn through on an airplane or beach holiday – but not so great at the slower, more introspective stuff demanded of somebody who has chosen to write about humans living out their last days. He has, for example, that annoying belief common in many sci-fi and thriller writers that characterisation involves giving a physical description of somebody. Every time a character is introduced, no matter how irrelevant, you can bet Bear's going to tell us how old they are, what colour their hair is and what they're wearing. The entire first page is actually a rundown of the main character's physical description. And, typical of writers who do this, all his characters are cardboard cut-outs; mostly white, middle-aged scientists or political advisors with names like Arthur or Edward or Harry. I wish Bear had stuck to his strengths, ignored all the attempted end-of-days sadness, and kept us on the roller-coaster ride the first third of the book is.
One more minor complaint: given that the only scene in the book set outside the US takes place in Australia (and a fairly important scene at that), it wouldn't have killed Bear to do some light research. I realise Google didn't exist in the 1980s, but a cursory glance at an encyclopaedia could have told him that Melbourne is not the capital, the Australian Army does not use the "royal" prefix, there are in fact real TV networks and scientific organisations you can use rather than made-up ones, etc. It's a small thing, and one that non-Australian readers wouldn't notice, but it annoyed me a lot given that Bear is obviously not averse to a bit of factual reading.
Overall, the The Forge of God begins extremely well – reminiscent of Michael Crichton at his best – but unfortunately loses paces halfway through and ends in mediocrity. It's nevertheless worth reading for hard sci-fi fans for the first third alone, and despite being less interesting towards the end, it's still a quick and easy read. There is a sequel, Anvil of the Stars, which I may check out.
The disappearance of one of Jupiter's moons, the appearance of "little green men" in Australia and the American Southwest, and the sudden presence of unidentifiable objects on a collision course inside the Earth's core add up to the inescapable conclusion that the Earth has been invaded by an enemy it cannot fight. Powerfully and gracefully written, the latest novel by the author of Eon and Blood Music stands far above most examples of "doomsday" science fiction. Recommended.
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Another (and the final) extra-long Sundown in honor of another (and final) extra-short week in honor of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.
• The new Text/Context, which is published in a partnership between The Jewish Week and Nexbook Inc., has dropped. [Text/Context]
In a late article today, Mideast columnist Lee Smith profiles José María Aznar, the former Spanish prime minister who is now a major international actor in defending Israel. [Tablet Magazine]
• Noting that President Ahmadinejad is visiting Lebanon next month, influential columnist Aluf Benn has an idea: Kidnap him. [Haaretz]
• Arthur Penn, director of one of the most important films in American history, Bonnie and Clyde (to understand why, read this), died at 88. [NYT]
• They're young. They're in love. They're Polish neo-Nazi skinheads who turned out to be Jewish and are now practicing Orthodox Jews. [JPost]
• Borat is please to explain how great and impressive Israeli coalition government function for benefit of mankind. [Haaretz]
• David Miliband, one-time foreign secretary and older brother of new Labour leader Ed, is backing away from high-profile politics in deference to his victorious sibling. [AP/NYT]
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• Don Draper's love interest on this season of Mad Men is (like in season one) a Jew. [LAT]
• Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon see their best hope for returning to the land not in a peace deal but in continued violence that eventually leads to Israel caving. [Christian Science Monitor]
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• What is up with Jews not really drinking much alcohol? [Forward]
• There are more American Jews living in poverty than ever before. [Jewish Week]
• Why the rest of America is going kosher. [TNR's The Book]
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Can anyone tell me if the 4639 video drivers works with 648 chipsets? I've got one of those motherboads (Gigabyte GASG667), and XFree86 freezes at startup. The installer seems to work properly and does not report any error at all, and checking the XFree86.0.log it seems all OK (AGP is successfully initialized).
I suspect the chipset only because it is not listed in the chipsets supported section of the drivers documentation...
I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and totally noob... so please be patient!
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you don't have a NVidia chipset? but an onboard SiS VGA card?
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No: the motherboard is a sis648, and the video board is a Ti4200.
Anyway, I resoled the problem by myself just two minutes ago so you can skip it. :)
Just for the knowledge: the problem was in a secret menu of the bios (discovered only now), that showed the options apic or pic. Needles to say, I chosed pic and instantly rebooted... The only bad thing now is that I must change this option every time i'm going to switch os.
Well, can't ask everything from life...
Cheers, and thanks for the interest! I'm going to test UT2k3 now
P.S: Does anyone know a good software for setting refresh rates and core/mem timings? Though it might be seriously needed...:D
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many antivirus programs using signature-based malware detection. Here is creating signatures for ClamAV. I can understand how they create signatures considering that the whole file is a malware, but I couldn't understand how to find malware when it is in the body of the file - the hash would be another. Anybody knows?
My answer is not specific to ClamAV; instead I've answered in a general sense. Maybe this is helpful for you.
First of all a virus signature is not necessarily a hash value of a file. A signature is usually a string of bits found in a file, although a hash value could also be used as a signature.
Suppose, for example, that a virus contains the string of bits
Its interesting to note that if the bits in files were random, the chance of such a false match would be negligible at 1/2^64. reference
There many ways to generate signature and/or features for malware detections. Learn more here.
Also, there is other way to detect viruses:
2 Change detection - a file that unexpectedly changes may indicate an infection.
How can we detect changes? Hash functions are useful in this regard. Suppose we compute hashes of all files on a system and securely store these hash values. Then, at regular intervals, we can recompute the hashes and compare the new values with the previously stored values. If a file has changed in one or more bit positions — as it might in the case of a virus infection — we'll find that the newly computed hash does not match the previously computed hash value.
There are many disadvantages to change detection. Files on a system often change due to normal system functions rather than malicious behaviour. As a result, change detection is likely to yield many false positives, which places a heavy burden on users and administrators. If a virus is inserted into a file that changes often, it will likely slip through a change detection regimen. [reference: Mark-Stam's Book INFORMATION SECURITY]
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'Super' Successor Sought for Dearing
By Joe Saunders, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.
Jun. 14–MANATEE — A combination of financial savvy, educational understanding and organizational management are the key factors Manatee County school board members are looking for in a new superintendent.
And being "Superman or Superwoman" wouldn't hurt, either.
"It's a tough job and you've got to have special powers," said Walter Miller, a school board member for 10 years. "You're going to have a tough time because these are tough times."
The school district is looking for a replacement for Superintendent Roger Dearing, who on Thursday was offered the job of executive director of the Florida High School Athletics Association. Dearing, who has been on the FHSAA board of directors for two years, is expected to accept the job pending completion of contract talks.
He has said he plans to stay in the post until a successor is hired.
The school board has scheduled a July 10 public workshop with Wayne Blanton, executive director of the Florida School Boards Association to set up the process of hiring Dearing's replacement, something school board member Harry Kinnan hopes to have accomplished by fall, though probably after the school year begins Aug. 15.
'Challenging times'
Board members interviewed Friday stressed the need for the new superintendent to be committed to educational excellence first, but said the school district's shaky financial situation — forced to cut its budget by $21 million — makes understanding Florida's financial system key to the job.
"The focus has got to be on the classroom, but you have to find the money to do it," Miller said.
Kinnan agreed.
"There is a real need for a new superintendent to understand Florida law and Florida financing," he said. An inexperienced candidate, he said, would present "a learning curve I'm not sure we need at this time."
"These are challenging times," he said.
Pat Barber, president of the Manatee Education Association, the local teachers union that has had a sometimes-contentious relationship with Dearing's administration, said the new superintendent should be committed to a "collaborative" arrangement with the school district's employees.
"He or she should have a track record of working well with teachers associations and other unions in a school district," she said.
While she hasn't been in contact with her membership since the announcement that Dearing has been chosen for the FHSAA job, she said some members, at least, will welcome the coming change.
"There are some big morale problems in the system," she said. "A change in leadership could help that."
To school board member Bob Gause, the ability to run an operation as large large as the school district — including employee relations — will be key to selecting a new superintendent.
"We're going to want someone who has an understanding of how to run an organization," he said. "There's a lot of pieces that go into the district."
In his 11th year on the board, Kinnan is on his fourth search for a Manatee school superintendent. Citizen participation is vital, he said. It's participation he's already getting informally.
"I've already had people — and I'm sure the others have — say, 'You need someone with this, or someone with this,'" he said.
Dearing himself declined to comment Friday on the qualities his successor should have.
"Whoever they get is going to be different from me and have different strengths and weaknesses from me," he said. "I just hope they get the best person they can."
'Time … of the essence'
After the July 10 meeting, a committee of residents representative of Manatee County will be established to vet applicants for the post, weening them to three to five candidates. The finalists will then be interviewed by the board and elements in the community.
No firm timetable has been established, but the circumstances of Dearing's departure — uncertainty about whether he would be offered the FHSAA hindered beginning the official search for a successor — put some pressure on the district.
"Time is something of the essence," Kinnan said. "I don't think anyone wants to get into August and feel we're not deep in the process."
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Updated: 05/06/2005 - Two of the 13 law enforcement officers that received the Law Enforcement Medal of Honor Award are from Rockford.
Updated: 05/06/2005 - Chicago police say a 37-year-old Chicago man has been charged in connection with the defacing of an image on a Kennedy Expressway underpass in Chicago that some believed looked like the Virgin Mary.
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"These results are very exciting," said Dr. Louis Saravolatz, an infectious disease expert and chief of internal medicine at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit. "If you look at a particular age cohort, you see a phenomenal reduction of about 33,000 deaths prevented. That means 33,000 people from that group are still alive today, because they were vaccinated."
Any gains made can be lost, however, if parents stop immunizing their children, or if teens and adults don't get necessary booster immunizations.
"These vaccines work, and they improve the health of our children and our population, and we should be very grateful for that," said Dr. Marian Michaels, an infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. "But, we should not become complacent. These diseases aren't eradicated everywhere, and the world is so globally small now that these infections could come back if we don't maintain high immunization rates."
Saravolatz said that while this study is "great news," there is definitely still room for improvement in reducing disease in other parts of the world, and in the United States to strengthen adult vaccination rates.
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text: The Titans intended to keep tight end Jared Cook, before they realized it wasn't going to be as easy as just placing the franchise tag on him. Cook, as everyone knows by now, wanted to be tagged as a receiver, not a tight end. It meant more money for Cook. For the Titans, arbitration would've been on the horizon if they'd tagged him as a tight end.


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Diarra commits to UConn
UConn secured a verbal commitment from Mamadou Diarra, a 6-foot-8 forward, on Friday morning.
UConn starting guard Shabazz Napier has not practiced since suffering a left shoulder contusion in Monday's loss to Louisville Monday.
He's considered day to day.
Coach Kevin Ollie expects Napier, the team's leading scorer at 17.1 points per game, will play at Pittsburgh on Saturday.
"I think his shoulder came out of place a little bit, but he'll be ready to play," Ollie said after practice Thursday at Gampel Pavilion. "Hopefully, he'll practice tomorrow and have a good game on Saturday."
The Huskies were supposed to practice early Friday morning before leaving for Pittsburgh, but Ollie moved the workout to 5 p.m. in Pittsburgh to give Napier more time to heal.
"I hope so," said Napier when asked if he's playing Saturday. "I don't think I've missed one game since I came here. I don't really plan on missing any games. I've played through a whole bunch of injuries in my life, especially here.
"I'm blessed enough for it not to be my shooting arm. If I can fight through it to help my teammates out, I'm going to do what I can do."
Napier has had trouble sleeping because of the pain. He suffered the injury early in the first half during a drive to the basket. Louisville's Peyton Siva fouled Napier and Wayne Blackshear fell on him.
"I landed in an awkward position and the person just landed on my shoulder and my back...," Napier said. "After the game it was hurting a lot, but now it's cooled down and I've been moving much better than I did after the game."
His shoulder gradually stiffened up during the game. He says he should have sat out the second half.
"I felt different, but I was still out there so I can't give too much excuses," Napier said.
Napier scored 10 points in the first half but only two after intermission.
Without Napier at practice, junior Niels Giffey practiced with the first team on Thursday.
UConn secured a verbal commitment from Mamadou Diarra, a 6-foot-8 forward, on Friday morning.
For the second straight spring, UConn coach Kevin Ollie is the subject of NBA coaching rumors.
Ryan Boatright shot his way into the 3-point championship final on Thursday night at Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
UConn's frontcourt depth took a hit with the news that forward Rakim Lubin plans to transfer after just one season in Storrs.
UConn is limping into its NIT opener against Arizona State tomorrow night in Storrs.
Prior to its impressive American Athletic Conference Championship tournament run, UConn looked more like an NIT than NCAA post-season team.
UConn associate head coach Glen Miller didn't plan on getting much sleep on Saturday night.
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Going Topless: Official Shots of the 2014 Stingray Convertible
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Just days after Ken Lingenfelter of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering said the new C7 may not be capable of producing much more than 700-hp, Hennessey Performance Engineering has announced it plans to offer two very powerful engine performance upgrades for the 2014 Corvette Stingray later this year. Lingenfelter expressed reservations last week about the upper limits
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General Motors held a teleconference on Tuesday with Chevrolet dealers and their sales personnel to talk about the 2014 Corvette Stingray. Our sources tell us that dealership allocation will not be finalized until the second quarter of 2013, however, those dealers that are getting the Stingray are predetermined based on the volume of Corvette sales


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In the spirit of the season, I wanted to share with you what I received as a Christmas gift. (please ignore the book as it has nothing to do with "Star Trek". lol) :D
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To successfully monitor a system under load, both the approach to monitoring performance and the monitoring itself must be relevant to the context of the performance project. Therefore the first step in monitoring should be defining performance objectives. These refer to data that is collected through the
process of performance testing and that is expected to have value in determining or improving the quality of the product. However, these objectives are not necessarily quantitative nor directly related to other stated
performance criteria.
These objectives usually include all or some of the following characteristics:
➤ Contractual. Performance objectives are usually formally defined between the business customer and the testing entity as:
➤ mandatory. Criteria that are absolutely non-negotiable due to legal obligations, service level agreements (SLA) or fixed business needs.
➤ negotiable. Criteria that are desired for product release but may be modified under certain circumstances. These are typically, but not necessarily, end-user focused.
➤ Precision. The wording in which quantitative aspects of performance
objectives are written:
➤ exact. Criteria should be reached exactly as written in the objectives, for example, "50% CPU utilization."
➤ approximate. Criteria falls within certain range or has only one limit, for example, "Memory usage per process not to cross over 50MB", "Response time of at least 90% of transaction X should be equal or less than 3 sec."
➤ Boundaries. Performance objectives frequently define certain values in regard to the application under test:
➤ target. This is the desired value for a resource under a particular set of conditions, usually specified in terms of response times, throughput and resource utilization levels.
➤ threshold. This represents the maximum acceptable value for resources, usually specified in terms of response times, throughput (transactions per second), and resource utilization levels.
Performance objectives and their service attributes are derived from business requirements. Monitored metrics, captured by measuring, show the progress toward or away from performance objectives.
This post is part of the Performance Monitoring Best Practices series - you may see all of the posts under PerfMonitoring tag.