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Students from Landscape Architecture (Ernesto Altamirano, Roy Guillen, Anais Placido, Tony Vazquez Perez, Ivan Velazquez, Alex Wade, and Whitney Redfield) and Plant Sciences (John Bennett, Cody Chavez, Raul Martinez, Adam Mason, Tobias Patino, Luellen Swayzer, Austin Zendejas, and Lucio Zepeda) joined forces this year to compete in Fort Collins, Colorado at the 2014 PLANET Student Career Day. Cal Poly Pomona ranked among the top 10, competing against 62 other schools, receiving 8th place. Whitney Redfield, a 2nd year graduate student in the Department of Landscape Architecture, received 3rd place in 3D Exterior Landscape Design, and teamed up with Tobias Patino, a Plant Science major, to win 2nd place in the Personnel Management competition.
Several Landscape Architecture graduate students teamed up to participate in Project Blue, a competition coordinated through the Department of Biological Sciences and the Kellogg Foundation involving a 3 phase design competition for the Kellogg Creek. Each phase represents the real-life professional process of design develolment: proposal, development, and implementation. In Phase 1, Flor Mota and Whitney Redfield received 1st Place for their conceptual design. In Phase 2, the team grew to include Jason Bingham, Xin Ma, Flor Mota, Whitney Redfield, and Tyler Sprague. This team also received 1st Place for their detailed design. A competing entry by Jane Tsong, a Landscape Architecture graduate student in the final year in the program, received 1st place as well. Phase 3 of the competition wraps up in the Spring Quarter and is open to all students to participate regardless of involvement in previous phases.
A memorial celebration of the life of Jeff Olson, Professor Emeritus in Landscape Architecture, is planned for Saturday, March 8th, 2014. The celebration is scheduled for 3:00-7:00 pm in the home and garden of Bob and Peggy Perry, located at 564 W. 10th Street, Claremont, CA 91711.
A variety of food and refreshments will be served, including a home-made chili prepared using Jeff's personal recipe. All are invited; please RSVP to: email@example.com. Celebrations of this type remind us all of the importance of friends, colleagues and family. Come and enjoy; share and remember your time with Jeff. See a sample of Jeff's 46,000 page plant data base covering more than 33,000 plants! Assemble and fly one of Jeff's 'Flight Rings' or glider planes in tribute to his life. Please share the news.
Jeff Olson, landscape architect and Cal Poly Pomona Professor Emeritus, died of natural causes on January 9, 2014 at his home in Pomona, California. Jeff was born in Seattle on December 9, 1943. In late 1945, his family moved to California, living in Marin City (Marin County) until Jeff was 9 years old when they moved to Tam Valley. Jeff also lived briefly in Greenbrae. He graduated from Tamalpais High in 1961, and went on to study architecture at the University of Oregon (Eugene) before transferring to landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Following graduation in 1965, Jeff joined the Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Although Jeff had little interest in a long-term career in the military, the Marines certainly liked him – he was promoted to sergeant in about eighteen months. Following his military service, Jeff studied landscape architecture at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, receiving a Masters Degree in 1971. He then worked in Calgary, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada before joining the faculty of landscape architecture at Cal Poly, Pomona in 1973. During his 28-year tenure at Cal Poly, Jeff served as coordinator of the graduate program from 1977 to 1992, was a member of the Landlab Planning Committee, Regenerative Studies Design Team, and the University Research Council. Jeff retired in 2001 and was awarded Professor Emeritus status by the Academic Senate. Both colleagues and friends came to know Jeff for his quick wit, encyclopedic mind and great attention to precision and detail. These qualities can be seen in his decades long preparation of 'An Incomplete Plant Guide' that contains data records on more than 33,000 plants that are grown in California. This plant guide is over 46,000 pages in length; efforts are being pursued to provide this database on the web later this year. Jeff also loved to travel, camp and play golf throughout the western states and found the Volkswagen Westfalia and Eurovan campers to be his perfect car.
Jeff is survived by his Sister Kathy Yent and her husband, Donald, of Mathews, Virginia.
Undergraduate and graduate students in Landscape Architecture recently won a list of state, national and international landscape design and planning awards and recognitions. The Department of Landscape Architecture congratulates these students for their outstanding performance in learning and practicing Landscape Architecture.
October 1st, 2013, undergraduate students Evan Lee, Student ASA; George Kutnar, Student ASLA; Joshua Leyva, Student ASLA; Kevin Finch, Student ASLA; Nabyl Marcias, Student ASLA; Natasha Harkison, Student ASLA; and Kenny Sperling, Assoc. ASLA, received an Honor Award in the General Design Category of ASLA 2013 Student Awards. The team was advisored by Associate Professor Andrew O. Wilcox. ASLA has released a press release announcing 2013 Professional and Student Awards. Click here for the projection description and project boards.
April 23, 2013, graduate students Carlos Flores, Hieu Nguyen and Elena Tucci received Runner Up Honor from the EPA 2012 Campus RainWorks Challenge with their LA 512 project "The Hydrological Belt" supervised by Dr. Weimin Li. According to EPA staff, The "judges were very impressed with the way your team balanced environmental, social, and cultural perspectives in creating a unique design". EPA has released a press release announcing the winners and honorable mentions for the Campus RainWorks Challenge "
Graduate Students Jing Cai, Jingwen Guo and Meagan Yellot won the 2011 Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design Competition with their project "Building up Jordan Downs". Click here the projection description and project boards.
Undergraduate Students Oscar Gomez and Aaron Reece won an Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning Category in the 2011 ASLA Student Awards with their project "Bolsa Intervention: Strategizing Performative Ecologies". Details on the Teams' projection description and project boards are available here.
Graduate Students Jing Cai received highly recommended award from the 2011 SLANT International Design Competition with her project "Circles Nanjing Wall Park". Click here for projection description and project boards.
Undergraduate Students Miguel Jimmenez, Sergio Lopez, Samnang Thang won an Honor Award in the Communication Category in the 2011 ASLA Student Awards with their project "Boxed + Shipped". Details on the Teams' projection description and project boards are available here.
Graduate Students Elizabeth Hurst, Laura Male and BriAnna Weldon won a Second Place in the 2011 California State University Student Research Competition with their project, titled "Human V.S. Fire - Exploring Life at the Wildland-Urban Interface" presented at CSU Fresno."


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Back in January we told you how Penthouse was planning a 3D porn channel which would be the first of its kind in the world.
And now that channel is live here in Europe, and you should be able to pick it up with an Astra satellite if you point it in the right direction. Your satellite dish that is.
The native 3D channel show will show nudey action shot in high-definition and the channel will sit alongside the Penthouse HD channel, which launched in 2009 and now operates via 30 different platforms in 15 countries across the world.
"We are thrilled to be teaming up with SES Astra for the launch of the first Adult 3D Channel in the world" said Marc Bell, CEO of Penthouse.
"Working with SES Astra represents a spectacular opportunity to work with a leader in 3D technology delivery. We started shooting in 3D this past summer, and have significantly invested to perfect 3D production quality. Consumer excitement for 3D content is high, and Penthouse is the one studio that can rely on its broad expertise to deliver 3D in a manner unmatched by any other branded entertainment company."
The encrypted channel will be broadcast at 23.5 degrees east, 11pm - 5am CET from 1 March.
3D glasses and Kleenex at the ready. Kleenex to wipe the smudges off of your 3D glasses, of course - nothing else.

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Asus Eee PC MK90
SpecificationsNotebook: Asus Eee PC MK90
Processor: Intel Atom N270
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Display: 8.9 inch, 16:9, 1024x600 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 1.1kg
Price: 300 euro
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
Reviews for the Asus Eee PC MK90
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Asus is the manufacturer that came up with the whole idea of a netbook computer, a smaller, cheaper kind of laptop that's ideal for relatively undemanding users. Having tied in with Lamborghini for its high-end VX5 laptop Asus is trying a similar thing with its Eee PC netbook range. Not a bad computer, but in the end you're paying a lot for the Disney branding.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/25/2010
Rating: Total score: 60%
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).
These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).
Power efficient, cheap and slow Netbook single core CPU. Because of the in-order execution, the performance per MHz is worse than Core Solo or Celeron M processors.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
8.9": This is a very small format, which is used for UMPC, Netbooks or Subotebooks. There hardly exist any models with this display format. Working for a long time is uncomfortable. This tiny display is intended for outdoor usage.
The advantage is, that the mini-notebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few energy, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting for the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
1.1 kg: This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist hardly any models in this extreme class of weight. 7-9 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
Asus: ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated, a Taiwanese multinational company, produces motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, PDAs, computer monitors, notebook computers, servers, networking products, mobile phones, computer cases, computer components, and computer cooling systems. The company's 2007 revenues reached US$6.9 billion. ASUS also produces components for other manufacturers. The Eee PC initiated the netbook boom in 2008.
60%: Such a bad rating is rare. There exist hardly any notebooks, which are rated worse.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.


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Indiana Beats Memphis in 10
MILLINGTON, Tenn. - After pushing across three runs in the top half of the 10th inning, the Indiana baseball team held on for a 9-8 victory over Memphis in its second game at the Service Academy Classic on Saturday. The Hoosiers are now 2-0 in the Classic and 3-0 overall this season, while the Tigers fall to 1-1 in the Classic and overall.
IU did all of its damage in the 10th inning with two outs. Junior Reggie Watson reached on an error to jump-start the rally. Up next, junior Jay Brant was hit by a pitch, and senior Joe Kemp delivered an RBI single for the Hoosiers' first tally in the frame.
Junior Ryan Parker kept the line moving, lacing a single to left field. Brant scored and Kemp followed after an error by left fielder Chad House, putting Indiana up 9-6.
The Tigers plated a pair of runs to start the bottom half of the 10th, but sophomore Clint Crosier nailed down the final three outs, picking up the save in his first career appearance as a Hoosier.
Kemp earned the victory, his first since the 2002 season. Senior Brian Lortz started for the Hoosiers, holding Memphis to a pair of earned runs in 5 2/3 innings pitched. In his first collegiate appearance, freshman Chris McCombs tossed 2 2/3 innings in relief, allowing one run on one hit with a couple of strikeouts.
"We feel very fortunate to win," said Indiana head coach Bob Morgan. "We did not play as well as we did in our first two ballgames. Despite some mental mistakes, our guys played hard, persevered and won the game. We are pleased to get the win tonight."
It appeared IU had the game in hand heading into the ninth inning following a two-run rally in the eighth. Trailing 5-4, freshman Tyler Cox was hit by a pitch, forcing home junior Zach Boswell. Watson then delivered a single to right, plating sophomore Josh Richardson to put the Hoosiers up 6-5.
However, the Tigers knotted it up at 6-6 in the ninth when Ryan Martin doubled down the right-field line, scoring Jordan Tolliver.
Indiana kicked off the scoring with two runs in the first inning. Brant doubled to right, and Kemp blasted his second home run of the season to make it 2-0.
Memphis sliced the lead to 2-1 in the second, but the Hoosiers responded with two more in the third. Kemp scored on an error by Tiger starter Neil Schenk, and senior Corby Heckman brought home Parker with a sacrifice fly.
The Tigers took the lead back with two runs in both the sixth and seventh innings before IU reclaimed the advantage in the eighth inning.
Kemp ended the night 2-for-4 with three RBI and three runs scored, while Parker went 3-for-4 with an RBI and run scored. Brant added two runs in addition to going 2-for-5, and Watson wrapped the game up 2-for-6 with one RBI, one run and one stolen base.
The Hoosiers close out the Classic tomorrow morning with a showdown against Navy. First pitch is scheduled for 9 a.m. CST.
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Cleanup effort set in Ellendale
July 2, 2011 at 1:40 am in The Jamestown Sun
Several basements in Ellendale don't smell so nice these days.
The city of 1,300's sewer system backed up June 22 after the area received 7 inches of rain in three days, including about 3 1/2 inches in "one shot," said Charles Russell, Dickey County emergency manager. Many county residents have water problems due to high water tables and an unusually wet season.
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MetroRail stations will be closed this weekend
By Erin Mulvaney | January 30, 2013 | Updated: January 30, 2013 7:00pm
All rail stations on the MetroRail service and a portion of Main Street will be closed this weekend because of light rail construction and rail maintenance, the transit agency said.
The line, which runs from University of Houston-Downtown to the Fannin South station, will close from 7:45 p.m. Friday through midnight Sunday.
METRO will operate rail shuttle buses every 10 minutes during normal service hours on these days, but will not be able to access the UH-Downtown Station because of construction.
Also, Main Street between Texas and Walker will be closed between 7 p.m. Friday 4 a.m. Monday.


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Abuja — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday asked the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to resolve the leadership issue surrounding the alleged one-man ownership of the party.
This came as the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) described as unwarranted, the remarks allegedly made against it by the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, that the party is known for violence.
But, the PDP in a statement issued by Metuh re-iterated that "while the PDP is not losing sleep over the merger of the two opposition political parties since it is an exercise in democracy and since they both cannot defeat the PDP at elections, it is however not out of place for us to point out the major defects of the merger and why Nigerians will continue to reject it as an alternative to our great party."
The statement added: "The onus is entirely on these two parties to accept these glaring facts and seek ways out of the situation or to continue with the delusion that the merger of brood of dictators one of does not disguise its relish for the funeral train, is what Nigerians need at the moment."
The statement further added that the ACN was entirely owned by Senator Bola Tinubu, who according to the party, brooks no opposition to his dictates.
Meanwhile, CPC in a statement issued yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, the party stated rather than pointing accusing fingers at someone else, PDP should take the blame for the rising violence in the country.
In apparent response to the remarks by the PDP spokesman in which he characterised the CPC as a party that "believes in violence and religious politics, Fashakin said the last 13 years of the PDP-led Federal Government has witnessed an unprecedented level of violent acts, murder and corruption.
"As a Party, we have come to understand the PDP, as a Party, being peopled by egregiously violent ones, which earned it the sobriquet: 'nest of killers," he said.
Fashakin said while image makers of the PDP have penchant for conjectures, insinuations and unsupportable assertions on the issue of violence, CPC could defend its position with verifiable facts.
"It is no secret that the governors of Lagos, Osun and Ekiti States as well as the woefully failed candidate of the party in the recent Ondo State governorship election were Tinubu's direct imposition. It is also a fact that Tinibu unilaterally chased out Ope Bamidele, who won the primaries for Ekiti Central senatorial district and imposed his preferred candidate. Nigerians can still remember how Tinubu's wife made her way to the Senate."
The statement added that the comments by a cross section of Yoruba leaders on the recent victory of the Labour Party (LP) in Ondo State against an earlier call by the ACN for regional integration as the pivot of its campaign was an unmasked rejection of the ambition of one man to lord over an entire region.
"Does the ACN have a constitution beyond what Tinubu dictates? For a start, Tinubu's position as the leader of the party has no place in the constitution of the ACN yet the man usurps the functions of the party's constitutional structures, rendering the officers redundant. The National Working Committee of the ACN which is supposed to meet every two months according to section 7, 18a & c of its constitution has only met twice in February and August this year while the de facto NWC meetings hold daily at Boudillion, Lagos Court of Tinubu, the Emperor.
"Is that how to run a party that wants to give Nigeria its President?" If the spokesman of a political party cannot issue a release except what an Emperor that enjoys an unconstitutional party title dictates, would he not resign and assume responsibilities as an aide to the Emperor and allow an independent mind to anchor the publicity of the party? Again, is that possible in a party where the Emperor holds the power of life and death? That is the only reason why Lai Mohammed will continue to enjoy endless term of office as much as he pleases Tinubu.
"The fact of the merger is that of a double jeopardy as the case of the CPC is worse. Apart from the collywobbles of one man dictatorship, the party's violent antecedent, and the unrepentant posturing of General Buhari, the owner of the party as again captured in his parable of the bloody baboon and monkey earlier this year in Kaduna is a recipe for a road to Somalia. That is not the preference Nigerians will ever imagine.
"At the bottom line, Nigerians are faced with the worst form of indecent propaganda from the duo of Lai Mohammed and Rotimi Fashakin, whom Bola Tinubu also donated to the CPC. It is either they are attacking and insulting the President, the National Assembly or other institutions of democracy or losing sleep and get more rabid when their shortcomings are pointed out or are engaged in the illusion of an all powerful merger that will take over Nigeria.
The statement stressed that: "Unfortunately, these two men are political neophytes who cannot win councillorship elections in their respective wards against the PDP. These are green horns whose clout will at best fetch spokespersons of local government chapters were they members of our great party," the statement stressed.
He said part of the orgy of violence perpetrated by the PDP-led Federal Government, included, the ordering of the violent invasion of ODI, a predominantly Ijaw community in Bayelsa state in 1999, and the crude and violent invasion of some communities in Benue in 2001, which led to the deaths of no fewer than 300 people.
On corruption, Fashakin said it is on record that the PDP apparatchiks, in a bizarre show of ethical violence on the Nigerian people, rolled out the drums and trumpets to welcome back it's chieftain, Chief Bode George, who was convicted by a Court of competent jurisdiction for 63-count charge bordering on financial violence on the Nigerian state and had served two-year jail term.
"After his prison sentence, It is on record that, rather than putting this man through a structured party discipline for his misdemeanor, the PDP has continued to throw him up as its champion in obscenity and indecency," he said.
The CPC Spokesman accused the PDP leadership of having mismanaged the expectations Nigerians for good governance in the last 13 years and of resorting to a game of deceit in order to remain relevant.
"We are very certain that the Nigerian people, being the best judges, are capable of seeing through all the carefully woven obfuscation. On our part, we remain unfazed and would continue to pursue the agenda of peace and ethno-religious harmony of the Nigerian people," he said.
Fashakin also said the call by the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for the arrest of the CPC candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, over unsubstantiated allegations of sponsoring the post-election violence in the North, was laden with partisan motive.


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Fantasy Football
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1. Framm18 [Logic]
2. Molly Mae [Riddle]
3. Hirkala [Logic]
4. Darth Nox [Logic]
5. Lionheart [Riddle]
6. Berno [Riddle]
7. Aaryan [Riddle]
8. gvg [Logic]
9. Tiger_lily [Logic]
10. Tylor13579 (Framm's Brother) [Riddle]
1. Framm
2. Hirkala
3. Darth Nox
4. gvg
5. Tiger_lily
1. Molly Mae
2. Lionheart
3. Berno
4. Aaryan
5. Tylor13579
Draft Order according to Random.org
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And I might be able to set it up. I dunno though, I may just let ESPN do it.
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Are finals seeded by rank within your division? Or rank overall?
Are we even doing finals? Or best record at the end of the month?
Can I draft Bo Jackson?
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A recipe for honey-pickled apples
A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire. --Master Kilven, The Wise Man's Fear
Posted 27 July 2012 - 05:35 PM
What do divisions do? Top 2 teams from both Divisions will make it to the playoffs.
Are finals seeded by rank within your division? Or rank overall? Rank within your division, so 1(a) plays 2(b) and 1(b) plays 2(a)
Are we even doing finals? Or best record at the end of the month? Yes, we are having a playoffs.
Can I draft Bo Jackson? Sure, but I don't think that he would help your team very much.
Also Hirk is my Vice-Commissioner especially seeing as how I will not be able to attend the draft Tomorrow.
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A recipe for honey-pickled apples
A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire. --Master Kilven, The Wise Man's Fear
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Back in Business.
Are you intelligent? Of course you are. Do you love mind games? Of course you do? Join a Trainer's Manual Mafia in the Games today (well, once one opens up).
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For those that asked to follow along with the league. I will also be posting updates as to who won each week.
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A Doll's House is a must read for any student of literature ... or for anyone that's ever watched The Bachelor. Why? Because with this play, Ibsen provided the major spark for one of the most influential genres of drama: realism.
Today, realism has become so ubiquitous, especially in the world of film and television, that people just accept it as "normal," but take a moment to imagine this: if it weren't for Ibsen, we might not have such modern examples of realism as Law and Order, Downton Abbey, or—gasp!—Breaking Bad. Of course, without realism, we also might have been spared some of the indignity of reality TV, but hey, let's focus on the positives here.


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Farm Boy Joke
A farm boy is driving a horse drawn wagon loaded with potatoes around a
narrow winding dirt road. As the wagon rounds a curve the back wheel gets
too close to edge of the road rolls over spilling the potatoes. As the
boy climbs to the road dusting himself off a farmer runs from his house to
see if everyone is okay.
The boy sees the farmer coming and yells I need help my Paw is going to be
real mad. The farmer surveys the site and says I can help you turn the
wagon over and clean up the mess, but my wife is just putting dinner on
the table, fried chicken, mashed taters, and gravy, fresh green beans,
home made hot rolls, and an apple pie just out of the oven.
Come on and eat and then we can get this mess cleaned up and you can be on
your way.
Well okay the boy replies some what unsure. "But my Paw is going to be mad.
After the meal the boy has eaten so much he has to loosen his belt a notch.
The boy leans back in the chair and says we better get out there and get
the wagon rolled over and those taters picked up my Paw is going to be
The Farmer replies I know your Paw he'll understand, by the way where is
your Paw?
The boy replies ….. "under the wagon".


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Maria Antoinetta Berriozabal Visionary Leadership Award
Maria Antoinetta Berriozabal earned the distinction of serving as the first Mexican American woman on the city council of a major U.S. city when she represented San Antonio's District 1 from 1988-91. She ran an impressive campaign, capturing 47 percent of the vote. Berriozabal donated to OLLU approximately 90 cubic feet of records that document her 10 years on San Antonio's City Council, during which council members considered several major developments for the burgeoning city.
In the fall of 1991, Berriozabal was awarded a fellowship at the Institute of Politics at the John f. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She taught a course on women, minorities and public policy. Berriozabal help found Hispanas Unidas, a non-profit group dedicated to the education, empowerment and advancement of minority women. She has dedicated her life as an advocate of educational opportunities for all as well and social and environmental justice.
In 2011, The OLLU Center for Mexican American Studies and Research created the Maria Antoinetta Berriozabal Visionary leadership award. Recipients of this award demonstrate evidence of:
• Providing effective visionary leadership and risk taking that supports educational advancement in the community.
• Providing leadership to advance the cause of social justice in the community.
The award is presented on a yearly basis at the Center for Mexican American Studies and Research Conference and is selected by an ad hoc committee appointed by the Director of the CSMAR.
Prior Recipients: 2011 – Antonio Rigual, Ph.D.
Sr. Maria "MC" Flores Outstanding Student Scholar Award
Center for Mexican American Studies and Research Scholars Conference (CMASR)
The Sr. Maria "MC" Flores Outstanding Student Scholar Award is a cash prize bestowed upon an undergraduate student of Our Lady of the Lake University for the best paper presented at the annual Mexican American Studies & Research Scholars Conference. OLLU undergraduate students who present at the conference are judged by a panel of academics within and outside the University based on specific criteria.
The Mexican American Studies & Research Conference was first conceived in 2002 by Sr. Maria Eva Flores, CDP, PhD. as an event to showcase undergraduate research at OLLU. While the conference has evolved to include graduate students and academics from outside the university, the conference still showcases undergraduate research and the CMASR created this award in 2011 to recognize undergraduate research excellence.
This award was established for Sr. Maria Eva for her dedication to the discipline of Mexican American studies, her tireless teaching efforts in promoting academic excellence among undergraduates and preparing students to successfully enter graduate studies. Sr. Maria Eva is Professor of History and Mexican American Studies at OLLU and received her PhD in History from Arizona State University. She served as Director of the Center from Mexican American Studies & Research from 2001 – 2010.
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The Public Charter School Grant Program, Request for Applications, webinar was presented on August 6, 2013 at the California Department of Education. The speakers included Julie Russell the Director of Charter Schools Division, Cindy Chan, Administrator, and Benjamin Walker, Steve Smith, Pete Callas, Robert Wilson, and Colleen Quinn, Education Program Consultants.
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Slide 1: Title Slide
Welcome to the California Department of Education's (CDE) presentation on the Public Charter School Grant Program (PCSGP) Application for fiscal year 2013–14. My name is Julie Russell, Director of the Charter Schools Division at the CDE, and joining me are Cindy Chan, Administrator, and Benjamin Walker, Steve Smith, Pete Callas, Robert Wilson, and Colleen Quinn, Education Programs Consultants in the Charter Schools Division.
Slide 2: Purpose of Webinar
The purpose of this Webinar is to review the 2013–14 PCSGP application posted as a Request for Applications (RFA). Topics will include a walk-through of the application requirements for charter developers applying for PCSGP funding and provide technical assistance sources. We will briefly discuss important changes for this year's application process. Please type any questions you have into the Q&A panel. We will pause to answer questions periodically throughout the presentation. If we do not get to a question, we will post online select questions and answers in a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) follow-up.
Slide 3: What to Have in Front of You
During this presentation, we will review all components of the application. We recommend that you have the RFA available for easy referral. We will cover the application's requirements and components starting on page 16 of the RFA, the scoring criteria on page 22, as well as reviewing PCSGP Forms 1–10 and STD Form 204 on pages 27–45.
Slide 4: Time line
Applications are due to the CDE no later than 4:30 p.m. Monday, September 16, 2013. The completed application must be received, not postmarked, by the Charter Schools Division on this date. To ensure receipt, we suggest applicants build in a sufficient time for mail delivery. For applicants wanting to deliver the application in person, a table will be staffed from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Monday, September 16, 2013, in the CDE lobby at 1430 N Street, Sacramento.
After submission of the application, during October 7–9, a team of peer reviewers will review and score the applications using the PCSGP rubric included in Appendix A of the RFA beginning on page 46. We will walk through the PCSGP rubric later in this presentation.
Once the applications are peer reviewed, the grant developer will be notified of the peer review results. After passing the peer review, applicants will undergo a review of their budgets. Following a successful budget review, the CDE will issue sub-grant Grant Award Notifications (GAN) to funded charter schools. To assist schools in preparing a budget, the CDE will host a budget training webinar on August 15, 2013. It is recommended that all who are applying for PCSGP funding attend the budget training webinar.
Note: PCSGP funding is contingent on California receiving continuation award funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Slide 5: Summary of PCSGP
Authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title V, Part B, Section 5201 through 5211, the PCSGP provides funding for a newly established or conversion charter school. PCSGP funding is fundamentally intended to assist in the development of high quality and high performing charter schools. Funds are to be used for planning, program design, and initial implementation of a charter school.
Slide 6: Focus On Improvement
To receive a PCSGP sub-grant, a charter school developer must submit an application that complies with the provisions described in the RFA. The charter school must have enrollment of at least 50 pupils during the first year, and at least 100 pupils within the second year of operation. Funds are designed to support effective and sustainable improvement activities that increase the likelihood that all students will learn challenging academic content, and achieve proficiency on state assessments. The charter school must also comply with requirements for Autonomy and Public Random Drawing.
Slide 7: Who Can Apply
A newly established or conversion charter school is eligible to apply for PCSGP funding. The charter school must not have been serving students for more than one school year.
Developers who have applied to an authorized public chartering authority, and are awaiting approval, may apply. The Charter petition must be submitted to the authorizer prior to September 16, 2013, and must be approved no later than April 30, 2014, by the authorizer noted on the PCSGP grant application at the time of submission. This due date is a change from the previous year's date, which was due at the end of the state fiscal year. An earlier approval date allows schools to participate in the current year's funding versus the next fiscal year's funding and application process.
Please note that Charter schools that have received a School Improvement Grant (SIG) are not eligible to apply for PCSGP funds.
Slide 8: Award Decisions
Applications must fully comply with RFA requirements as described in the narrative and assurances signed by the applicant. Upon submission, applications will be read and scored by a trained group of peer reviewers. Applications receiving a "1" in any of the required narrative elements, or, otherwise not meeting the requirements outlined in the RFA, will not be considered for funding.
Applications meeting RFA requirements may be funded based on an overall score in descending order. If insufficient funds are available to fund all quality applications, other factors may be considered, such as reasonable geographic distribution, school size, and grade level distribution.
FY 2013–14 funds are available September 1, 2013. California anticipates receiving approximately $57 million in FY 2013–14 for PCSGP sub-grants. An approved charter school application may receive a maximum of $575,000; the grant award period is for up to 36 months.
Slide 9: Charter School Responsibilities
The charter school applicant must demonstrate the capacity to implement the program described in the narrative to include:
- Screening and selecting a quality external reviewer for the required third party reviewer
- Aligning federal, state, and other resources and modifying practices/policies to effectively implement described program
- Describing challenging annual student goals on the California Standards Test in reading/language arts and mathematics as monitoring measures
- Consulting stakeholders on application implementation
- Following federal expenditure guidelines
- Reporting quarterly and annual fiscal progress
Slide 10: Reporting and Accountability
Applicants awarded PCSGP funds must satisfy periodic reporting and accountability requirements throughout the term of the sub-grant as addressed in the RFA. These requirements include (A) program accountability; (B) fiscal reporting requirements; (C) performance reporting; (D) annual budget reports; (E) creating an annual budget; (F) monitoring; and (G) program evaluation. More detail is provided in the RFA on pages 12–14.
Slide 11: CDE Responsibilities
The CDE is accountable to U.S. Department of Education for monitoring PCSGP recipients through:
- monitoring implementation progress and program compliance
- validating implementation through interviews and site visits
- ensuring that the funded charter school meets eligibility requirements and provides all assurances that it will comply with requirements
- ensuring recipients implement program as described in the application within the time line prescribed
- reviewing necessary fiscal and program forms
These requirements are defined in the RFA on pages 11–14.
Slide 12: Question Break
We will take a short break so that you may type your questions into the text box.
Please note that if questions are not responded to during this live webinar, they may appear in a Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ on our web site shortly.
Slide 13: Application Submission
A complete application with original signatures must be received by 4:30 p.m. on September 16, 2013, in order to be considered for funding. All narrative sections must be fully addressed and the page limits observed. All pages must be in the order listed on the Application Checklist. Please refer to the Submission of Applications on page 25 of the RFA. An original, plus three hard copies, and one electronic copy (Microsoft Word 2003 or later), single-spaced in 12 point Arial font with one inch margins, must be received by mail (not postmarked by) or in person, by 4:30 p.m., Monday, September 16, 2013. The electronic copy must be submitted on a CD or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com on or before Monday, September 16, 2013. Please do not submit your electronic copy via USB Flash Drive.
Slide 14: Application Checklist
As indicated, the Application Checklist must appear on the front of the application, followed by forms in the following order:
Form 1 Application Cover Sheet
Form 2 Narrative Response, Part 1
Form 3 Narrative Response, Part 2
Form 5 Proposed Budget Summary
Form 6 Proposed Budget Narrative
Form 7 Charter School Work Plan/Activities
STD 204 Payee Data Record
Please note that Forms 4, 8, 9, and 10 are instructions or assurances and do not need to be submitted.
Slide 15: Application Cover Sheet (Form 1)
Most of this form is self-explanatory. However, there is a new question added to the form. "Is your school managed by a CMO? If yes, note the name of the CMO, if no, then leave blank."
The "Grant Award Information" box (on page 2 of form 1) refers to the total amount of funds requested for the charter school. The application must be signed in blue ink by the Administrator or designee.
In the "Certification, Assurance, and Signature Section," the administrator or designee signs this section in blue ink. The signature indicates that the signee has read and will comply with all assurances that pertain to the Federal CSP. It should be noted that the Public Random Drawing (PRD) process for the State of California must follow assurance number 21 on pages 42-43 of the RFA.
Slide 16: Narrative Response–Part 1 (Form 2)
The Narrative Response section consists of seven narrative elements. There is a page limit of 15 total pages for this section. The responses must address all components of each element. Applicants should use the PCSGP rubric, which begins on page 46 of the RFA, as a guide when preparing this section. A score of 2, 3, or 4 on each required item is necessary to be considered for funding.
Slide 17: Scoring Rubric
The rubric is designed to provide guidance when writing the narrative and also serves as a tool to quantify the quality of the application.
- Each of the seven elements will be scored independently as described starting on page 46.
- Applicants will receive a score based on a four point system of "Advanced", "Adequate", "Limited", or "Inadequate", for each element.
Any of the seven elements scored as a "1" will result in the application not being considered for funding.
Slide 18: Educational Program (EP) Element 1
The applicant must describe the educational program to be implemented in the charter. The response must include a description of:
- How the program will enable all students to meet challenging State student academic achievement standards
- Grade level or ages of students to be served
- Goals and objectives of the charter school, and methods by which the charter school will determine its progress toward achieving those goals and objectives
- A plan to develop teacher effectiveness measures that include student achievement data as a substantial portion of the teacher evaluation.
- Curriculum and instructional practices where applicable
- Strategies to assess and evaluate the impact on student achievement
Slide 19: Charter Management Plan (CMP) Element 2
The applicant must clearly describe how the charter school will be managed. The response must include a description of:
- The administrative relationship between the charter school and the authorizer
- How data will be used to inform instruction and evaluations
Slide 20: Community and Parent Involvement (CPI) Element 3
The applicant must describe the level of community and parent support for the charter school. The description must include:
- How parents and other members of the community will be involved in the planning, program design, and implementation of the charter school
- The process that the charter school will follow to ensure ongoing parental involvement
Slide 21: Sustainability and Alignment of Resources (SAR) Element 4
The applicant must identify all resources, such as other federal, state, and/or private funding, available to the school that will be used to support implementation of the charter program. Examples the applicant should consider include Title II, Part A funds used for recruiting high-quality teachers; Title III, Part A funds used to improve English proficiency of English learner students; and local Control Funding Formula funds used for instructional materials and professional development.
The applicant must describe the process for ensuring that these resources will be coordinated with PCSGP funding to ensure maximum effectiveness in the use of all resources.
The applicant must also propose a plan for how the school will maintain programs when the grant expires.
Slide 22: Targeted Capacity Building Activities (TCB) Element 5
Capacity building is a significant component of the PCSGP. Applicants are required to devote a portion of the grant funds to target capacity-building activities. The exception to this requirement is if a successful charter management organization or applicant can demonstrate that they have already engaged in these activities. For the application, the applicant must either describe how they currently meet this requirement, or if not, how the charter school will use the PCSGP funds to complete targeted capacity building activities that will increase the likelihood of greater sustainability. Capacity building activities include, but are not limited to:
- Building and sustaining data systems
- Opportunities for teachers to plan and engage in professional development
- Instructional development and improvement systems
- Instructional improvement systems for technology-based tools and other strategies to manage continuous instructional improvement
- Leadership and governance (governance and fiscal management training must be completed in the first year of operation.)
- Business and personnel services
- Strategic planning
Slide 23: Autonomy (AUT) Element 6
The charter school must be highly autonomous. A program is defined as highly autonomous if it exhibits a high degree of autonomy and flexibility in governance, operations, staffing, and financial decision processes. Page 6–7 of the RFA provides additional information on autonomy. The applicant must provide a description of the level of autonomy the school has from the authorizer.
Slide 24: Notification and Admissions (NA) Element 7
The applicant must describe how students are informed about the charter school and that children are given an equal opportunity to attend the charter school.
Also, the application must describe the school's admission's policy.
It should be noted that the Public Random Drawing (PRD) process for the State of California must follow assurance number 21 on pages 42-43 of the RFA.
Slide 25: Narrative Response–Part 2, if applicable
The Narrative Response–Part 2 is not required by all applicants. This section pertains to Compliance with Individual with Disabilities Education Act (or IDEA) and if an applicant is eligible, and applying for the higher grant award amount.
- If a charter school is considered a local educational agency (LEA) for special education purposes, the applicant must describe how it will comply with the federal requirements for IDEA.
- For the higher grant award, an applicant must describe how it meets the criteria, which is:
- The school is located, or the majority of students served reside in an attendance area of a school that has been identified as persistently lowest achieving, or eligible for SIG funding. OR
- The school is located, or the majority of students served reside in an attendance area of a school that is in Program Improvement Year 3, 4, or 5 and has an API decile rank of 1 or 2.
As a reminder, if the school receives SIG funding, that school is not eligible for PCSGP funding.
More information on the higher grant award is provided on page 10 of the RFA.
Slide 26: Question Break
We will take a short break so that you may type your questions into the text box.
Please note that if questions are not responded to during this live webinar, they may appear in a Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ on our web site shortly.
Slide 27: Charter School Work Plan/Activities (PCSGP Form 7)
All applicants must complete Form 7, the Charter School Work Plan/Activities form. There is a 15-page limit for this form. Applicants must provide a description of activities that align to and support the full implementation of the proposed program. These activities will be used in the monitoring of the charter schools progress in planning and implementation of the PCSGP funds.
At least one activity must be provided for each of the seven elements in the narrative response. Each activity must include a time line, which includes specific start and end dates, the individual person or position that is responsible for oversight and monitoring of that activity, and the type of evidence that will be provided to the CDE to verify the implementation of that activity.
The targeted capacity-building element is not required for those applicants that can demonstrate that they have already engaged in specific activities.
Please note, do not complete the "Percentage Completed" column in this form. This column will only be completed if your application is approved for funding. This column will be used to document evidence for the Annual Work Plan Progress Report.
Slide 28: Proposed Budget
The application must include:
- The Proposed Budget Summary (Form 5)
- The Proposed Budget Narrative (Form 6)
In awarding PCSGP funds to a charter school, the CDE has the authority to determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether less funding is needed to implement the proposed program and activities fully and effectively.
PCSGP Funds:
- May be used for staff salaries, materials, services, training, equipment, supplies, evaluation, facilities, or other purposes, except as specifically limited by all applicable legal requirements including all regulations or statutes, or by the CDE.
- May be used for supplementing, not supplanting, existing services, and may not be used to supplant federal, state, local, or other non federal funds.
- May not be used for construction, transportation, class size reduction, or any purchases not directly related to any element in the application.
Budget training and examples will be provided in an upcoming budget webinar.
Slide 29: Proposed Budget Summary (Form 5)
When developing the proposed budget summary, please keep in mind:
- Funding levels that reflect the projected cost of implementing the proposed plan and activities. It is projected that an approved applicant will receive a maximum of $375,000 or $575,000, if approved for the higher grant award amount. The grant award is for a period of up to 36 months.
- Budgets must address all years of the grant.
- Proposed Budget Summary forms may not be modified and broken down further than the object codes provided (e.g., 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.).
Slide 30: Proposed Budget Narrative (Form 6)
The Proposed Budget Narrative must provide more detail than the Proposed Budget Summary. The Proposed Budget Narrative should describe costs associated with each activity indicated in the Work Plan/Activity Form. The budget narrative must be grouped by object codes (e.g. 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.) and include totals by object code series, year, and full term of the grant.
Slide 31: Charter School Work Plan/Activities (Form 7)
As we previously stated, all applicants must include actions and activities required to implement the proposed plan. The Work Plan must include a time line with specific start and end dates of implementation, and the position (and person, if known) responsible for oversight, and types of evidence that will be submitted to the CDE to verify implementation. With the exception of charter schools already meeting the targeted capacity building activities, the Work Plan must address all other required elements in the narrative response (Form 2), and include specific activities for the elements.
Slide 32: General Assurances and Conditions (Forms 9 and 10)
Signature of the administrator or designee on the front of the application indicates (PCSGP Form 1 page 2) acknowledgement and agreement to all assurances. The General Assurances and Certifications (Form 9) and Sub-grant Specific Conditions and Assurances (Form 10) are required to be maintained on site, and are not to be submitted with the application.
Slide 33: Technical Assistance Resources
There are a number of resources that have been identified on pages 79-80 in the RFA. U.S. Department of Education's Website contains guidance, resources, and other PCSGP related information. Links to the Websites are provided on this slide.
Slide 34: Need Additional Information?
Contact the Charter Schools Division by phone at 916-322-6029 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
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The Wayne State Alumni Newsletter delivery format has changed to this new electronic version.
The electronic newsletter allows Wayne State College to keep you up to date on alumni, student and faculty successes in a cost-effective and environmentally conscious manner. For your convenience, a print-friendly version of the online newsletter can be found here.
Curt Frye Inaugurated as Wayne State College President
Wayne State faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends came together for the inauguration of Curt Frye as the 12th president on Oct. 6 in Ramsey Theatre. The ceremony was marked by Frye's charge to the audience to keep the college's mission at the forefront of the development and improvement of Wayne State's unique higher education programs.
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Larry Moser Receives Alumni Service Award
The 2011 Alumni Service Award was presented to Larry Moser at the Homecoming/Hall of Fame Banquet on Oct. 8. The award recognizes alumni who have enhanced the college through dedicated service, promotion and financial support.
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Dr. E. LeRoy Simpson of Woodland Park, Colo., passed away Sept. 16, 2011, in Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, Colo., of complications from his year and a half long battle against leukemia. The college's track facility was dedicated in memory of Dr. Simpson on Oct. 8 during Homecoming.
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Just got the parts to upgrade my Q6600 system to a i5-2500k rig, using a Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3 motherboard. One of the features on the board is some LucidLogix Virtu GPU Virtualization thing, where aparently it can switch between the onboard for mundane tasks, and my 560+ for more demanding stuff. I've read through the manuals, as well as an article on it from anandtech, and I can't figure out which card to connect my TV to (using my TV as a display). I use HDMI, and both my standalone card and the motherboard have HDMI.
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A steady 10 week summer diet of tv and cannonballs in the pool can do a lot more damage than we realize. Referred to as Summer Slide or Brain Drain, learning loss is inevitable when kids go long stretches without engaging in learning experiences. Most students lose an average of 2 months of math skills, and low income students are at far greater risk, falling behind an average 2-3 months in reading skills.
"So what can we do?!" concerned parents ask at end-of-year conferences. While hiring tutors or enrolling in summer school programs are great choices for some, for many families any teaching that happens over the summer months falls to the parents, and putting on that Teacher Hat can be a daunting prospect!
As teachers, it's easy enough to provide parents with worksheets, reading logs, and math drills, but this can easily backfire and set families up for a summer of battles. Parents often feel they need to structure learning as "sit down and finish 3 workbook pages," prying kids from a fun activity and making learning time the equivalent of force-feeding brussel sprouts.
The key to helping parents support their child's continued growth over the summer is giving them the tools to make it fun and seamless, and there are great ideas out there! Need inspiration? Check out this family's Garage Olympics – learning is EVERYWHERE here, but when bubbles and sprinklers are involved it hardly feels like a math class!
With some creativity, the possibilities for fun summer learning are endless, yet the transition from flashcards to hopscotch multiplication is often a stretch.
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Rustic. Wood-fired. Sustainable and seasonal. These are the hallmarks of the dishes that can be enjoyed during breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. Many of the dishes draw inspiration from the wonderful fresh-baked breads produced right next door at our Bakery. And all of our meals feature organic, seasonal and sustainable ingredients, many of which are prepared in the kitchen's wood-fired oven and rotisserie, which allow for long-cooked flavors, and for the simple, fresh ingredients to shine.
As you might expect with a world-class bakery next door, desserts are no mere afterthought, but are the highlight of the meal. The dessert menu features both plated desserts and cakes, in such flavors as Chocolate Devil's Food with Dulce de Leche filling, and Kayvon's Signature Carrot Cake. The selections change often, so that every dining experience can end in a uniquely sweet way. Enjoy a Warm Apple Crostata served with Housemade Vanilla Ice Cream and Warm Cider Caramel; or Mayfield Bakery's take on the classic, S'more a Crumbly Graham Cracker Tart with Chocolate Ganache and Housemade Toasted Marshmallows – a dessert guaranteed to cure your sweet tooth!
An international wine list of approachable wines has been crafted to complement Mayfield's comfortable American cuisine. With 100 selections by the bottle and many more by the glass, the wine list features delicious, high value wines for every palate. In addition, artisanal beers focusing on small-production microbreweries are also offered.


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Bacara Resort & Spa Rating: 4.5 Pearls
This upscale property is a gorgeous destination resort boasting top-notch amenities, including some especially included with families in mind. The kids' club is an 1,800-square-foot facility with a ratio of six-to-one child-to-adult staff offering daily activities for kids ages five to 12. There are half- and full-day programs available, including sports, science projects, arts and crafts, and multimedia games. There are three saline-filtered pools, each with gradually-sloping, zero-depth entry. The tennis center offers adult and junior clinics as well as private instruction, and the Bistro restaurant features kids' menus. Cribs, rollaway beds and high chairs are available upon request.
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While there's no kids' club here, this cute boutique earns a spot for its beachside location. There are also two lovely, quiet pools on-site, and free bike rentals, great for getting to the beach across the street or to the action in town. Deluxe Rooms have either sleeper sofas or two double beds, and the Santa Barbara Rooms can sleep up to four.


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Phoenix, Ariz., November 30, 2011―Eighteen Anthem Education campuses are participating as drop centers for this year's Toys for Tots campaign.
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We went to the home parade this year.
I usually avoid it because it makes me want to move to a bigger and better house,
but this year I actually wanted to go to reap some decor inspiration.
We saw some fun things. Included are pictures of some of my favorite features.
It was made by some talented ladies at Blacksheep Boutique
Who doesn't need extra storage locations...???
So fun and festive.....
My daughter so wants this in her room now that she saw it....
Using clippies inside frames your children's art is framed without having to deal with the glass and assemblage. Great way to easily and quickly change out their art as well!!
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What a comfortable space to relax and enjoy!
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Interesting. Back in 66-68 era I played what was probably Spacewars on the mainframes at U of IL [I was a math major and had a friend who worked there after midnight, so . . .].
Also, I first saw Pong in a bar in Kansas in either late 72 or early 73 and it was, indeed, on/in a barrel with chairs around it. I believe the bar had two of them at about 5K/per. The bar was in the old [brand new then] Crown Center Hotel -- the one where a walkway [that I had walked on] collapsed a few years alter and killed 4 or so and injured dozens or more.
Anyhoo, from around noon to way late those machines were always surrounded by players and those waiting a turn. Since they were set up between 4 chairs, the standard seemed to be that as long as you bought drinks you could keep playing, no matter how many were waiting.
It probably didn't take long to figure out they had a winner. I bought the home version that attached to your tv for my kids in 1975-77 or in that time frame.
Oh. the 5K price is what I remember being told by the bartender. It was definitely Pong, probably around May-June of 1973, in one of the bars in the Crown Center. I remember that price because it was HUGE in 73 and I wondered how the machine would pay for itself.
If the price was really closer to 1,000 having it would make more sense.
It was kind of like a table. Barrel underneath, tv screen on top in the middle and room around the screen for drinks and snacks.
That was also the time a young lady who worked for the company [she was 6 feet tall] and I got into an elevator and she noticed that she had to look up at 6-7 guys also in the elevator with us. When we got out she was wondering who the heck all those tall guys were. Given that one of them was redheaded and 7 feet tall, I was guessing it was Bill Walton and some of his teammates. She'd never heard of Walton or the team.
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I never thought that I would enjoy running as much as I do. I never really thought that I see my love of riding wane. But both of those things seem to have happened.
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New Hampshire Elects First Ever All-Female Congressional Delegation
It was "Ladies Night" in New Hampshire this Election Day as the Granite State became the first ever to elect all female representatives to the U.S. Senate and House.
Last night, Democrats Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster were elected to the U.S. House, joining female Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D ) and Kelly Ayotte (R).
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UTSA hosts team from national group for research administration training
By Christi Fish
Associate Director of Media Relations
(Oct. 24, 2012) -- Experienced professionals from the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) visited UTSA recently to deliver two-and-a-half days of intensive professional development training to UTSA research administration staff members. More than 50 staff attended the training including personnel who are staffing UTSA's six research service centers. The research service centers have been operational since Sept. 1.
The NCURA workshop opened with a discussion of the roles and responsibilities of research administrators. Throughout the workshop, NCURA faculty provided a forum to promote discussions about a variety of issues that research administrators commonly face. Instructional topics included federal regulations, proposal preparation, award review, negotiation and management of awards, post-award obstacles, compliance, and closeout and audit issues.
"NCURA is the leading international professional organization for university research administrators," said James Casey, UTSA assistant vice president for sponsored project administration. "The training NCURA delivered will most certainly ensure a seamless transition to our new organizational structure."
The UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research is restructuring to provide a superior level of faculty and staff service in grants management and become more productive and efficient with its resources. In addition to new staff positions such as a research ombudsman and a research concierge, the six research service centers on the Main and Downtown Campuses provide scholars with seamless sponsored project administration including grant opportunity identification, proposal preparation and submission, grant award processing and management, and grant close-out procedures.
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2 and 5 Train Lines
219th Street Station
219th Street and
White Plains Road
Joseph D'Alesandro
Homage, 2006
faceted glass in platform windscreens
MTA Arts for Transit
faceted glass in platform windscreens
MTA Arts for Transit
Just as a train station is filled with people, so too is the faceted glasswork at the 219th Street Station. Silhouettes of people are expressively rendered by artist, Joseph d'Alesandro, to commu- nicate a variety of emotions and feelings. Simultaneously, colors are used as a complement to a series of patterns created by the repetition of geometric shapes that form the background of the work, distinguishing the foreground from the background.
Color is the most stimulating component of everything we see. The shapes of figures in this work are created in colors that convey culture, nationality, ethnicity and individuality. These glass panels honor the people of the city in vibrant colors representing the vitality of the people who are constantly moving forward through this train station.
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Btw i have Arma 2 on its own partition by itself...does that make any difference?
Would setting up the paging file on the secondary partition on the same HDD (where the game is not installed) improve FPS?
Windows 8.1
Intel Core i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz-3.50GHz
3072MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Yes, I have a gaming laptop.
No, you cannot put a page file on RAM, that's where the data is to begin with.
RAM holds data that is being worked on by applications that are open.
Some of this data is not being accessed as frequently so it is temporarily moved to a paging file on the hard drive to make room for higher priority data.
Ideally, you would like to have enough RAM so that you never need to page anything because it a slow process to write it to disk, then have to read it back into RAM when you need it again.
Unfortunately, it happens, especially if you have a lot of background programs running or low memory. If you have a secondary, physical hard drive (partitions don't count) then you can make use of the full speed of both drives. If you already have ArmA2 installed on your other drive, then you are already making use of both drives. However if your Windows and your ArmA2 are on the same drive, then move your paging file to a second drive. You can do it through the Control Panel, just google for instructions.
It's not gonna be a big performance boost. Defragging your hard drive would probably provide more of a boost depending on how fragmented it is.
Not many people have 16GB of RAM, (I only have 4GB on 32bit windows, but I am fine with that) so another poor man's version of this tweak is to get a USB 2.0 Flash Drive (your motherboard also has to support USB 2.0). Most flash drives have slow write speeds, but their read speed is actually very fast. You don't have to reinstall ArmA2, just copy your install folder to the flash drive and change your shortcut to run the game from there. Just don't let anyone know you're running ArmA2 from a flash drive, they'll probably be dicks and pull out the stick while you're playing the game.
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Regarding pagefile, partitions and so on:
The problem is that Arma 2 has to access the harddisk very often. Accessing the harddisk is VERY slow in computer terms.
The pagefile (a part of the harddrive that Windows uses to "extend" the main memory) will also be accessed fairly often on most running systems.
So, how to gain something?
Having the pagefile on a different PHYSICAL drive than "your other stuff". So when Windows is accessing it, it is still "slow" because of being a harddisk, but it is faster than having it on the same drive because there will less mechanical movement in the harddisk to access it (it allways accesses the same "space"). The same goes for your other disk. Again, computer terms: mechanical movement => slow.
Having Arma 2 on a seperate partition for itself can be a benefit, because it may be easier (faster) to defrag that partition, so you might actually do it more often, especially after patching or deinstalling/installing mods. Defraging your harddrive => your data is "more in one place" => less mechanical movement => you know the deal.
Keep in mind that IIRC in XP you need around 20% of free disk space (partition space) to run a defrag properly.
In XP at least, you can set your virtual memory (pagefile) to be of fixed size (rather than let Windows determine needed size on the fly). Doing so might also improve your system speed.
Lots of questions - let me try to answer.
It depends. If you want to start Arma2 from within Steam, you need to reinstall. If you don't mind, you can just start arma2.exe from the folder on the ramdisk (or create shortcut to your dektop).I have steam version, do I have to install again or like you said, just move the folder?
It very much depends on which RamDisk software you use. I only have experience with RamDisk plus (and tried it the first time with this exercise), and it was pretty painless. I would suggest though that you read the FAQ/Helpfile that comes with the program carefully. (http://www.superspeed.com/)Could you please help us idiots setup a RAM disk? I've got 6 GB of memory, 4 of which ArmA II never touches, so that may help.
In regards to your RAM - 6GB is not enough to get everything into the ramdisk. The folder with all the assets (pbo files and such, I'm not at my gaming PC right now), which is the stuff you want to have on the RamDisk, is 8.2GB alone after a fresh installs and might be bigger with addons/mods.
What I would suggest in case of less than 12GB RAM (besides adding another 6GB) is to to be selective. Use Process Monitor from Sysinternals, set a filter to only monitor your Arma 2 directory, play for a while, identify the files that are being read from most in ProcMon, and move these files to the RamDisk. You can then create NTFS symlinks to the files you moved from the original directory to the RamDisk (in Vista and above, the command is mklink x:\filename.extension y:\filename extension, in XP you need tools).
This might in fact be a rather clumsy way to achieve some of the benefits - I guess the best solution is to buy more RAM. If you are really into ARMA2, it is well worth it.
Without workarounds (see above), yes. My ARMA2 folder is 8.5GB. You need at least 12GB RAM to be able to create a 8-10GB Ramdisk. Even this might be too small if you have lots of custom assets files - your mileage may vary.So this only works for people who have a shitload of ram, or does it use hard drive space?
I am not an expert with mods and assets - could someone check whether they use their own pbo's ?What size is Your Arma II folder? My Arma II folder is 11.4GB with a few addons and the CAA1 mod
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My ArmA2 is 12.8GB! CAA1 is 2.73GB. Steam game cache is 7.8GB. That's 2.27GB of addons!
Let's see if I install 32GB of RAM it might just be enough to install Windows and ArmA2 into RAM. I'll need either a VM or some kind of RAMdisk bootloader. Any suggestions? LOL j/k.


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Sonny is 15 h.h. and 1300 lbs. Sonny is grandson of Sun Frost, a world champion sire and sire of ROM Performance. Sonny's foals are being successfully shown in the Czech. Republic, and in barrel racing. Sonny produces
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We are so happy with the Sun Frost breeding that we purchased a direct son of Sun Frost. Red is 15.1 h.h., 1300 lbs. and a gorgeous blood red bay. With solid cow horse, performance and speed genetics. Red brings it all. His foals are solid and colorful, so take advantage of the opportunity to select one of these superb, young prospects.
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Runners take part in last year's Space Coast Marathon. The difference between being in the front and back could be your shoes. The Space Coast Marathon is being run at 6:15 a.m. today.
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If the return of cooler weather across the nation motivates you to begin running or to pick up where you left off, your first step might be to invest in new shoes.
The choice can be bewildering, with all the lightweight, flexible shoes flooding the stores and posing a stark contrast to the traditional, heavily cushioned, rigid ones.
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You don't need insecticides or ant traps to ant-proof your kitchen. Just give it the lemon treatment. First squirt some lemon juice on door thresholds and windowsills. Then squeeze lemon juice into any holes or cracks where the ants are getting in. Finally, scatter small slices of lemon peel around the outdoor entrance. The ants will get the message that they aren't welcome. Lemons are also effective against roaches and fleas: Simply mix the juice of 4 lemons (along with the rinds) with 1/2 gallon (2 liters) water and wash your floors with it; then watch the fleas and roaches flee. They hate the smell. See more uses for Lemons.
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Thousands of businesses have used Microsoft ASP.NET to build professional, dynamic websites. In this course, web developer David Gassner demonstrates the tools needed to build and deploy a dynamic site using ASP.NET 3.5 or 4.5. Covering everything from installing and configuring Visual Web Developer 2008 or Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web and SQL Server Express to creating web form pages, this course is designed to give beginning and intermediate developers hands-on experience.
In ASP.NET pages that you want to prepare for printing, there are times when there are elements that you see on the screen that you don't want to appear on the page. In this example, I'm working with the file SuppressingElements.aspx. I'll press Ctrl+F5 to run the page in the browser and then I'll show the same page in Print Preview. Notice that the menu, that is, the elements on the page that appear on the screen that allows the user to navigate around the website, also appear on the printed page. I would like to suppress that element, so it doesn't appear when the document is printed. There are two steps you have to follow for this. First of all, the element that you want to hide must have a unique ID and that unique ID can't change each time the page loads.
You have to deal with the actual HTML elements and so you might have to do a little bit of diagnosis on your page to find out how the element IDs are being generated. Let's run the page again. This time when the page appears in the Internet Explorer, I'm going to right-click on the page and select View Source and then I'll press Ctrl+F and I'll search for the string home and I'll jump to the anchor tags that constitute the menu. I would like to hide this div tag. Notice that it's being generated with an ID of ct103_menuPanel. If you are following the same steps on your computer, you might find that ID is different on your system and the reason is because this content is generated by the Header element. That is, the custom control that I'm using in my page. And if I go back to my source code in SuppressingElements.aspx and I'll press Alt+Shift+Enter to go to full screen, I'll see that my use of the Header control right here doesn't have an ID attribute because I haven't applied an ID. ASP.NET applies one for me and if I can't predict what that id is going to be, then I can't apply its Cascading Style Sheet rules to it appropriately.
So the first part of getting ready to suppress this entire header is to give it an ID. I'll put in an ID element and I'll set it to a value of myHeader. Now, I'll save the changes and I'll run the page again. And once again, I'll View Source on the page, press Ctrl+F, search for home and now I see that the div tag id is my myHeader_menuPanel. This is an id that will always be the same. So now I'm going to select that ID in my View Source editor and copy it to the clipboard, because I'm going to use that ID in a Cascading Style Sheet rule.
Now I'll close the browsers and return to Visual Web Developer and get out of full screen. Now I'll go to the printstyles.css file and I'll open that code up in full screen and I'm going to add a new selector into my Cascading Style Sheet file. This is going to be an ID selector. I will put on the pound sign and then paste in the ID of my div tag that's being generated when the .NET page is being rendered. Cascading Style Sheet ID selectors apply to only a single element. You prefix the selector name with the pound sign just like you use a dot for a Cascading Style Sheet class, but unlike a class which can apply to multiple elements, ID selectors are designed to apply to only one, then I'll put in the pair of braces and I'll add the following properties.
First of all, Visibility, which I'll set to a value of hidden. This means that when I print the document, the menu won't appear and I'm also going to shrink the menu down to a tiny size like this. I'll put in the height of 0 pixels and a width of 0 pixels. Now this technique won't work on all browsers. I'll show you that on Internet Explorer the panel size won't actually change, but then I'll show you on Firefox that it does and then go back to SuppressingElements.aspx.
In this file's begin state, it already has the links to the multiple style sheets. Styles.css for rendering on the screen and printstyles.css for rendering on the printer. I'll run the page and you will see that when you render the page on the screen that the menu is intact and still visible and then I'll look at the same page using Print Preview. I'll right-click on the page and select Print Preview and expand the width of the page and you will see that the menu is gone and it's only gone when you actually print the document. Now on Internet Explorer, what you are seeing is that the visibility element does fine, but the width and height of the elements are still the same. This extra vertical space in the page above the title is reserved for that menu even though it's not visible.
But now I'll close Print Preview and I'll go into Internet Explorer's address bar and I'll copy the current URL to the clipboard. Then I'll open up Firefox and I'll paste that URL into Firefox and you will see that the page looks pretty much the same on the screen as it did in the Internet Explorer. But then in Firefox I'll go to the menu and select File > Print Preview and you will see that in Firefox, the height and width attributes do work, setting the height to 0 and the width to 0 pixels each means that the element is completely gone from the printed document.
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JVP Statement on Selective Divestment
Jewish Voice for Peace Statement on Selective DivestmentAt JVP, we fully support efforts to divest from companies that profit from Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. This includes American companies like Caterpillar who profit from the wholesale destruction of Palestinian homes and orchards. We are not advocating divestment from Israel. We absolutely reject the accusation that general divestment or boycott campaigns are inherently anti-Semitic. The Israeli government is a government like any other, and condemning human rights abuse as many of its own citizens do quite vigorously, is in no way the same as attacking the Jewish people. Further, it is crucial not only to criticize the immoral and illegal acts of the Israeli and U.S. government, but to back up that criticism with action. When governments engage in oppressive policies, pressure from outside is required to bring about positive change. Putting economic pressure on U.S. companies has been and will be a successful grassroots organizing strategy that brings that pressure to bear. As the movement to divest from Israel's occupation grows, we hope that the Israeli government will decide that there is nothing to be gained from sustaining the oppression of four million Palestinians, who live without equal protection under the law. We hope that this movement makes clear also to American representatives in government that American citizens will no longer fund the oppression of Palestinians, and by extension the destruction of Israeli civil society, through our taxes.
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