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Outdoors Report - August 22, 2012
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Fishing was decent last week. Some of the action was off during the day but during the morning or evenings it picks up.
Potomac River
Aqualand (301-259-0572) had plenty of customers both on the beach and renting boats last week. The croaker are biting and the white perch are biting. Catfish are also fairly consistent customers. Some small rockfish are around in large schools but finding a keeper is tough.
Snakeheads are still biting. Best action is in the tidal creeks nearer the headwaters. Try weedless topwater or plastics for them.
Rollins Seafood (540-663-3597) in King George reported big croaker in the river. They are after shrimp. Crabs picked up White perch are also beautiful sized. Catfish are ever present in the creek.
Rappahannock River
Bass are reportedly biting very well on outgoing tide near structure. Topwater early in the AM and late PM is a good bet. Plastics at the mouth of tidal tribs also is bringing them to the boat. Some nice bream are biting under overhanging trees.
Catfish are taking cut bait. The fresher the better! Gar are still in the river.
Upriver the water levels are low. However, deep holes are good for large smallies. Log jams are great for Rockbass and sunfish. Live bait or tube baits are good for both species.
Ponds are giving up nice bass and sunfish. Hoppers and crickets are good for the sunfish. Fish near lily pads for the best bream bite.
Motts Run Reservoir (540-786-8989) reported an uptick in fishing. Some nice bass were caught around the Beaverhut, the Island and the berm. Plastics during the day and topwater at low light is doing the job. Catfish action is great around the whole reservoir. The night fishing event was great. Several anglers had limits of 20 fish. One stringer was over 50 pounds. Stink baits and chicken liver are the best deal there. Now is the time to really enjoy the reservoir with kids getting back the school and a few cooler days coming on.
Captain Ryan Rogers (804-580-0245) reported good bay fishing for bluefish and Spanish mackerel. Our source also has been hitting some really big drum. If you want a fish of a lifetime try the red drum. They are catch and release over 26 inches and under 18 but a blast to catch and get a picture with. If you want to book a trip with Capt. Ryan he does have some dates open in August and September for some of the best variety of the summer right now.
CBAV Rappahanock River Restocking Fund
1. Ocotber 20 Fund raiser at Freericksburg Fairgrounds
Pig roast/food and refreshments 2 - 6 p.m.
Music by "Borrowed Time.
Children under 12 admitted free.
Moon walk and casting contest. Silent auction, 50/50 raffle and $20 per person. Contact Bruce Lee at (40) 226-2047
2. Potomac River Bass tournament, September 8. Tournament director, Mike Nelms. Call 540-295-1738.30% of entry fee will be donated to CBAV.


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If your soft mod has the most recent version of shop channel (v21), yes. that install is an optional step in chapter 2 of this guide.
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I have purchased a wii that is currently 4.3u and the latest store update. Is this guide still up to date for my wii? Also should I follow the downgrade to 4.1 portion of this guide?
Also how do i include the most recent gxloader was with this. I am up to chapter 3
Thanks in advance.
Look at the "last edited" date and revision info. Not too promising, those mad comprehension skills (LOL). Use the USB Loader GX that's included please (stability still to be determined on latest build of GX). Downgrading by following that section TO THE LETTER will give you options for certain kinds (not all) of brick in terms of recovery --- so yes.
Do I install the 30 wads from the modpack before downgrading to 4.1, also when i downgrade to 4.1 do I format the sd card first or do I need to keep the data from modpack on the sd card?
What does the guide say?
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Ok, I went through and completed all steps in the guide last night. I had a backup of wii sports resort and it plays however it hard freezes randomly. I have to power off the wii by holding the power button. It freezes for example at the end of a bowling match, or in the middle of a table tennis match, or at the mii selection screen. Any suggestions?
Also, I downgraded to 4.1u Will I be able to play PAL region games from the usbloader? Or do I have to do anything special to make them work?
Thank you for all of your help. The guide was very straight foward and made total sense once I started.
It could be a bad rip. Does the original disk have any issues? And your USB loader can play out-of-region games, just make sure you have it set to force your region (in your case, NTSC-U).Originally Posted by aciovacco
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Board of Directors
SMSC's Board of Directors are all volunteers who are working hard to allow the children of SMSC to play the best soccer that can be provided. If anyone should ask you who they should contact within SMSC concerning a particular issue, please heed the following. Please also help educate our coaches and parents about this "chain of command." Adhering to this set-up assists in more efficient and productive responses. Contacting the correct offiicial first will get the information needed or problem solved in the most timely manner possible:
- All complaints and information in connection with complaints involving potential or alleged violations of the Code of Ethics, are to be forwarded in writing to SMSC President and the First Vice-President who chairs the Disciplinary Committee.
- All information and questions related to referees are to be forwarded to the Head Referee.
- Queries about the recreational program (e.g., scheduling) are to be sent to the Vice-President responsible for DIII.
- Questions about the select program (FC United) are to be sent to the Vice-President responsible for DI.
- Questions about sponsorships of any kind and signage should be directed to the VP Of Marketing.
- Questions regarding money should be directed to the Treasurer.
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Cerussite is a lead ore whose name derives from the Latin word cerussa, meaning white lead. Since the 5th Century BC, the synthesized form of cerusite, lead carbonate, has been used as pigment in paintings. Today, cerussite is highly valued by collectors because of the stone's brilliant sparkle, which comes from its high lead content. Collectors also value the stone's complex, twinned crystals. Cerussite can range in color from white to gray, green, and black, but it is usually colorless. Cerussite has a beautiful adamantine, diamond-like luster and can be transparent to translucent. It is a brittle and soft stone, rating only a 3 to 3.5 on the hardness scale. Because of its fragility, it must be handled with care. Cerussite is very difficult to cut and as a result, faceted cerussite gems are highly valued, however the softness of the gem makes it impossible to have any value as a gemstone. It is usually cut only for collectors only.
Sometimes cerussite is confused with diamond and other colorless gems, however its most distinguishing quality, its high density, makes it easy to distinguish the stone upon further investigation. Cerussite has very intricately twinned structures. There are three types of shapes cerusite can have; chevron shapes are the ones found most, reticulated crystals are the most complex, and cyclic crystals create six pointed stars. Some of the most valued cerussite can be up to 2 feet tall, and is found in Tsumeb, in northern Namibia. These crystals tend to be clear, transparent, and colorless, and are the most valuable form of cerussite. These are usually found around lead ores. Cerussite is of secondary origin, found in the oxidized zone of lead veins. It is found in association with many other minerals including anglesite, galena, smithsonite, promorphite and sphalerite. Non-colorless cerusite derives some of its color from the minerals with which it is associated. For example, a cerussite sample rich in galena will appear gray, the color of galena, while one rich in malachite will appear green, the color of malachite.
Cerussite stones suitable for cutting are found in Vicentin, Italy, Rhine, in Alsace, northeast France, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, in southern Germany, and Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany; the Sierra de las Encinillas, Chihuahua, in north central Mexico; Jacala, Hidalgo, in southern Mexico; and Mibladen, Khenifra, in central Morocco. Many different types of cerusite can also be found in various locations around Austria, Australia, Czechoslovakia, the United States, Germany, Scotland, and in Italy, including Sardinia.
Cerussite is very helpful for stubborn people. It teaches the importance of short-term compromise and helps us adjust to situations where our inner resistance holds us back. Cerussite also teaches us how to be tactful in many different situations and helps us concentrate on our goals. It aids us in understanding why we are on this earth, what our tasks are, and what gifts we have that we can help the world with.


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On Veterans Day we honor the men and women who served in our armed forces. It is a celebration to honor those brave patriots willing to serve and sacrifice for the good of our country. Established by an Act of Congress in 1938, the holiday was originally called Armistice Day and honored those that served in WWI. In 1954, Congress amended the Act and replaced Armistice with Veterans, as the U.S. had served in WWI, WWII and the Korean War. Today, it honors those that have served in all wars.
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By tully | "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully October 17, 2005 at 9:31AM
Neil Jordan's latest offering, like a freshly blended smoothie of THE CRYING GAME and THE BUTCHER BOY, is quite tasty indeed. Cillian Murphy is one of those fellows that make me think I might not be 100% hetero after all. Looks aside, his committed performance lifts the film to a higher plane and provides it with some actual emotion. There was an overall "movie" gloss that kept me from being genuinely affected, however. But with a soundtrack like the one that Jordan has assembled, it's hard not to be engaged throughout. And the film's celebration of gleeful individualism in the face of brutal adversity only makes it that much more worthwhile. (Note: for all you Wombles fans out there, this one's a must-see!)
Shinya Tsukamoto is a weird fuckin' dude. I walked into this press screening with the second hangover I've had since August 15, 2004, when my body told me that if I didn't stop getting shitsmashed all the time, then it was going to end our relationship once and for all. Needless to say, being reintroduced to that throbbing, unpleasant feeling while watching this film was like trying to withdraw while watching REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. About fifteen minutes into the film, I almost had a full-on claustrophobia attack. Which was not cool. But I conquered that urge and calmed down. Unfortunately, by that point Shinya had met up with some chick and I couldn't really grasp what was going on. By the end, I felt like my mom watching "The Red Room" scene at the end of the TWIN PEAKS pilot. Say huh???
I'll give Jean-Paul Civeyrac credit. Homeboy can create a mood like the best of 'em. And the last shot is truly breathtaking. But I felt too detached from THROUGH THE FOREST from the very beginning to be sincerely affected by that ending. In theory, I love a film that's comprised of only ten extended shots (looking forward to NINE LIVES for that reason alone), but here I was too aware of the camera the entire time. Still, it's an interesting experiment, like CONTEMPT meets BLUE meets GHOST or some shit. At only 65 minutes, I doubt it'll be getting an even minor theatrical release, but if you're into sorta unsettling/kinda erotic French cinema, then this is the film for you!
I don't know why I want to keep this thing downgraded to "movie" and not "film" status, which is where it probably belongs. But I couldn't shake the SCREAM-ness of it out of my mind, when I should have been in THE PLAYER-ville. The opening shot is astoundingly great, working on about eight different levels, and the film itself is executed quite expertly. The performances are all solid, and the script deftly balances tension and humor and drama. But there was something a teensy bit glossy about the whole affair, which is why I can't up the ante to Four-Star Boulevard.
If THREE TIMES had ended after the first segment, I would have given it five stars. Set in 1965 and telling the tale of a handsome soldier who woos a beautiful pool hall employee, "A Time for Love" has what is certain to be my favorite opening shot of the year. But then came "A Time for Freedom," and Hou Hsiao Hsien's jumbo jet proceeded to skyrocket up, up, up, and awayyyy over my head. I'm not one of those plot/narrative types who needs to know what's going on at every single moment, but for some reason even the sheer visual spectacle of the gorgeous actors and stellar production design and lush cinematography wasn't enough to keep me engaged for segments two or three. But if I can be frankly honest here (I'm not getting paid for this fuckin' shit, after all), I had an appointment with The Prettiest Girl In The World awaiting me outside the theatre and my attention was understandably drawn to that. Needless to say, the film's pacing was cramping my style at that point. So forgive me, Hou Hsiao Hsien, but my own love story got in the way of two of yours.
Thank God someone found this lost silent film, for it's been a long while since I've had so much fun in a theatre! Aside from the fact that it took me like twenty minutes to dismiss the thought that Gloria Swanson looked like a dolled up tranny, everything about this Swanson/Rudolph Valentino vehicle was fantastic. Especially what is certain to go down as the most hapless attempted 'rescue' in the history of cinema. Perhaps it's a good thing they don't make them like this anymore, but I'll take BEYOND THE ROCKS over anything that's at the multiplex right now.
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OK – so here's pics of the red tail hawk that wanted to make my dog Murphy lunch yesterday. It all happened around 12 noon @ Maury High School. I was playing ball with Murphy when the hawk swooped in TWICE over Murphy…and wanted to snatch him up. OMG! I am never letting Murphy outside again. YIKES! Can I call Animal Control? To…"relocate" the hawk?!
Here's my love bug of a dog…MURPHY!!!
And here's the evil hawk that wanted to eat my MurphyPoo!!! EEK!


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These are kind of large and I do prefer taking only one multi-vitamin a day as opposed to taking three, but I would purchase these again as I like this company brand.
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Kerger: What happened to telephone calls?Written by Rick Kerger | | email@example.com
The apocryphal tale of the first telephone call is that Alexander Graham Bell knocked over a vial and hollered for his assistant to come to him, "Watson, come here. I need you." Whether true or not, the ensuing century saw improvement after improvement in the way calls could be made.
I remember the party line in my neighborhood in Ashtabula, Ohio. You had to wait until someone else was done talking before you could make a call. Of course, you also had the opportunity to listen in on what was being discussed!
Then the phone company found a way to change the phone from black to a variety of colors. Calling cards were created to make long distance calling easier and then, miracle of miracles, they developed the cellphone, a device that would allow you to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
And yet as things have developed, these devices would be better called "cell tablets" because fewer and fewer people are using them to make phone calls. Let us skip over for now the fact that spellcheck often changes a text message into a far more humorous comment than was intended, or that texting has doomed our nation to be one of misspellers.
We just don't talk anymore. I am told there are many who consider it rude to call unless you have sent a text alerting the person to the fact that the call is coming. And there are advantages to texting. Giving directions and phone numbers is more precise. It is often quicker to review a text than to listen to a voicemail.
But it is less personal than a call. It is hard to tell the emotion behind a text, while that is generally pretty easily determined during a phone call. The dialogue that occurs during a telephone conversation is quicker than the one in which texts are exchanged. And you connect as two human beings, rather than two computers.
And to end on a cautionary note, however distracting it may be to talk on a cellphone while driving, texting is universally a bad idea while going 65 mph! But texting is here to stay, and apparently to grow and grow.
Rick Kerger is a trial lawyer at Kerger & Hartman LLC in Toledo. Contact him at (419) 255-5990.
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You stopped and stared
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You opened up and loved her
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But the smile was filled with pain, hurt and shame
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Suge Knight is bugging all the way out after Tupac's Coachella appearence. Technically, we don't know for sure he's watched the hologram, but he's either smoking some killer kush or he's a little coo coo. TMZ reports dropped by 93.5 today in LA to chat with radio hosts Tatoo and Cee Cee and addressed the long standing rumor that he had something to do with Pac's murder. Suge wasn't having that, at all, saying, "I got a 45 bullet in my head, into my skull by grabbing Tupac pulling him down." If you say so, Mr. Knight. The interview goes all the way left when he gets the heat off him by suggesting, wait for it…Tupac is really alive! Boy, that's some good kush he's smoking on 4/20.
Suge claims everyone knows what really happened to Pac. He names Biggie and Puffy right before he explains, "The hit was already paid for to kill Tupac." Then he switches gears and implies people are focusing on the wrong thing.
"Maybe the question is, Pac's not really dead. Pac's somewhere else. I mean it's the truth if you really look at it," he says while cackling with laughter. "Did you see Tupac dead," one of the hosts asked. "Nobody seen Tupac dead. The person who supposedly cremated Tupac, his mother wanted it done quickly, this guy got about 3 million dollars personally from me, cash, and next thing I know I never heard from the guy or seen him again. He retired and left."
Those are some heavy allegations. Fifteen years later, yes, we miss Pac. But concocting conspiracy theories on his whereabouts doesn't bring him back. Where is this guy's publicist? Security!
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Planning your Lawn Sprinkler System
Before we start your sprinkler system design we'll need to take a couple of readings from your outdoor spigot.
1. Water Pressure (PSI)
Optimum performance of your Lawn Belt sprinklers is based on 40-60 psi (pounds per square inch). If you are operating a water pressure between 30-40 psi special adjustments can be made (see #3 below).
Use a pressure gauge (available in our store or locally for about $8) This will give you the most accurate reading at your spigot.
Optionally you can call your local water company and ask them for the PSI at your meter.
Pressure gauge at the spigot
If attaching a gauge make sure all water sources both inside and outside the house are turned off. Then simply attach the gauge to the spigot and open the faucet fully. For a more accurate reading test two or three times during the time you'll be watering.
2. Check Your Water Flow (GPM)
Suggested GPM for your Lawn Belt sprinkler system is 8 GPM (gallons per minute).
Can you fill a bucket in 8-9 seconds?
Here's a quick and easy method to checking your GPM. Get a gallon bucket and open your spigot all the way. If you can fill the bucket in less than 10 seconds you have enough GPM.
You can also apply the following formula:
60 / Seconds to fill 1 gallon
For example if it takes 7 seconds to fill a gallon then divided 60 by 7.. or 8.6 GPM. This number is then divided by the number of heads in the kit (3). The ending result should greater than 2 for each sprinkler head.
Try out our sprinkler calculator:
Please visit our new sprinkler calculator page to calculate your GPM with our sprinkler heads.
Note: Some newer spigots have a higher restriction on the flow - meaning that your GPM reading may be slightly lower than actual.
3. Find your sprinkler coverage
On average each standard sprinkler head will spray 15 - 20 feet in diameter (with the exception of our Orbit Rotor Head - see note below).
If you have good pressure (above 60 psi) your spray may exceed 20 feet. If your water pressure reading is a under 30 psi you may consider either try removing one head from your zone or if using rotors to reduce the precipitation rate (see more about nozzles).
Adjusting the spray distance of rotor
Note: If you need broader coverage you can add a different head such as our Orbit Rotor covering up to a 20 foot radius or spray distance on average.
Kits are designed to accommodate 3 heads per zone. Additional heads can be added if PSI reading is above 60 psi.
Recommended Heads Per Zone
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Choosing the right kit for your garden
(click to open up examples for each kit)
Sprinkler Kit: Perfect for either small or large lawns.
Garden Border: For planting strips or garden mounds.
Drip Kit: For gardens, shrubs or trees.
Custom Kit: Buy a kit without heads (add your own).
For more about our kits see: Garden layout examples
Connecting multiple zones to one spigot Additional zones or kits can always be added to your sprinkler design / layout. Up to 4 zones/kits can be attach to your spigot by using a 4 way distributor in the store.
Each zone is designed to be watered separately. Zones can be watered automatically by using a battery operated timer. Otherwise you can easily open or close each valve in the zone during its watering cycle.
4. Plot your sprinkler heads
The critical step in your sprinkler system design is to decide which areas you want to water, and what kind of spray patterns you'll need.
This slideshow will walk you through how to design a Lawn Belt System.
Use the grid sheet (below) and draw the outline of your garden area. Include any obstructions such as driveways and patios. Use a tape measure for accuracy, and make sure all the areas match the scale of the grid. (Our grid scale below is 1 square = 2 feet)
Properly positioning your sprinkler locations is an important step. As you design the layout, try to maximize the amount of Lawn Belt you have while keeping track of remaining Belt left as you establish each sprinkler location.
Start by drawing a line from the spigot to your first sprinkler head (radius circle) find the radius size with the chart above. Use the spray pattern template below for best results. Locate Sprinkler Heads After printing out both sheets, locate your spigots on the garden plot. As you place each circle and head location try to achieve the most uniform coverage. You can accomplish this by overlapping each circle into the next by a few feet (this will create an over spray so you won't get any dry spots in your lawn or garden).
When to use half or quarter rounds- To keep walkways or driveway areas from overspray use ether 1/4 or 1/2 rounds and place flat part of the spray against the edge of walkway. Where sharp corners occur use a 90 degree sprayer if possible.
Note: The Orbit Rotors & Softops heads are fully adjustable to any angle. The standard heads are fixed angles and spray 360 degrees. Sprayers also are available in different angles and be used with the Custom Kit.
5. Calculate the length of each zone
Next, connect the zones together by drawing a curved line starting from your spigot and then to the center of each spray pattern.
Remember to avoid any tight turns in your layout - use large sweeping turns instead when connecting one head to the next.
Then add the total distance of Lawn Belt from your spigot to the end of each zone.
If this distance is over 50 feet (the length of a kit) you will need to extend Lawn Belt using additional Lawn Belt plus a coupler kit available in our store.
Here's a printable grid sheet and spray pattern template to easily plot your sprinkler system design:
Grid sheet for your design.
Sprinkler spray patterns.
To use the printable grid sheet, simply cutout the spray patterns and design your sprinkler system for maximum coverage.
Acrobat reader is required (its free) Click on each image to view and print on 8 1/2" × 11" paper.
Download if you can't view the grid sheet
What do I need to do next?
Continue to Step 3 - Draw it up.
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Review of trackingdata in Google Analytics cookie
At the first meeting of IT Forum SIG (Special Interest Group) on Online Marketing. Marlene said that she could not understand why her traffic had increased on the source / media segment labeled (direct) / (none), representing unclassified traffic - what is this traffic and why is the traffic in Marlenes case increasing.
I have started to analyze the way Google Analytics track, and analyzed the way Google Analytics (GA) manages cookies, and I believe I have found an explanation for Marlenes problem which I will highlight here.
Google Analytics Cookie explanation
GA creates a number of cookies in your browser with varying expiration time.
- The information on unique user detection expire after 2 years (__utma).
- The information on tracking expire until 6 months (__utmz).
- The information about a current visit (visits) will expire after 30 minutes after the last pageview on the domain.
- The information on "Custom Tracking" will expire after 2 years (_utmv).
- The information on the "Website Optimizer" will expire after 2 years (__utmx).
A little more background
I now have an additional information about Marlenes problem. She believes that they have been changing the cookie expiration time and set it down to a day. My guess is that Marlene configuration has modified (__utmz) the tracking cookie into a expiration time for one day. And I can explain with a test I have done.
My analysis
This is how my cookie looked after I've deleted my cookies and gone directly into http://blogs.co3.dk/kevinsteffer/ by entering it into the addressbar
Expires: 30. juli 2010 11:11:19
I'm going to http://twitter.com/kevinsteffer/status/8163389926 and click on my link http://bit.ly/8VZEmq and I just take a look at my cookie again
Now it was last updated:
utmcsr = twitter | utmccn = Spreading | utmcmd = social
Expires: 30 July 2010 11:17:16
Now I close my browser and open it again and enter the address: http://blogs.co3.dk/kevinsteffer/
Now I am interested in what Google Analytics logs of data and not so much interested in my Cookie
Just for info so it can be seen here that it is not updated my cookie:
utmcsr = twitter | utmccn = Spreading | utmcmd = social
Expires: 30 July 2010 11:17:16
Here's what Google logs on to me:
utmcsr = twitter | utmccn = Spreading | utmcmd = social
So actually the wrong information - I did type the address in my browser - I have not clicked on any link with tracking code.
However, you must keep a little eye on other parts of the logging information:
This first line of information ends with .2 second information has .1.2 now I will see if I can get some of the information to give me a .3 by either clicking on a link on the site and create a pageview more maybe close browser and enter the address again, simply by generate a new visit.
By clicking on links nothing happens by logging information:
Now I close the browser and enter the address: http://blogs.co3.dk/kevinsteffer/
Now I got it up to .3
It does count something in one way or another, however, there is an information that does not change. The point here is that it counts the visit, but for same unique user.
Now I run a test where I have deleted my cookies and then gone into my blog with tracking code:
I closed my browser opened it again and went to my blog http://blogs.co3.dk/kevinsteffer/ without a tracking code 5 times and have now generated a total of 6 visits.
As can be seen here in GA I have with a single click on a link with tracking information and with 5 times of directly typing the address into the addressbar generated 6 visits all with the tracking information for my very first visit since my cookie was made at my first visit (or a new because the old cookie had expired).
What does it tell us then?
It shows that I can generate 6 visits with the same cookie information even though I actually typed th address into the adressbar 5 times.
I do not really know what to think about it, my first thought is that this is confusing.In my previous view of thought I have seen the above figures as 1 user has clicked onto my site via the link with the tracking "cookietest / direkte" 6 times, but it is not the case, the user has just done it at least 1 time and has the within last 6 months not clicked on any other link which gives him a new tracking cookie.
We could calculate how many users there are behind these 6 visits of the cookie information "cookietest / direkte", but I can not infer anything based on my test data. So I will just test and write about it some other time.
In Marlenes case where they have set the cookie lifetime down to one day, in GA this will result in having a lot of old users who have lost their tracking cookie and then via bookmarks or typing in addressbar no longer count in their initial tracking information, but now just as ( direct) / (none) traffic.
Am I totally wrong on this or what do you think, or should I call myself Cookie Nerd in the future?
Install Acquia Drupal via Microsoft Web Platform Installer
I selected Acquia Drupal in the Platform Installer and just leaned back and woops
And I tried to launch the site BLAHHHH 500 Internal Server Error
I'm on Windows 7 Profressional with IIS 7.5 and Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0
Error: PHP FastCGI can't find php executable
Now what?
After looking at the settings for FastCGI in IIS7 i found out that php-cgi.exe wasn't installed in folder C:\Program Files\PHP\ where settings pointed it to be!
I Downloaded PHP 5.2.12 (the version available via the Platform Installer) Installer version and within installation I could Change my PHP installation and simply added everything (all extensions, manual etc.), now you've got the php-cgi.exe in C:\Program Files\PHP\php-cgi.exe
I must admit installing ALL extension lead me to having all the extension enabled in php.ini. And I got errors when trying to run php.exe and disabled the extensions it said it was missing dlls for (e.g. OCI.dll, aspell-1.5.dll libcs.dll and more) just disable the extensions at the bottom of the php.ini file.
And know you're ready to go finish you install with configure your site: http://localhost/acquia-drupal/install.php
Happy Drupalling!
Linq, Dataset, Recordset performance result
I've for a while now been wondering why I often run into bad performance when using LINQ to access my SQL Server database. So I decided to hunt down the beast and see if I come up with something.
In this first test I haven't found the beast but I still found some interesting results that I want to share. The result confirms my experience of not using a Dataset to hold data, simply because in most cases it'll be to time consuming an approach using the SqlDataAdapter Fill method to load a Dataset and here you can see why.
My test is simply to read out 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 rows from a simple table and then measure how long it takes to the data out in the three different ways: With LINQ, as a Dataset and as a Recordset from the SQL Server.
The Recordset is twice as fast for small database executions
When working with small amount LINQ isn't as fast as the Recordset, but in my case it's now noticeable in a single execution. But when you have to run a lot of small jobs against the database you should keep in mind that the Recordset will do the job twice as fast.
Dataset should be used where many of the same data and used in variety.
When you have to count the number of rows fetched, pray to that you didn't use the Dataset method. What tares the method down is that it has to load all data with all the properties into the Dataset, just so you can call the Count property on the Rows inside a table on the Dataset object. It just takes way too long time.
With 10,000 rows both LINQ and Recordset is twice as fast as the Dataset
When I increase the rows in the table with factor of 10 to 10,000 rows that test times are rising, which is fair enough because the database sends 10 times more data, but the times are somehow surprising me anyway. The LINQ method rises with a factor 4.5, the Dataset method with a factor of 10 and the Recordset method climes with a factor of 6.5.
With 100,000 rows LINQ begins to catch up with the Recordset
When I further increase the rows in the table with a factor 10 to 100,000 rows I would expect about the same factors, but now they rises even further. The LINQ method rises with a factor 8.7, the Dataset with a factor 9 and the Recordset with a factor 9.5.
Download the Visual Studio 2008 Project
Test system
Hardware: Laptop HP Elitebook, 3GB RAM, 2,53GHz Intel Core Duo, 32bit
Software: Windows 7 32bit, SQL Server Express 2009, Visual Studio 2008 Professional Developer Web Server
Test scenario
I have separated my test into 4 scenarios and each scenario is run 10 times with the same method to get an average value of the time consumption for my conclusion.
LINQ measure method
private void DoLinqTest() { DateTime dtLinqStart = DateTime.Now; using ( DB.dbDataContext db = new DB.dbDataContext() ) { // Execution code } DateTime dtLinqEnd = DateTime.Now; lblLinqTime.Text = ( dtLinqEnd - dtLinqStart ).ToString(); }
Dataset measure method
private void DoDataSetTest() { DateTime dtDsStart = DateTime.Now; using ( SqlConnection dbCon = new SqlConnection( ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[ "dbConnectionString" ].ConnectionString ) ) { using ( SqlDataAdapter sqlAdap = new SqlDataAdapter( "SELECT * FROM item", dbCon ) ) { DataSet ds = new DataSet(); sqlAdap.Fill( ds ); // Executing code } } DateTime dtDsEnd = DateTime.Now; lblDsTime.Text = ( dtDsEnd - dtDsStart ).ToString(); }
Recordset measure method
private void DoRecordSetTest() { DateTime dtRsStart = DateTime.Now; using ( SqlConnection dbCon = new SqlConnection( ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[ "dbConnectionString" ].ConnectionString ) ) { dbCon.Open(); using ( SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand( "SELECT * FROM item", dbCon ) ) { using ( SqlDataReader rs = sqlCmd.ExecuteReader() ) { // Executing code } } } DateTime dtRsEnd = DateTime.Now; lblRsTime.Text = ( dtRsEnd - dtRsStart ).ToString(); }
1. Scenario
A test which seen in Testresult Sheet: 1000 List to get out a 1000 database rows as objects of type:
public class item { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public string Description { get; set; } public DateTime Date { get; set; } public item() { } }
Executing LINQ code:
List<item> objItems = ( from itm in db.items select new item { Id = itm.id, Name = itm.name, Description = itm.description, Date = itm.date.Value } ).ToList();
Executing Dataset code:
List<item> items = new List<item>(); DataRow[] drs = ds.Tables[ 0 ].Select(); for ( int i = 0; i < drs.Length; i++ ) { object[] dbFields = drs[ i ].ItemArray; item itm = new item(); itm.Id = ( int )dbFields[ 0 ]; itm.Name = dbFields[ 1 ].ToString(); itm.Description = dbFields[ 2 ].ToString(); itm.Date = ( DateTime )dbFields[ 3 ]; items.Add( itm ); }
Executing Recordset code:
List<item> items = new List<item>(); while ( rs.Read() ) { item itm = new item(); itm.Id = rs.GetInt32( 0 ); itm.Name = rs.GetString( 1 ); itm.Description = rs.GetString( 2 ); itm.Date = rs.GetDateTime( 3 ); items.Add( itm ); }
2. Scenario
A test as seen in Testresult sheet: 1000 Count to get out the amount of rows fetched on a database table with a 1,000 rows.
Executing LINQ code:
int count = ( from itm in db.items select new item { Id = itm.id, Name = itm.name, Description = itm.description, Date = itm.date.Value } ).Count();
Executing Dataset code:
int count = ds.Tables[ 0 ].Rows.Count;
Executing Recordset code:
int count = 0; while ( rs.Read() ) { count++; }
3. Scenario
A test as seen in Testresult sheet: 10000 List with the same Executing code like the 1. Scenario, but this time with having 10,000 database rows to get out.
4. Scenario
A test as seen in Testresult sheet: 100000 List with the same Executing code like the 1. Scenario, but this time with having 100,000 database rows to get out.
Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – ScottGu's Blog
YES! With VS 2010 the Add Reference dialog starts on the Projects tab instead of the .NET tabs which always has taken a considerable amount of time to load, very annoying when you want to browse the filesystem for a dll file to reference.
Great improvement Scott!
Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu's Blog
Best Practice Visual Studio with SVN, VCS and SCM
In my research on what others have of opinions and experience with subversion (SVN) or source control management (SCM) I have collected some good links of various kind – slide shows, red book and just experiences or ideas.
My focus on my research was dealing with Web development and specially ASP.NET development with Visual Studio along with third party CMS software.
The major pain is Visual Studio, when you open up your solution and don't touch anything your "Solution.suo" file gets modified and with SVN you have a modified state of your project folder and you need to take action either commit the change or revert the file.
My conclusion on ASP.NET development with Visual Studio is
Add the following to your ignore list:
- Solution\Project\bin
- Solution\Project\obj
- Solution\Solution.suo (hidden file)
Have your repository layout like this:
- Project
- branches
- tags
- trunk
Use the trunk for your "main-line"-development. With "main-line" I think of primary development that always stable and never has checked-in code that doesn't build.
Use your branches for creating testing, experiments and development of larger features that should not break the trunk, but needs to be committed often for backup and history of file changes. Keep your branch in sync with the trunk, remember to regularly merge changes from trunk into your branch, this prevents you from "drifting" to far away from the trunk and that makes it much easier to merge your branch back into the trunk when time comes for that.
Use your tags for creating snapshots of your trunk or branch that goes into releases and is thought of as test solutions or the LIVE beasts that hits the production servers.
If you have questions, suggestions I'd very much like to hear from you and your experience with the subject – thanks in advance.
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The day I ran with Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto until Monday afternoon, although he still has ten days in office before he must vacate the premise unless the court hears his appeal, I was struck by how woefully unprepared he was. He was wearing all cotton: sweatpants, sweatshirt, socks, and had his hood pulled up over his head as he sweat profusely. At 300 pounds, Rob Ford needs to take precautions as a runner. But that was never his personality. And now he's about to become Toronto's ex-mayor, and he's not running any more, either.
Rob Ford's been one of the most divisive mayor's in Toronto's history, elected by the suburbs, hated in the city, he's alienated immigrants and homosexuals, as well as cyclists and the press. On Monday afternoon, after an apparent conflict of interest charge for seeking donations for the high school football team he coaches on government letterhead, the mayor was finally sent packing. It was an ignoble day for an elected official.
I keep thinking about our run. When you go out for a run, or when you launch a business, or when you take a new job, you have to be adequately prepared or you're hopeless. The mayor was not only wearing the wrong clothes, but he'd set up an impossible goal for himself. He wanted to lose 10 pounds a month, 50 by the summer, and 100 in a year. The way you get to the marathon, like the way you get to profitability, or a raise, or a higher office, is through small, manageable, achievable goals — not by shooting for the moon with an impossible timeline.
I knew his run was going to end badly. I didn't know he'd be run out of office, as well.
In his defence, Mayor Ford has claimed that he didn't realize his case was a conflict of interest. Soliciting $3,150 in Canadian dollars from lobbyists and then voting against the integrity commission when they asked him to pay it back, didn't seem like that big a deal. He wasn't pocketing any money, and he went on to say that he simply hadn't read the statute.
That he didn't know he'd done anything wrong.
But that ties into his bigger problem, and why he quit running just one month after our jog: you can't barge out of the gate and hope to reach the finish line on sheer chutzpah. Steve Jobs had a plan. Mark Zuckerberg had a strategy. And Bill Gates did his homework. You don't have to be Jack Welch to draw up a realistic end line, and thinking about Rob Ford — who was breathing hard on that wintry morning, his face beet red, his determination poring down his cheek — I keep focussing on all that wasted effort: in business, and in running, it's not how hard you work. In fact, running a marathon is about the conservation of energy. Work less hard, work more smart: hang around for a little bit longer. And win.
The mayor of Toronto was consistent in both his hobbies and his governing: bull-headed, aggressive, poorly prepared but determined as an ox — until his short-sightedness finally caused him to come undone. In Toronto, the city is abuzz with talk of who will be our next mayor. If I have an opportunity to run with whoever the candidate is, I'll encourage them to set a reasonable goal, prepare adequately, and look ahead.
You can't finish a race, just like you can't govern a city or run a company, on sheer determination. Learn about your industry. It's hard to win at anything when you don't know the rules of the race.


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Right-wing media figures spent the months leading up to Jeb Bush's decision to actively explore running for president criticizing him as the "dumbest Bush," a "base pander," and a candidate who presents problems for the base.
Rushing to defend a recent Time magazine article critical of teacher tenure, several conservative media outlets neglected to discuss what is at the core of a major backlash against the article: due process.
Time's November 3 cover story, titled "The War on Teacher Tenure" and promoted on the cover as "Rotten Apples", has spurred significant backlash, particularly among teachers. The Huffington Post noted on October 27 that a petition from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) "asking Time to apologize for the cover had reached 72,000 signatures." In response to the uproar, Time published reactions to its piece from various individuals, including Rep. George Miller (D-CA), AFT President Randi Weingarten and National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen Garcia.
Various conservative media outlets covered the Time controversy by defending the article and cover, attacking teachers unions, and mischaracterizing teacher tenure. The common thread in all of this coverage, however, was a lack of discussion about due process, or why due process policies like tenure exist.
On the October 30 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski hosted Time's Nancy Gibbs to discuss the backlash. The segment did not include a discussion or even a mention of tenure or due process, though Scarborough claimed, "It's absolutely silly. There are rotten apples. There are horrible teachers. There are horrible lawyers. There are horrible journalists. There are horrible TV hosts. In every field you can go, there are rotten apples in that field."
Fox News' Outnumbered on October 27 also neglected to discuss due process during a discussion of the Time piece, though co-host Andrea Tantaros stated that teachers unions are "destroying America" while co-host Jedediah Bila claimed:
BILA: And unfortunately, the reality is, is that a lot of bad teachers stay. They have tenure.& You cannot get rid of them. They want no accountability, and they are bringing schools down in every city across this country.
Conservative media praised the failed theory of trickle-down economics in response to Hillary Clinton's remark that the middle class, not tax cuts for corporations, spurs economic growth, a position backed by economists.
Right-wing media are warning President Obama that taking executive action on the immigration crisis after Congress failed to pass immigration reform may spur talk of impeachment. But legal experts have confirmed that the president has broad authority to issue executive orders on immigration.
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Fox News' reporting on Hillary Clinton's upcoming keynote address at a University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation fundraiser falsely suggested that university funds will be taken from students to pay for Clinton's fee, which will be donated to charity. But the university's spokespeople have made clear that private donations -- not university funds -- are paying for Clinton to speak.
Fox's newest show, Outnumbered, features a rotating cast of four female hosts, one male host, and a litany of sexist tropes.
The program premiered April 28 with female co-hosts Jedediah Bila, Harris Faulkner, Sandra Smith, Kimberly Guilfoyle and their male co-host of the day Tucker Carlson, who was honored with the Twitter hashtag #ONELUCKYGUY and described by the women as "a good enough sport to join us on day one."
When Fox announced the new show, Amanda Marcotte noted its premise: "The man will be 'outnumbered,' meaning that even though Outnumbered is supposedly a female-centric show, the male point of view is still so central that it gives the show its title." The Washington Post's Alyssa Rosenberg similarly predicted that the program would find its "heat" by highlighting opposition between men and women, essentially parodying "what conservatives often accuse feminists of wanting to do to men: overwhelm them and shout them down as a sort of rhetorical reparations for years in a subordinate position."
These predictions proved accurate. In fact, Outnumbered's set even placed the lone man at the center, surrounded on a couch by the female hosts wearing Fox's famous short skirts. The hosts kicked off the show by indulging the parody that men and women are profoundly opposed to each other, with Carlson joking at the very beginning that he was "in a defensive crouch already," because living with four women had given him experience he needed to "submit" and handle this "outnumbered" position:
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After dedicating his opening segment to attacking the alleged dependency culture of younger generations, Fox News' Eric Bolling waded into an error-filled tirade against food assistance.
On the August 8 edition of Fox News' Your World, Bolling, who was filling in for host Neil Cavuto, was joined for a panel discussion of "food stamps" (officially known as the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP). Fox contributors Jedediah Bila and Julie Roginsky debated the merits of the food assistance program, with Bila often making wildly inaccurate claims in her attempt to smear recipients and chastise alleged waste.
Bolling and Bila parroted numerous demonstrably false claims over the course of just a few minutes. First, Bolling falsely claimed that the budget for food assistance is $80-100 billion. In fact, the SNAP budget for fiscal year 2012 was $74.6 billion.
The cost of the program has increased significantly since the onset of a catastrophic recession in December 2007, but official data from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service reveal that the growth is due to increased participation driven by economic factors. From the Department of Agriculture:
SNAP participants declined steadily through 2000 but began to rise in 2001 and increased each year through 2011, except for a slight dip in 2007. The increase was substantial from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2011. Average monthly participation increased from 17.2 million individuals in fiscal year 2000 to 40.3 million in fiscal year 2010, and to 44.7 million in fiscal year 2011. Fluctuations in the number of SNAP participants in the last 16 years have broadly tracked major economic indicators
When challenged to do as others have and take the SNAP Challenge for a week, Bolling deflected the subject. Previously, Fox News' Andrea Tantaros referred to the prospect of living on just over $130 each month as a diet plan.
It is not out of the ordinary for right-wing media figures to bemoan the growth of SNAP registers as some form of vote buying, dependency culture, or expansionist nanny state. Food assistance is a common and easy target for the right-wing media, which need not provide evidence to support baseless claims. Bolling in particular is not shy about attacking those in dire need of adequate nutrition.
However, the Fox host leapt into "trutherism" territory during the following exchange:
BILA: We wasted $2.2 billion just in waste, in fraud
ROGINSKY: According to their auditor, 1 percent fraud.
BOLLING: One percent? Julie, you and I go way back, we're very good friends, right? Where in the world is there 1 percent waste and fraud?
When challenged to provide a statistic to back up his claim that food stamps are wrought with corruption and waste, with recipients using assistance to buy alcohol and drugs, Bolling contended the following:
BOLLING: I'm going to have to push back on your "one percent".... I'll throw something out there. I'll bet you it's closer to 50 percent than 1 percent.
According to the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, the fraud and waste rate is roughly 1 percent. Bolling's claim is not just wrong, it is wrong by a factor of 50, or nearly 5,000 percent.
Today, Fox News' America's Newsroom hosted a segment highlighting Rush Limbaugh's latest attack on Sandra Fluke. The theory behind the attack was so hard to believe that two of the three panelists, including a former spokeswoman for the House Republican Conference, called it "ridiculous" and "utterly absurd."
On Tuesday's edition of his radio show, Limbaugh returned to attacking Fluke, the Georgetown law student whom he infamously described as a "slut" and "prostitute," this time for supposedly "coordinating" with President Obama to scare students about their student loans.
Fluke responded to Limbaugh's attack later that night on MSNBC's The Last Word, pointing out the importance of affordable student loans and contradicting the notion that she is coordinating with Obama on the issue of student loans.
During a panel discussion of Limbaugh's attack on America's Newsroom today, panelists Gretchen Hamel and Judy Miller agreed that Limbaugh's theory that Fluke and Obama are coordinating is completely bogus. Hamel, a former spokeswoman for the House Republican Conference, said that Fluke's tweet "was a message being tweeted out by a number of people." Hamel also said: "I think this is just a coincidence. It's the White House having a simple message that is resonating." Miller, a Fox News contributor, called Limbaugh's theory "ridiculous" and said that "all it does is call attention to his previous faux pas."
Fox is reinforcing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attacks on the Obama administration by parroting his misleading claim that since President Obama took office, "92.3 percent of the job losses ... has been women who've lost those jobs." In fact, this indicator is meaningless in understanding how Obama's policies have impacted working women as it ignores several important factors, including when the recession began and the fact that more women are in the workforce today than in January 2008.
On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade and guest Jedediah Bila used the crisis in Libya to push for increased domestic oil drilling, when, in fact, this would not substantially affect gas and oil prices in the near future. This follows a pattern of Fox seizing on issues to advocate for more domestic drilling.


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I read with deep regret the article written by Mike Gellaty concerning Dr. Margo J. Hein-Muniz and the loss of her lawsuit with Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Muniz is a cutting-edge physician with all the most up-to-date and important information. She also is competent and has a caring heart.
I am one of her grateful patients. She treated me for a life-long condition that others neither cared about, nor offered help for. She changed my life for the better forever. I am sure she has made as deep an impact on the lives of others.
I am amazed at the lack of recognition from the rest of the physicians community in Aiken for a truly dedicated and talented practitioner. I hope that more of her many patients will offer her the praise and encouragement she deserves.
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The Highland County Sheriff's Office reported that James A. Blaine, 61, now of San Antonio, Texas, was arrested Tuesday on a third-degree felony theft charge tied to a case involving the Good Shepherd Church in Madison Township.
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) - One of the enduring moments of every Olympic closing ceremony is the passing of the baton from the current host city to the next one.
In this photo by Associated Press photographer Ivan Sekretev, IOC President Thomas Bach and Sochi mayor Anatoly Pakhomov delight as Pyeongchang mayor Lee Seok-rai waves the Olympic flag to symbolize the South Korean city's preparation for the 2018 Winter Games.
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Helping students understand not just what happened on 9/11, but why
Students today were just kids or hadn't even been born yet when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania a decade ago, killing nearly 3,000 people.
So when teachers talk about the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, they're discussing something most of their students barely remember. Yet like everyone else, those students have felt the impacts every time they've gone to the airport or seen someone they know go off to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan.
"They know about it and what happened, but they don't know exactly why it happened," said Todd Creason, who teaches history at Oak Park High School. "It's important because it's shaped this decade. It's changed our people. It shows our character, who we are."
How teachers are approaching the 10-year anniversary will depend on what grade they teach. Elementary teachers will make sure their students feel safe Monday, knowing they might have seen upsetting images on television the day before or heard people talking about airplanes going into buildings.
"We don't want to give them so many details that we scare them, but we want to give them enough that they understand they're safe," said Wendy Block, who teaches a fourth/fifth-grade combination class at Flory Academy in Moorpark. "We want to give them a chance to talk because maybe they heard something at home. ... I kind of think it helps the teachers, too."
High school teachers will review what happened that day, what led up to the attacks and what resulted. Many also will go beyond the event itself and talk about tolerance, or differentiating between fact and opinion.
Victor Anderson, a history and government teacher at Oak Park High and a former lawyer, will have his students write down five things they know about 9/11 — as he always does right around the anniversary. Then they'll discuss whether what they wrote is fact or opinion.
"There are a lot of opinions out there and a lot of misinformation," Anderson said.
Beyond that, schools are honoring the anniversary with events ranging from moments of silence to PowerPoint presentations.
Last week, Flory invited a local firefighter, police officer and paramedic to an assembly celebrating heroes.
On Monday, Oak Park High will have a memorial ceremony at the flagpole, next to a granite memorial honoring Brian Wolverton, a graduate killed in Afghanistan in 2009.
Pacifica High School in Oxnard will broadcast a PowerPoint presentation, including video and music, put together last year by teacher Michael Hoffman.
"The full impact isn't there unless you see what happened from beginning to end," said Hoffman, a Vietnam veteran who teaches computer applications and flies a flag outside his classroom every day.
Schools are more focused on 9/11 this year because of the 10th anniversary, but high school teachers routinely teach about the event in 11th-grade U.S. history classes. Whether the history books they use include 9/11 depends on when districts last bought textbooks.
As classes started at Pacifica last week, students said they knew the gist of what happened on 9/11 but not much more.
"My teacher I had last year didn't talk that much about it," said senior Karla Ballines, 16. "But I'd like to learn more about it."
Ramon Rodriguez, who teaches Advanced Placement U.S. history at Pacifica, sees gaps in what kids know every year when he discusses the attacks. Students talk about the planes hitting the twin towers but often don't remember they also hit the Pentagon and crashed in Pennsylvania, he said.
So he goes back in history, taking the time to explain what led to the attacks, including a discussion of religious differences.
"Students just don't know because they were so young," Rodriguez said. "It's much like trying to get them to understand the effects of Pearl Harbor."
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Silicon Valley's interns enjoy perk-filled summer
Mountain View, Calif. • Sitting in a kitchen stocked with free food, a handful of 20-something Google summer interns weigh their favorite perks, but where to begin? With bikes, buses, massages, swimming pools, dance classes, nap pods, parties and access to their tech heroes, it's a very long list.
"Unlimited sparkling water?" someone says.
In the end, however, the budding Googlers are most excited about the work.
"The project I'm working on is super high impact, and I'm looking for ways to make my mark," says Rita DeRaedt, 20, studying visual communication technology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She admitted to being a bit star-struck after she was assigned to a team headed by a designer she's long admired.
With summer's arrival comes an influx of thousands of Silicon Valley interns. Well paid and perked, young up-and-comers from around the world who successfully navigate the competitive application process are assigned big time responsibility at firms such as Google, Facebook, Dropbox and Twitter.
Silicon Valley tech firms pay their interns more than any other sector in the U.S., according to a Top 25 list of 2014 intern pay by online career website Glassdoor.
Palantir Technologies, a Palo Alto-based cybersecurity firm, topped the list with $7,012 average monthly base pay. Also on the list: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, eBay, Google and Apple, all of which pay more than $5,000 a month, or $60,000 annually if these were full time jobs.
And that's not counting the perks, which at Facebook even include housing in this high rent region.
Executives hope that a fun and stimulating summer will motivate them to come back after graduation to launch careers. It's money well spent in a field fighting for talent, says Keck Graduate Institute professor Joel West in Claremont, who hired interns when he ran his own software company, and now helps place students at internships.
"When you're an employer, interns are a win-win, because you get relatively cheap labor and you get a first look at talented and ambitious people," he says. "You get first dibs on them."
Indeed, many of the internships turn into careers.
Max Schireson, CEO of database startup MongoDB, with offices in Palo Alto and New York, says they nurture former interns, 35 this summer selected from a pool of 3,000, when they return to their respective schools — primarily Brown, MIT, Stanford and Princeton.
"We try to keep in touch with them both to keep that relationship warm but also because they can help us in identifying our next crop," Schireson says.
Schireson says that while there's solid pay, with food, drink and candy around the office, there are limits. Ultimately, he says, "we want people attracted mostly by the workplace challenges."
Typically, interns are assigned to collaborative teams working on specific projects; computer science student might be writing software code to make failed passcode attempts erase data, while a human resources student might be creating online learning modules for new hires.
Serial entrepreneur Jon Bischke, currently CEO of San Francisco-based Entelo, a tech recruiter, said interns better arrive ready to hustle.
"Companies in Silicon Valley are growing faster than literally any companies anywhere since the beginning of time," he said. "The energy is palpable and for people who appreciate fast-paced environments, you won't find anything faster than what's going on in Silicon Valley right now."
But there is an effort to keep hours reasonable, and many said East Coast financial sector interns work longer hours for less pay.


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I have not been to Disneyland in quite a long time and will be going twice this year, because you just have to make up all the lost time right !
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Also i have seen Fantasmic! at WDW but is the show better here at Disneyland and how does it work??? Does it have its own stage area or shown in the Rivers of America?
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And with over 5 weeks of work, we are working right up to the last moment to be ready for it...and we did not think we had a lot to do..We are finally on dock at Village Cay and I can hear the tap tap of the shrouds being tightened above my head..you can read the saga of that fun story yesterday on my personal blog here if you are interested...
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The fridge is full, the freezer will not fit another item in it, and the boat passes for clean I believe. I understand this wild wet weather is supposed to be ending by Monday..That will be nice!
I came home yesterday to see THIS on the davits..apparently we are upgrading for our SWIM Vacation Charter!
And we have a brand new hard mooring ball for our mooring with our name painted on it and everything..I wonder how long it will take the Peter Island ferry to run it over!!!!
Just waiting for the rest of the Swim Vacation crew/guides to come in now, Lisa and i have made sure we left them LOTS of work to do..after all they will be fresh and buoyant.... And the next time you hear from me I will be charter blogging!
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TEDTalks: Nicholas Negroponte
Aug 02, 2006
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I like the initiative but I think it could really be sold without the arrogance. Here's Negroponte again: "This is not something that you have to test, the days of pilot projects are over. When people say, 'Well we'd like to do three or four thousand in our country to see if it works,' screw you, go to the back of the line and someone else will do it and then when you figure out that this works then you can join as well." Laughter and applause from the audience at Monterey, California.
Screw you? Is this the face of online learning we want to present to less wealthy nations? That we know best (after all, we tested it in Maine) and it works perfectly? That you will take our belevolence and you will shut up about any doubts or hesitations? I would want to know what the hidden costs of the system are - what kind of broadband infrastructure do you need, what kind of learner supports do you need? And I would say, don't you tell me 'screw you', if that's your attitude it will cause more harm than good. As it has so many times in the past. Total: 177
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Re: arrogance: couldn't agree more. But Negroponte is, I believe, representative of our arrogance in general. We always seem to think that developing nations can learn from us, but not vice-versa. If you look at, say, the way cell phones are used in Africa, or the way some countries have given people free access to internet cafes for the purpose of finding jobs, we have much to learn from them. Terry Freedman www.ictineducation.org [Comment] [Permalink]
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India Rejects One Laptop Per Child http://tinyurl.com/f4mjh The Indian Ministry of Education dismissed the Negroponte One Laptop Per Child scheme - which aims to provide kids in developing countries with a simple $100 machine - as 'pedagogically suspect'. Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee said: "We cannot visualise a situation for decades when we can go beyond the pilot stage. We need classrooms and teachers more urgently than fancy tools." Banerjee said if money were available it would be better spent on existing education plans. Nigeria has paid for one million of the $100 a piece laptops. The Register, 26 July 2006 From the EdNA Communicator newsletter. http://www.lists.edna.edu.au/lists/lists/viewarchive?list=thecommunicator [Comment] [Permalink]
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I recently listened to Negroponte at the NECC conference in San Diego. He is certainly a man on a mission and at times (like the `screw you' outburst) the $100 Laptop EVANGELIST crosses over the fine line to the ZEALOT (especially if overtired and over-jetlagged). The fine line explained...(With a little help from dictionary.reference.com) `Evangelist ...a "publisher of glad tidings;" a missionary preacher...having it as their special function to carry the gospel (in this case of the $100 laptop and virtues of the Internet) to places where it was previously unknown. Zealot One who is zealous, especially excessively so. A fanatically committed person.' We learnt to talk, walk and all those other things (that didn't require a 'school') from the modelled behaviour of our parents or siblings. Mimicking their behaviours was the most common technique associated with a lot of trial and error to get those behaviours down pat. We didn't make them up. We didn't learn other un-modelled behaviours until we were much older, in fact any of those were `trials' we regarded as `errors' usually because they resulted in no reward (clapping father, excited and proud mother, food supply, cuddles etc). So if the only logic for the laptop is to let kids teach themselves, then, at least in early childhood (where all those other things were learnt without the aid of `school') there might need to be some role models of behaviours that result in appropriate rewards. Tapping into readymade learning events (courses, classes, projects, reference material) is not the same as learning to talk and walk. Using the $100 laptop for exciting, innovative, collaborative learning is not a mere monkey-see-monkey-do act as there aren't necessarily any grown-up monkeys with any expertise to mimic. My thoughts at the end of his talk in San Diego were that surrounding the $100 laptop program there needs to be the "Friends of the $100 Laptop" program with interested and willing teachers, scientists, artists, musicians, ...etc...who would be the extended family of the recipients of the devices who could provide some of that modelling, wisdom and expertise. I also thought that there should have been a donation envelope on my chair to write a cheque immediately to buy at least one device for a child somewhere. Imagine if the 12000 delegates at that conference and at every other huge US conference bought one laptop each time they went to a conference. There would soon be many $100 laptops pre-paid for so that the third world wouldn't have to come up with the money for a bunch of them. Lindy McKeown Australia lindy AT gil.com.au [Comment] [Permalink]
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While I agree with your sentiment I would like to add a alternative view. Negroponte knows from his personal experience in this field that this works. He can only get it to work when you can make enough devices. So the point he tried to make (imho) is that (1) there is no need for anymore field tests, (2) that time has passed, they should have done these tests already long ago. (3) Asking for more field tests now comes down to stalling and/or undermining his project, not helping. He needs to get a commitment for 7-10 million computers, any country which is not yet ready can not help him with this. That's what I got from his talk: He knows he can't convince people who are not ready, and so he is not wasting his time on trying to convince them. In time the practical succes of his project will convince them. [Comment] [Permalink]
Negroponte arrogance
If a laptop in every child's hand is so important, and would do so much good, why isn't it being marketed to the developed nations. The US has so much money to spend on education any state could buy a million laptops and not even notice it in the budget. US public schools spend an average of $7500 per pupil per year. If OLPC were the panacea that Negroponte believes it to be, why aren't the states buying them? I don't understand trying to market this device to the people least likely to be able to afford them. Why force them to choose between infrastructure and laptops? I think Negroponte is going completely non-private with this because he feels there is no private demand for it. Why won't he sell it at Best Buy? Because then the market would get to say how useful they are, instead of Negroponte alone. How can you hawk a laptop to third world nations when there are millions of them languishing on shelves in stores? As for field tests, there is always need for more field tests. To say that it works, and no further testing is required, is cocky and arrogant, and stupid. Negroponte doesn't want tests because they might not be favorable to him. [Comment] [Permalink]
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You don´t need to field test the Internet, it has been around for more than 10 years, we all know the potential. Off course Negroponte will not sell the laptops unless they work and connect to the Internet, and that includes all the promizes about low energy consumption, effective wifi mesh, fast and responsive Linux OS, educational software framework, and a perfect waterproof and dustproof design. Negroponte and his MIT mates have field tested laptops for children for 20 years, they know it works, every pedagogue agrees that a laptop with Internet is good for a child. He says Screw You to India who is corrupt by Intel and Microsoft, because those companies invest billions in their IT sector and they have pledge help for more billions, including Intel+s World Ahead program for their "cheap" intel based Windows XP computers to be given out to Indians in 2007 or sold for 400 dollars a piece. The truth is simply that if India says no, they will say yes as soon as 5 other countries have started the program and proven it is fantastic for the children. Indian top government simply answered to Intel and Microsoft evil request to make defavorable press releases about OLPC which Intel and Microsoft hopes would help them try to slow down the AMD Linux cheap laptop project. Some state governors in USA want to buy those laptops for all of their students, but its got to be in the millions of units, for Maine or whatever other state is in question because as Negroponte says: - cuts down cost of components - Makes the cheap laptop possible at all, cause screen manufacturer, flash, wifi mesh manufacturers and other component manufacturers of the different important and innovative parts of the OLPC simply cannot agree to suit the hardware for OLPC if there is not significant amount of orders, significant enough to change their strategy towards what the OLPC needs to become reality. It´s about priorities of cheap and energy efficient hardware, completely different than the component manufacturers current strategies. [Comment] [Permalink]
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the latest anonymous poster is me Charbax, my website is http://video-blog.eu with keynotes from Negroponte and info from Intel Eduwise and CE events. [Comment] [Permalink]
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By Doug firstname.lastname@example.com Thursday, April 17 will go down as a histortic day for the Eagle's Landing Christian Academy athletic program. At 11 a.m. in the school's media center, five athletes, including Jake Davies (baseball-Georgia Tech), Caroline Rutledge (soccer-Georgia Southern), Daniel Black (track and field-Georgia) Travis Rogers (track and field-Gardner Webb) and Cole Bostwick (football-Jacksonville State ) all signed with Division I schools. Athletic Director Scott Queen says this shows how successful Eagle's Landing Christian has be come in athletics. "It's awesome for our school," he said. "Next year, we hope to have two of these tables, instead of just one." For Davies, it's a culmination of lots of hard work. "I felt the most comfortable at Georgia Tech," Davies said. "I had a few good offers, but I Iike the coaches and the team, and their good program helped. They are doing really well this year, and hopefully, I can bring something to the program. ELCA coach Doug Campbell is glad to have Davies as part of the team as the squad tries to win its second state title in three years. "He knows every bit of the game," Campbell said. "You know he is going to show up to play." Black would like nothing more than to close out his high school career with state titles in the 200 and 400-meters, but he feels good about his decision to sign with the Bulldogs. "It was a tough decision," he said. "It came down to Georgia and Liberty, and I liked both schools, but I grew up in North Georgia, and felt right at home there. Liberty has a beautiful campus too, but I feel I made the right decision." Rutledge has plenty of experience playing soccer at the club level. She helped start the girls team at ELCA and the Lady Chargers have turned into a soccer power in just two years. "It was new, so we didn't really know what to expect," she said of playing high school college. "Now, we are really excited, so hopefully, we can go a long way at state." Co-coaches Lori Shultis and Pam Tate are glad to see Rutledge's work pay off. "She has had a long career and played select ball," Shultis said. "She's a great player and a great leader." Both ELCA soccer coaches are convinced others will benefit from seeing Rutledge move on to the next level. "We have a sophomore who is already getting looks from colleges." Tate said. "There are sevel others who should sign scholarships too." Travis Rodgers is set to throw the shot put at Gardner-Webb. Rogers found out about Gardner-Webb by doing a little on-line research. "I knew I wanted to compete in the shot put in college, and I just applied to different schools,and they were one of the schools that called me back. I felt really comfortable about the school." Queen is glad his two senior track participants are headed to the sport on the Division I Ievel. "I have taught Daniel since he was in elementary school, and I always knew he was going to be special," said Queen who also coaches track. "I knew we could get Travis somewhere, but it's great to see him going to Gardner-Webb. He has always competed well, and he is going to be successful there." Cole Bostwick is headed to Jacksonville State where he will play center for the Gamecocks. Bostwick was part of the transition when the Chargers moved from GISA to GHSA. He has also played for three different coaches. Still, he enjoyed the experience, especially the night ELCA defeated state-ranked Breman on the road. "It's been incredible," he said. "There have been a lot of changes, but it's been fun."
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