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The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C) held Cyber Storm III (CS III), a comprehensive and dynamic cybersecurity exercise from September 27 through October 1, 2010. Cyber Storm is DHS' capstone national-level exercise. This biennial event represents the Nation's most extensive cybersecurity exercise of its kind and is part of an ongoing effort to assess cybersecurity preparedness; examine incident response processes, procedures, and information sharing mechanisms; and identify areas for improvement -- absent the consequences of an actual incident.
This national-level exercise included participation from eight Cabinet-level departments, 13 states, 12 international partners, and 60 private sector companies and coordination bodies. Together, these entities participated in the design, execution, and post-exercise analysis of the largest, most comprehensive government-led, full-scale cyber exercise to date.
CS III's objectives were designed to assess the Nation's response to cyber incidents. The assessment has informed our preparedness and resiliency planning, thereby strengthening the Nation's capacity to respond to a cyber incident. The exercise's specific objectives were to:
- Identify and exercise the processes, procedures, relationships, and mechanisms that address a cyber incident;
- Examine the role of DHS and its evolving National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP);
- Assess information sharing issues;
- Examine coordination and decision-making mechanisms; and
- Practically apply elements of ongoing cyber initiatives, such as the Cyberspace Policy Review and findings from past exercises.
Exercise Mechanics
Cyber Storm III was a distributed exercise that allowed players around the world to participate from their office locations. The exercise control center was located at a DHS facility in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The scenario progressed as players received "injects" via e-mail, phone, fax, in person, and the Web. Exercise play simulated adverse effects through which the participants executed their cyber crisis response systems, policies, and procedures.
The exercise gives the cyber incident response community a safe venue to coordinate practice plans, response mechanisms, and recovery tasks. Most importantly, the exercise provided participants with the opportunity to learn about their strengths and any areas that might need improvement. Participants are incorporating those observations into operations in order to helping reduce cyber risks posed to the Nation.
To create the CS III scenario, CS&C organized a Scenario Team, leveraging the engagement and technical expertise of participating operators. In collaboration, DHS and exercise participants developed CS III's core scenario conditions and advised further scenario customization efforts throughout the planning process. The Scenario Team contributed to coordinated scenario development, creating a forum to vet, discuss, and achieve consensus on core scenario conditions to be applied to participating organizations.
The use of core scenario conditions as the basis for all targeted attacks ensured the exercise represented a comprehensive national and internationally Significant Cyber Incident. In developing these specifics, team members incorporated CS III goals and objectives, previous exercise findings, and previous observations into scenario design, while still adhering to the exercise construct.
During CS III, players responded to a series of simulated, targeted attacks, resulting from compromises to the Domain Name System (DNS) and the Internet chain of trust (i.e., validity of certificates and Certificate Authorities [CAs]). Because of the reliance on DNS and the chain of trust for a wide range of Internet functions, transactions, and communications, the adversary challenged players' ability to operate in a trusted environment, complete trusted transactions, and support critical functions. In addition, the adversary used these compromises to carry out a variety of targeted attacks against private-sector companies, select critical infrastructure sectors, public-sector enterprises, and international counterparts. The scenario construct ensured all exercise players felt the effects the core scenario created.
Cyber Storm III included participation from eight Cabinet-level departments, 13 states, 12 international partners, and 60 private-sector companies and coordination bodies. Participation focused on the information technology (IT), communications, energy (electric), chemical, and transportation critical infrastructure sectors and incorporated various levels of play from other critical infrastructure sectors. In addition, CS III included the participation of states, localities, and coordination bodies, such as Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), and international governments to examine and strengthen collective cyber preparedness and response capabilities. During the exercise, the participant set included 1,725 CS III–specific system users.
Cyber Storm III addressed the Training and Exercise requirements found in Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8 "National Preparedness." Coordinated under DHS' Cyber Exercise Program (CEP), it supports the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace by exercising the national cybersecurity response. It also exercised the interim version of the National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) and operations at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC).
Applying Lessons Learned
The Department is applying the CS III observations to further strengthen the Nation's cybersecurity preparedness and response mechanisms. To capture all relevant information in the Final Report, DHS is working in close partnership with public and private sector stakeholders. In addition to the CS III Final Report, many participants developed their own internal summary and observation reports.
Final Report
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Council upbraids mayor
The Fairview Town Council proposed removing the mayor's authority over town employees after a discussion about the mayor's Facebook page that contains criticism about the town.
Last week, council members stated they would hold a closed session to discuss a Facebook page created by Mayor Elizabeth Long, which she named "Fairview, Union County, NC." According to the state's open meetings law, topics about elected officials must be discussed in open session.
Resident Beth Rabb spoke during public comments. She said any discussion about Long should be done in open session in accordance with state law.
"Right, if you're making comments about me, not personnel, I am an elected official just like you are, so if you're commenting about me or my Facebook page it has to be in open session," Long said.
"It's not about no Facebook page, it's about personnel," Councilman Arnold Price said.
Price said last week he requested a closed session to talk about Long's Facebook page. On his request, he wrote "personal" which Fairview Land Use Administrator Ed Humphries assumed meant "personnel." Price later told the Enquirer-Journal he wrote "personal" because it was not a subject that affected residents and should not be "gossiped" about.
Rabb also said that there are certain personnel issues that state law requires elected bodies to discuss in open meetings.
"Madam Mayor, I'm sure our attorney will let us know if we're violating any state statutes," Councilman Bradley Purser said.
Long turned to Town Attorney Joe McCollum.
"Do you have any comment?" Long asked him, but he did not acknowledge the question. Long asked him again.
"No, I'll wait to hear what it's about," McCollum said, trailing off. "Advise you."
During the later council comment, Price said he is a 51-year Fairview resident and loved the community. Anyone who assumes the council would do something to hurt the town is "dead wrong," he said.
"But you're made to believe that this is happening by comment on this Facebook page," Price said. "Some comments are posted from people who don't even live in Fairview."
Long wants to use the page to discuss "personal problems" in public, he said.
"Which by law is supposed to be brought up in closed session to be discussed," Price said. "This is unethical and may be against the law."
He asked if Fairvew residents wanted to pay legal fees fighting a lawsuit against the town. He also asked Fairview residents to make up their own minds, not to let "a couple of families" tell them who should be on the town council.
"Now this Facebook account in the town's name was started in January," Price said. "And it was started without a discussion or approval of this council."
Long responded by saying the page is named "Fairview, Union County, NC" to distinguish it from several other communities of the same name. The page is for posting town events, deaths of well-known residents and anything newsworthy. She noted that anyone could start a page bearing Fairview's name without the council's permission. She noted other pages like the Indian Trail Watchdog and Waxhaw Watertower, both which regularly posts criticisms of their respective town governments.
"Did they get approval from those councils to use the name?" Price asked.
"Facebook is outside the council's approval," Long said.
"You don't know, do you?" Price said.
Price said she posted "slanderous comments" about the council and Humphries, that the page was not for the town's benefit, was a platform for the mayor's political agenda to "become public knowledge." Any social media account in the town's name needs to be approved by the council first, Price said. Such a page was "a prime example of slander, discrimination and harassment toward the council and employees of Fairview," he said.
Price then read a legal definition of harassment and said it is against the law.
"This town does not need to be subjected as a town to this matter and shown on Facebook," Price said. "I'm willing to work with the mayor and the council, but I do not take lightly the criticism on the internet."
When he finished, Long asked McCollum to comment.
"On what?" McCollum asked.
Long said she has freedom of speech. Price said everyone in the room did too. Long said anyone else there can start a Facebook page, even him. Price replied that he does not gossip on the internet.
McCollum explained that freedom of speech meant council members can criticize each other. If someone sued over "slander" posted on the page, the lawsuit would target the person who created the page, not the town.
Councilman Purser repeated his full confidence in McCollum warning the council of possible law violations. Purser stated that the "raise" they could gave to Humphries was to reimburse him for medical insurance.
Purser moved to make the website the official Fairview website, something that was established by McCollum earlier in the discussion. The motion stated that "any other social media created in the name of Fairview does not have the approval of the council."
The council has no copyright on Fairview's name and therefore cannot ban anyone from creating a page referencing the town, Long said. Purser's motion passed by unanimous vote.
During a short closed session, the audience and Long left the room. A few people remained outside the closed meeting room. Even with the door closed, voices from inside the meeting room were clearly heard dismissing topics that law required be discussed in open session.
In open session again, Humphries said he approached Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Clontz with the proposal that town staff will answer to the council. According to Fairview's charter, it is a mayor-council form of government where employees answer to the elected mayor instead of the council majority. Purser said Humphries could no longer be effective in his job while Long acted as his superior.
"It's just a very detrimental situation," Purser said. "The relationship, you know, the situation between...in the way I see it, the opinion the mayor has for you, Mr. Humphries. Whereas, on the other hand, it's obvious that the council supports you, but yet the mayor doesn't. It's just a very unfortunate situation."
It is," Humphries said. "Is is very stressful."
Humphries said he will work for the council and in return he liked the suggestion that members would "protect" him when he gets them information they request.
"But I can get hung out there, too, if I do something," Humphries said.
Such a change would require a revision of Fairview's charter, the organizational document that incorporated the town.
Clontz lamented his unsuccessful effort to keep peace between the mayor and council. He asked members to vote and not argue with Long in future meetings. But he also said more feedback from Fairview residents would help guide their decisions. Earlier, Price said he has never received a phone call or letter about a town issue in the two years on the council.
"We do need feedback from the community and we need feedback from the whole community," Clontz said. "Not eight people or ten people."
"And I'm glad you just said that," Purser said. "It's good that we have people who show up, it's good that we have people that speak, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're representing the opinions of the entire community."
Purser also pointed out that Long was elected by the people to the office of mayor, and deserves the council's respect for that reason.
"Respect is earned," Price said.


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At Freddy's Fritters Dog Bakery and Pet Boutique, they're getting ready for President Barack Obama to possibly make a pit stop here before he speaks to a crowd down the street.
"I'm very excited and a little nervous," said Jenn Gan, a groomer.
A phone call earlier this week signaled it could happen.
"Left her name and said she was calling from the President's Office and that she wanted to know what our shop was all about," said Gann.
Shop mascot "Sugar" was given the royal treatment in preparation.
"I did a little doggie facial on her today and little earrings for the President," she said. "She loves to be groomed. She loves to get pretty."
The Village of East Davenport is abuzz with news that the President might stop in at one of these shops.
Freddy's is hoping that First Dog, Bo, is the deciding factor.
"Be great if they brought Bo in. That'd be exciting."
They even prepared a basket of goodies for him.
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President Obama has a history of surprise stops in the Quad Cities.
Last June, he stopped at Ross' in Bettendorf, where he was served the specialty "magic mountain."
A couple of months later, he dropped in at Kernel Cody's Popcorn in LeClaire.
Freddy's hopes they're next.
"We're hoping that maybe we'll have an opportunity to get up close to them."


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Follywood could not make it, but Emmy Award winning film maker David Earnhardt DID! The movie that paints the disasterous truth that electronic voting is a death nell to democracy. Read every word and be afraid, be very afraid...
3 Million Uncounted Votes In 2006
More than 3 million votes were never counted in the 2006 election, 1 in every 4 ballots cast in Illinois. This is not just inefficiency in the system; a concerted Republican campaign assures that the provisional ballots, ballot errors and other reasons for the failure are overwhelmingly Democratic votes. This phenomenon explains about half of the reported 6 million vote gap between exit poll estimates and official counts.
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What Thursday's Democratic Iowa Debate Was Missing
Something made this final debate before Iowa's caucus boring. Hmm, what was it? Why was this neither clever nor entertaining?
Bush urged Congress to extend the program at its current funding level before lawmakers leave Washington for their holiday break.
Imagine A Campaign That Called For Slashing Military Spending By 75%
What if we had a candidate offering to really make change? A whole lot of change?
Crooked Timber
Every public shooting is an excuse for the gun lobby to push it's fantasy of a domestic war on terror.
What Does "National Security" Really Mean? Depends On Who You Talk To.
I hate to kick a dead horse but I don't believe the horse is really dead yet. Bush is still a dangerous man. The Republicans have learned nothing from his two nation-damaging tours in office. It appears that most of the Democrats have learned less.
The Weak, Spineless, Hapless, Gutless Ones
The Democrats, contrary to what Pelosi said, own this Iraq war now. They own the issue of torture. And they stand to lose in 2008 because they cannot stand up and take responsibility for these issues.
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The corporate media is making it easier for the Republican Religious Right base to pass extreme views off as mainstream. The media stars display their own ignorance in the process.
The Padilla Tapes
And what could be so important in the destroyed CIA tapes that are the object of current controversy, that despite the criticism which would certainly follow, they were destroyed anyway? Abu Zubaydah, a subject of the tapes, is none other than the foreign national whom Padilla's lawyers say was tortured into linking Padilla with Al Qaeda.
The mainstream press has all but ignored Al Gore's Nobel prize acceptance speech but it was, indeed, a call to arms, a call for global cooperation for an action plan to combat a global warming menace that will dramatically effect us all ~ and most certainly our children. Want more proof ? The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41�C/0.74�F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00�C/57.20�F.
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While there are some dark possibilities that can be envisioned for America's future, in the wake of this criminal Bushite regime, another scenario --not very satisfying but a lot less dark-- seems to me more likely. It's the "Muddle-Through" Scenario.
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The loss of big coral reefs would have a devastating effect on communities, many of which rely on fish and other marine life that shelter in the reefs. It would leave coastlines unprotected against storm surges and damage often-crucial income from tourism. Among the first victims of acidifying oceans will be Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest organic structure.
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A 44-36 vote in the New Jersey legislature to abolish executions in the state yesterday followed approval for the measure in the state senate on Monday
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The Department of Veterans Affairs needs to do more to find and treat returning soldiers who're at risk of killing themselves if the country is going to avert a rash of veterans' suicides, lawmakers and witnesses told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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"The way we pass stem-cell research, the way we get implemented a children's health care plan, the way we get higher fuel economy standards...is to have impeachment hearings," Wexler said. "Because that'll get the president's eye. That'll get the vice president's eye." (And I hope their ears.)
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CCSS: When Vocabulary Alone Isn't Enough
I teach in a dual language elementary class where students learn in a language that is not their first. Teaching language and literacy—while simultaneously teaching content knowledge—is my daily reality. I know that I need to incorporate listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing into every lesson.
A few years ago, while training middle school teachers on highly effective teaching strategies for Language Learners, I stated, "We are all literacy teachers, no matter what subject we teach." I could see surprise on some of the content teachers' faces when they considered that idea. Now, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are asking all teachers to be strategic in teaching academic vocabulary across all subject areas.
The way that I understand academic vocabulary, as the CCSS outline, is that there are words that cross subject boundaries and can be applied in a variety of contexts. In my teaching context, I am very intentional when planning an instructional unit and even a lesson, about how I will focus on such words. I use Isabel Beck's definitions of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 words to help me identify which vocabulary I will teach directly, for which terms students can infer meaning based on context clues, and which words the students and I will ignore. This video, featuring CCSS contributing author David Coleman, offers a deeper explanation of the three tiers.
When deciding which I'll teach, I take into consideration the levels of language acquisition represented in my class and which of the Tier 1, or basic, words are necessary for all students to understand in order to comprehend the main idea, or objective, of the lesson. Then, I identify the Tier 2 words that are necessary for students to process, discuss, or write about their ideas. (For instance, in order to write a text summary, students need to understand the word, "summary.") Finally, I consider any content-specific words that will be necessary for their understanding during a unit of study. I use a template, created by a National Board Certified Teacher, Isis Albert, to help me categorize the words and plan for how I will teach them.
For example, I recently led a lesson about making inferences. Not only did my students come to understand the definition of the word, but they were also able to identify where in their lives they were making inferences about the world around them.
As I continue to refine my skill at teaching content vocabulary, I've found at least one Success at the Core Teacher Development video very helpful. In Using a Warm-Up to Review Content, teacher Chris Blea illustrates techniques that support students in learning academic vocabulary necessary to learn science concepts and communicate their understanding. At the beginning of the lesson, Chris identifies not only the content objective for the day's lesson, but also the language objective in the form of focus vocabulary words. She then conducts a highly engaging warm up with the students using a fan car to demonstrate force. In their responses to the teacher's questions, students practice using the new science vocabulary as they communicate their understanding of concepts. To reinforce students' use of vocabulary, Chris encourages students' choral calling of vocabulary and uses gesturing, non-example, and repetition. Chris understands that students need repeated practice with terminology in order to "own" new vocabulary words.
As a classroom teacher and instructional coach, I'm so glad that there are high quality examples like this one that show effective teaching of academic vocabulary, which yields higher academic achievement for all students – especially for English Language Learners and struggling learners.
What strategies for teaching academic vocabulary have you found effective? Is teaching academic vocabulary in a content area class a new idea for you, or is it old hat?
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I still encounter these issues in my university writing and rhetoric classes. While college students are native visual and textual rhetoric users, they often miss opportunities to incorporate rhetorical vocabulary in written analyses. It seems some of these teaching strategies could be carried through into higher education.
You make a good point. Higher education can benefit from pedagogical improvement too. We have all had terrible college classes where professors did noting but lecture, test, repeat.
There has been much talk recently of increasing college dropout rates as more diverse populations of students enter college. Lessons were are learning now in K-12 can certainly benefit higher education.
All grade levels K-16 can do a better job of supporting students in building background knowledge and increasing students's foundation of academic vocabulary.
I think "regular" education classes have much to learn from dual language and ELL teachers. These teachers are certainly ahead of the curve in methods of increasing background knowledge and using that background knowledge to scaffold vocabulary building.
I have made an effort to teach academic vocabulary in my science classes when applicable. One thing I like to do with my students is to teach Latin and Greek roots of words that we encounter regularly. For many of my students who are native Spanish speakers or come from homes where Spanish is commonly spoken, they can see the connections between Latin and Spanish.
For example, I do this when teaching the word manipulate (which is both a science term and a form of general academic vocabulary). I explain that the Latin root of manipulate is "man-," which means "hand." I then connect this to the Spanish noun for hand, mano. After a quick discussion about how this reflects the meaning of manipulate, students usually remember this word.
Tyler, it sounds like your teaching of the root word in manipulate and pointing out the similarity to Spanish is highly effective with your population of students. I try to point out cognates, words that are similar in English and Spanish, as often as possible. I wonder, do you use a gesture that relates to "hand" when you teach the root word mano? I frequently use gesturing when teaching my students vocabulary and have them mimic the gestures anytime we encounter the words in class. This is a multimodal way of helping students retain new words. Thank you for your valuable comments!
You know, I do tend to gesture (hold up my hand and point to it) when I teach this but I don't know that I thought of it as a strategy. I just tend to talk with my hands a lot!
My current population of students is approximately 85% Latino and a large portion (maybe even a majority) of these kids come from homes where Spanish is spoken at least part of the time. I'm definitely on the lookout for more strategies to support my student population effectively!
Ironically, we just talked about cognates in our teacher professional development today!
Heather–in your district, have you found that the time you spend on vocabulary affects the performance of your ELL students? Do you all have data that suggests it helps to close the achievement gap? We are starting to really focus on that at my school and looking for every "magic bullet" we can find to slay that gap. Thanks for the excellent instructional reference.
A resounding YES to your question about whether time spent on developing academic vocabulary impacts student achievement. I have several anecdotal examples as well as evidence from classroom based and Benchmark assessments. One brief example- currently, one of the math standards for fourth grade states that students will find the median, mode, and range for a set of numbers. The 4th grade teachers taught our students an engaging song for each of the terms that included instructions on what to do for each math application. We sang the songs during our warm up everyday. Our students, a high poverty and ELL population, aced that portion of the test, while on other portions, they didn't do as well. I've seen this over and over with my students in all of the subject areas.
Heathe and Andrea,
I found this article relating to the importance of vocabulary. Here is the link:
I have watched this teacher development video many times, and am constantly amazed at the skill this teacher uses in reviewing the key vocabulary her students need to be successful in this science unit. Showing my teachers this video when we are working on vocabulary development lets them not just "see" but almost "feel" how to engage students in this earning. The video teacher is energetic, focused and draws her students (and her viewers) into the learning. A great "moment" in learning made accessible, and fun!
Heather, I just want to thank you for sharing classroom experiences through comments or videos. I am using Tier 1, Tier 2 and tier 3 in my daily lessons taking into account my students' language acquisition levels as well.Definately , I agree with you that we need to use basic words that are necessary for all our students to comprehend the objective of the lesson but teaching tier 2 and tier 3 is a challenge for our students. We as teachers need to be very intentional and stratigic, focusing more on teaching them.These two levels help our students to process the content through engaged group discussions or writing activities.I think Chris video was fantastic. It clearly explained how she integrated Content objective and language objective in a lesson.I learned from this video….The more they see, repeat and use the words, the more they will understand and think about it.
Absolutely! Repeated practice of vocabulary by using words in speaking or writing is essential for students to "own" the words. What tools do you use to strategically plan which tier 1, 2, and 3 words you'll teach?
I like to use the 4 square dictionary to teach Tier 1 words because they can use different domains. They can visualize it with a picture, they write the word and a sentence. Then, they read them to a partner or visaversa. I also use the CCD (Cognitive Content Dictionary)to teach Tier 2 and 3 words. Later , I incorporate those words in songs, chants, Input and narrative charts, so they can reapeat the words and apply them in different ways.
This is a very good example of how important is teaching academic terms to our students. This will help them to improve their reading scores and their understanding in reading texts books. This will also prepare them in their college carreer.
I have found that a good vocabulary plan as pointed to already is consistency, repetition, and exposure. My Book Nook was always filled with vocabulary rich no fiction books and the story time, grade curriculum, and library time was geared toward fantasy and fiction. Most students will end up reading, in the functional world, way more nonfiction so they need to understand these terms, especially how interdisciplinary science terms are with other genres and areas they currently excel in.
Interesting point, Jessica, about making sure there is a solid representation of various non-fiction books in the classroom library. Are there certain books from different publishers that you felt drew students to them more effectively? To which NF books do your students seem to gravitate most? Does it seem to depend more on their personal interests or on what they've been studying in the classroom?
I, too, believe vocabulary is very important, because ultimately UNDERSTANDING is very important. As a math teacher, I kept a huge dictionary at the front and back of my room (courtesy my school library). The first days of school students always thought that was "funny", a math teacher with a dictionary. But they was in constant use, a resource for understanding what a word meant, where it came from, and similar words. Finding all those "hooks" helped students make meaning rather than just memorize the definition. Communication – written and oral – is so important. Watch any of the teacher development videos and see how those teachers guide their students to understand and make meaning of their learning.
I love the idea of a math teacher with a dictionary in class. Thank you for pointing out that meaning making is the key and oral and written communication is essential for that to happen. So true!
I loved your idea of using backward planning to plan lessons. That's exactly what I heard at WABE this weekend from the keynote speakers. Looking ahead and addressing the students' needs beforehand is a powerful tool. I found the sheet from Isis very helpful as well. That is a wonderful tool that I will share with colleagues. I also like to plan vocabulary instruction according to the Tiers. Doing this also helps with planning.
Thanks for the unit template. You and Isis are amazing. We are lucky to have you at Evergreen:)
Heather, thanks for the article to remind us to intentionally plan for vocabulary teaching from all the tiers. In my setting, with so many children needing lots of practice in tier 1 vocabulary, I need to remember to to carefully plan to introduce the higher level words in ways the children can grasp.
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He was once the world's most expensive signing, has dazzled football fans in Brazil, Italy and Germany and has even teamed up with Kazu Miura at Verdy Kawasaki (today called Tokyo Verdy 1969). Now 31, Marcio Amoroso is ready to spearhead Sao Paulo's challenge for the club world crown.
"I'm really happy to be back where I began my career," said the striker who, as a teenager, was part of the Tokyo side that won championships in 1992 and 1993. "I hope to lend the experience I've gained abroad to my team-mates."
Like many Brazilian footballers, Amoroso's career has taken him far from home. Few, though, have achieved as much as the boy from Brasilia. When he was transferred from Udinese to Parma for 33.1 million dollars in 1999, Amoroso was at the peak of his powers. Devastating speed, wonderful technique and matchwinning goals, he had it all. For a time, Ronaldo was second in the pecking order in Brazil's forward line.
However a serious injury kept Amoroso out of the game and he could never quite rediscover the same magic in Italy. He did get back to winning ways though in Germany where his sheer class contributed to Borussia Dortmund's 2002 title success.
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A move back to Brazil was always on the cards and when Sao Paulo's star striker Grafite needed knee surgery, Amoroso stepped in and grabbed his chance with both hands. He debuted in the second leg of the Copa Libertadores semi-final against River Plate and immediately made his mark, scoring once in his side's 3-2 victory in Buenos Aires.
Amoroso had lived up to his billing as the man who would deliver the goals. He was again on target in the second leg of the final against Atlético Paranaense, scoring his side's opening goal in an emphatic 4-0 home victory after the first leg had ended 1-1. In doing so, he made a key contribution to Sao Paulo becoming the first Brazilian club to lift the Copa Libertadores, South America's premier club competition, on three occasions. The striker was voted man-of-the-match, becoming only the second Brazilian player, after Palmeiras' Marcos in 1999, to do so.
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Texas Studies in Literature and Language presents Spring 2009 edition
Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond (51.1, March 2009)
Posted: March 12, 2009
Texas Studies in Literature and Language announces the publication of a special issue, Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond 51.1 (March 2009), guest edited by Alan W. Friedman and Charles Rossman of the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin.
Samuel Beckett never made it to Austin, but a vast quantity of his manuscripts and many of his critics have made the journey. This special issue of TSLL is entitled Samuel Beckett in Austin and Beyond for four main reasons: most of its contributions were initially presented at the annual James Joyce Bloomsday conference that was held in Austin in June 2007; most of its contributors and its editors are faculty or graduate students at UT; many of the essays feature research based on the extraordinary Beckett holdings in UT's Harry Ransom Center; and it not only offers something of a retrospective on Joyce and Beckett but also, in the end, anticipates future Beckett studies.
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"I grew up in Tempe, Arizona, and when my dad offered my younger sister, Jan, and me the chance to go with him and our mother to Afghanistan, I was excited about the opportunity. I would spend my senior year in high school in some exotic country, not in ordinary Tempe… Of course, there were loads of cultural differences between Arizona and Afghanistan, but I had very interesting and entertaining experiences. People always seemed friendly and helpful. I never got into any real difficulties or scrapes, even though I was a fairly clueless teenager! Times were more gentle back then." – Peg Podlich (Pictured at right).
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Bandit's Roost (1888), by Jacob Riis, from "How the Other Half Lives." Bandit's Roost, at 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend), was the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of all New York City.
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The New York Public Library has shared an incredible gallery of over 9,000 photographs and illustrations of the Middle East from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. These include, books, albums and archival compilations.
Monuments of ancient Egypt and the Biblical world figured prominently in the early years of photography. French Academician François Arago (1786-1853) endorsed the new medium in 1839 claiming it would provide a labor-saving means "to copy the millions and millions of hieroglyphics which entirely cover the great monuments at Thebes, Memphis and Carnac, etc." Immediately artist-travelers took chemicals, cameras, and photographic plates of metal, and later glass into the regions around the southeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, to record the famous sights that had been known previously to Westerners only through the intervention of the artist's hand.
In addition to early photographic pioneers Du Camp, Salzmann, Robertson & Beato, and Frith, the collection includes work by image providers catering to tourist travelers in the last third of the 19th century, such as Arnoux, A. Beato, Bonfils, Lekegian, Sébah, and Zangaki. The selection offers resources for exploring Western impressions of the Middle East in that era through the lens of practitioners of the new medium of photography, and in turn through the expectations, preferences, and assumptions of its consumers.
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Head to one of the restaurants in the Café Manhattan family -- we're partial to the Uptown Café, a hole-in-the-wall in downtown Clayton -- and taste the appetizer that toasted ravioli longs to be. Though we risk blaspheming a St. Louis staple, toasted cannelloni gives you a lighter pocket for the meat, with no hard, gummy corners. Still, the fried ("toasted" being the polite word for "fried," as we know) hunk of cannelloni contains more meat than the average toasted rav and the combination of that meat, lighter breading and trapped air (which leavens the appetizer) is delightful, especially when you dip it in the marinara and, surprisingly, squeeze the provided lemon wedge over each bite.


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I decided to build my first sand box ever. I always wanted one, but there was no time or reason until now. Fortunately, hardware is ridiculously cheap these days compared to the past, so you can actually run full-blown Oracle Applications on your home PC without compromises.
I built a Dual Core box with 8G of RAM for an install of E-Business Suite R12. For OS I chose Oracle EL5U2, mainly because I'm used to the RH/OEL clones, and also because I expected it to be less painful than other distributions.
I started slowly, as time allowed, spending some time chasing various libraries and packages on the Net. Eventually it took me a week to realize how tedious it is to go the manual way. I got so frustrated by the dependencies that I gave up and purchased access to the ULN network.
Just to illustrate the type of struggle I went through, I found four distinct lists of required packages for 10g installation (in Oracle documentation and metalink combined). I'd recommend Note 421308.1 – Requirements For Installing Oracle10gR2 On RHEL/OEL 5 (x86_64), which summarizes the database part in a neat way. I also encourage you not to underestimate requirements of related Note 376183.1 – Defining a "default RPMs" installation of the RHEL OS.
Nevertheless, it's just way more easy to use the oracle-validated package, which will download all dependencies for you. Well, almost all.
The next step was to prepare the machine. The only tricky part (from the DBA point of view) is to setup a DNS server, but even that went well. There are plenty of nice howtos on the web — search for keyword "rndc".
Once I had all the required packages installed, users created, kernel parameters set, domain name resolution working, and Xvnc started, it was time to call a wizard.
Using rapidwiz is relatively easy. If you're familiar with standard EBS terminology, you will have no issues. The only new term is the "instance home", a good concept that allows you to put all applications logfiles and configuration files into one place. Point this location to where you want to have them.
The decisions rapidwiz will allow you to make are fewer than when installing a standalone database, so there's not much to say about installation itself.
The first problem came in the final stage of installation — starting the HTTP_server container failed. After checking the logfile I figured out that there was a library missing.
The library name was
libdb.so.2, and as I discovered on OTN forums, many more people had encountered this problem before. The library is in package called
(Don't be confused by "i386″ — you need this even for x64EL.)
It wouldn't install easily because of a conflict with another existing package, but I couldn't remove that other package because it's dependent on the
oracle-validated package.
A workaround that worked for me (and that you'll see once more before end of this post) is the following:
$ cat compat-db-4.1.25-9.i386.rpm | rpm2cpio | pax -r
This will unpack the RPM package, and then you can get
libdb.so.2 and copy it to
/usr/lib. Don't forget to make the symlink with the correct name.
Okay, now I was able to start apache . . .but unable to access forms. Clicking on a link that was supposed to launch forms just did nothing. Digging in the j2ee log directory (cleverly hidden at
$INST_TOP/logs/ora/10.1.3/j2ee/forms/forms_default_group_1/application.log ), I found the error:
08/09/25 20:46:11.875 formsweb: 10.1.3.0.0 Started 08/09/25 20:57:27.501 formsweb: ListenerServlet init() 08/09/25 20:57:28.631 formsweb: Forms session aborted: runtime process failed during startup with errors /d01/PVISII/tools/10.1.2/bin/frmweb: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 08/09/25 20:57:28.632 formsweb: Forms session exception stack trace: oracle.forms.engine.RunformException: Forms session failed during startup: no response from runtime process at oracle.forms.servlet.RunformProcess.connect(Unknown Source) at oracle.forms.servlet.RunformProcess.dataToRunform(Unknown Source) at oracle.forms.servlet.RunformSession.dataToRunform(Unknown Source) at oracle.forms.servlet.ListenerServlet.doPost(Unknown Source) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:763) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856) at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.0.0) ].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke (ServletRequestDispatcher.java:702)
Yet another library missing — this time it's
libXm.so.2. After searching the web, I found there seemed to be two packages containing it:
At the time of this writing there doesn't appear to be an EL5 version of openmotif21. The gnome-libs package had a number of other dependencies and I didn't want to spoil the system with an RHEL4 package, so once again I extracted only the library needed:
$ cat openmotif21-2.1.30-11.0.1.RHEL4.6.i386.rpm | rpm2cpio | pax -r
Then I copied the extracted library to
/usr/X11R6/lib/. Once I did this, forms came up and I could finally sleep well! If there's anything I missed in the install guide which could have prevented these errors please let me know, because I didn't read it.
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I faced the same errors, good solution!
How did you determine libXm.so.2 was in gnome-libs? I have looked at the files provided by that package a few different ways and am not seeing libXm.so.2 in gnome-libs-18.104.22.168.90-44…
Hi Britt,
that's a good catch. I looked at the file manifests and that library is not in gnome-libs packages. I was trying to recall how I arrived at that conclusion, but no luck.
Sorry for confusion and thanks for clarification. I guess openmotif21 is the way to go then.
I'm having problem with the forms loading on my desktop at home. I can login to app, but forms won't load. All the services start. I'm on Fedora 11, Firefox 3.5.3., EBS R12
java -version
java version "1.6.0_0″
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.6) (fedora-29.b16.fc11-i386)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)
update-alternatives –config java
There are 3 programs which provide 'java'.
Selection Command
*+ 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk/bin/java
2 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java
3 /usr/java/jre1.6.0_07/bin/java
Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:
When I look in R12 Java Console it says – Standard Edition 6 Version 6 Update 7 (Build 1.6.0_7-b06).
I ran yum for libXm.so.2 even though I don't have error in application log.
What can I look at to try and find error?
Thanks for this post and sharing your knowledge. I resolved my problem and it saved me a lot of time.
The funny thing is that the problems that you encountered are typical of any Oracle EBS installation being at home on a small PC to even a huge server with the backing of a major corporation.
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Hello, I have a similar problem, when I call the Forms from IE:
FRM-92101 – Forms session failed during startup: no reponse from runtime process
application.log says the same message.
OC4J~OC4J_BI_Forms~default_island~1 says:
error while loading shared libraries: libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
rpm -aq openmotif says:
All paths where is included the library libjvm.so, are alright.
Could you help me please?, I don´t now how to follow.
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In August 2011, Oak Ridge National Lab brought together a group of scientists, businesses and manufactures to expand the use of carbon fiber. Next month, ORNL will move that research to a new full scale production facility.
Carbon fiber is a high tech material that is very strong and light. But it is also very expensive. This new facility could make it cheaper.
"The whole point is to drive down the cost of carbon fibers, which typically you see in airplanes and missiles and high end stuff to get it into everyday applications such as automotive, wind turbines and to make it a more commercially viable product," Carbon Fiber Technology Center Director Lee McGetrick said.
The process starts with a synthetic fiber. Those fibers are heated and stretched leaving behind mostly carbon in long thin strands.
"About half the cost of carbon fiber is driven by the raw material itself, so we're experimenting with raw materials including lignin, which is a plant based," McGetrick said.
Researchers will experiment with new synthetic fibers already spun into strands or they can make their own fibers.
"What makes it different from a commercial plant is the ability to spin our own precursor fibers here in line and feed them directly into the process."
85 percent of the world's carbon fiber is made outside the U.S. One goal of this plant is to grow manufacturing here. Two leading U.S. companies are already on board to run experiments.
"Working with Dow Chemical to produce the carbon fibers out of polyolefin and Ford as the end user who will take this lower cost fibers, prototype parts to put in vehicles," McGetrick said.
Those Ford vehicles should use less gas.
"You can replace steel components on vehicles with carbon fiber composite components greatly reducing the weight of the vehicle obviously making the vehicle more fuel efficient."
Saving energy and growing the U.S. economy is the primary mission of the Oak Ridge National Lab.
"This is a perfect example of a Recovery Act project that will result in large scale commercialization of new advanced manufacturing technologies in this country creating jobs which is exactly what the Recovery Act was designed to do," McGetrick said.
The research facility cost $35 million. Full-scale production is scheduled to start on January 7, 2013.


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Herbert J. Branch
Herbert J. Branch, age 67 of Dandridge, passed away after a long and courageous battle with cancer Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
He was preceded in death by his parents Leroy and Ruth Branch.
Survivors include his wife of 31 years, Colleen Branch; daughter, Kelly Bailey and husband David; grandson (the son he never had), Christopher and grandson, Lucas Bailey; brothers, Leon, Eddie and Ray; sister, Hazel; several loved nieces and nephews, along with many special family and friends.
The family will receive friends 3-5 PM Sunday with funeral service to follow at 5 PM at Atchley's Smoky Mountain Chapel in Pigeon Forge with Rev. Arthur "Buddy" Easterday officiating. Family and friends will meet 11 AM Monday in Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens for interment where a eulogy will be given by Shane Cogdill. Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville, TN.


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Extreme density and energy-efficiency for lightweight scale-out workloads. The Intel® Atom™ processor C2000 product family.
Dynamic Web Benchmark Performance – (PHP on LAMP)
- Measures build and serve web page interface using the LAMP stack
- LAMP combination of free and open source software
- Principle components to build a web server:
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text: On August 23rd, SCA teamed up with national supporter Domtar to refurbish a community skating rink and playground in Nekoosa, Wisconsin. Since 2012, Domtar has supported SCA's urban initiatives for youth in cities across the country. SCA crew leaders from New York City, just finished with a season of fieldwork helping urban parks recover from Hurricane Sandy, were excited to travel to Wisconsin to help facilitate the project — and share stories of their work with urban youth.Read more


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SOUTH KINGSTOWN - Ella Whaley became the new South Kingstown town council president Monday night amidst tension as former president Kathleen Fogarty and former vice president Mary Eddy abstained their votes during the swearing-in ceremony.
While Eddy nominated Fogarty to be president for a second term, Carol Hagan McEntee nominated Whaley with councilman Jim O'Neill's support. After Whaley's nomination, Fogarty and Eddy abstained from voting for the president.
Hagan McEntee also became the new town council vice president. Whaley nominated first Fogarty and then Eddy for the vice president position, but both declined.
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Tour Overview :
Where you can ride a horse cart in style! The city was known in Thailand as Meuang Rot Mah (Horse Cart City). Also like it neighbor city Chaing Mai, Lampang is fill with impressive temple build during the 20th century. Also famous for the production of ceramic goods. A great deal of ball clay, china stone, and lignite are extracted from the surrounding mountains. There are more than 200 ceramic factory located in Lampang.
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Broiled or barbecued instead of deep-fried, and seasoned with homemade hot sauce spiked with plum sauce and brown sugar, these crispy, tangy, spicy wings — from New York's Blue Ribbon restaurants — are perfect for a summer backyard party or casual dinner.
Grilled Chicken Wings
8 chicken wings (about 1-3/4 lb.)
Perfect Roast Seasoning (see below) or kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tbsp Blue Ribbon Hot Sauce (see below) or your favourite bottled hot sauce
2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
1 tbsp Chinese plum sauce
1-1/2 tsp light brown sugar
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
Perfect Roast Seasoning
1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp kosher salt
3 tbsp freshly ground black pepper
1-1/2 tbsp dried thyme
Blue Ribbon Hot Sauce
3 cups distilled white vinegar
3-4 red, orange, or yellow habanero chilies, to taste, trimmed and sliced
2 tbsp salt
1 lb. carrots, trimmed, peeled, and roughly chopped
Grilled Chicken Wings
Step 1: Sprinkle the chicken wings with the seasoning (see below). Let rest for 20 minutes.
Step 2: In the meantime, preheat the broiler or grill.
Step 3: In a small bowl, mix together the hot sauce (see below), butter, plum sauce, and brown sugar. Set aside half of the hot sauce.
Step 4: Broil or grill the wings, turning once, for 20 minutes. Slather the wings with the remaining half of the hot sauce mixture, making sure to coat both sides of the wings. Broil or grill until glazed and crispy, 10-15 minutes longer, turning once. Using a clean utensil, brush the wings with the reserved hot sauce mixture before serving.
Step 5: To make the dressing, mix together the sour cream and blue cheese. Serve with the wings.
Perfect Roast Seasoning
Step 1: Combine the salt, pepper, and thyme and store in a covered container.
Blue Ribbon Hot Sauce
Step 1: Combine the vinegar, chilies, and salt in a large nonreactive pot over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil. Let the mixture cool, then purée in a blender and strain.
Step 2: While the peppers are cooking, in a separate pot combine the carrots with water to cover. Simmer until very tender but not overcooked, about 10 minutes. Drain well. Purée the carrots in the blender until smooth (you do not need to strain them), then stir into the strained vinegar mixture. If it's too spicy-hot, thin it down with a little water.
Step 3: Use immediately, or transfer the hot sauce to airtight, sterile jars or bottles and refrigerate.
Reprinted with permission from the Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Cookbook (2010 Clarkson Potter) by Bruce Bromberg, Eric Bromberg and Melissa Clark.
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O'Neill and Keane team up for Ireland taskTuesday 5 November 2013
Martin O'Neill has taken charge of the Republic of Ireland with Roy Keane as his assistant, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) confirmed on their Twitter feed. Their first game in charge will be Friday 15 November against Latvia.
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Northern Ireland are set to continue with Michael O'Neill in charge for the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying campaign, after agreeing a two-year extension.
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Bekas Duta US ke Malaysia memberi amaran PRU 13 mungkin yang paling gelap...
'Dirtiest' GE in the offing, warns ex-US envoy
Najib needs to deliver on his promised reforms if he is to keep the support of centrists, Malott said. — File picKUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 — The 13th general election will be Malaysia's "dirtiest" in history as the country's corrupt are expected to exhaust all avenues to cling on to power, former US ambassador John R. Malott has predicted.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal today, Malott said although Datuk Seri Najib Razak may enjoy some goodwill following Monday's Sodomy II acquittal of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the prime minister's failure to address the numerous scandals engulfing several ministers may see him suffer some backlash.
Singling out the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) cattle scandal as an example, Malott added that it was these "weaknesses" in Najib's administration that "compound Umno's fear of losing power and increase the risk of over-reaction".
"The party will not go down without a fight, and neither will its supporters in the bureaucracy, media, and business worlds, who fear losing access to the financial gravy train.
"Because of the high stakes, those who benefit from corruption will make an all-out effort to keep the opposition from coming to power," Malott said in the prominent newspaper.
He added that despite Najib's promises for economic and electoral reform, the prime minister continues to be dogged by right-wing opposition from within his party, forcing him to shelve many of his policies.
"All this will make the coming election the most important in Malaysia's history — and also its dirtiest. A return to Mahathir-style strong-arm tactics should not be ruled out."
While Malott painted a bleak picture for Najib, his forecast on Anwar and Pakatan Rakyat's (PR) days ahead appeared brighter.
The former ambassador, who served in Malaysia from 1995 to 1998, predicted that should Umno fumble on its promises for electoral reform and squanders its "newly-earned goodwill" from Anwar's acquittal, the federal opposition would only grow in strength.
"The growing pains and ideological differences that plagued the opposition coalition in years past have largely been overcome, and Mr Anwar and his political associates express confidence that they could take power in a fair contest," Malott pointed out.
In the event the prosecution in Anwar's case decide to appeal the judge's "not guilty" verdict, Malott expects the move could cost the Najib administration the recent support of centrists and independents.
"The international community needs to pay attention and hold Mr Najib to his promise of political and electoral reform. Mr Anwar's acquittal is only the beginning of the country's fight against political abuse and corruption," said Malott.


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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Rachel Picknell PR'd in both the hammer and the discus as Oregon State throwers wrapped up the first day of competition at the UCSD Triton Invitational in San Diego, Calif. on Friday.
The sophomore transfer from Sacramento City College began the weekend with a big personal best in the hammer throw. On her first attempt, Picknell posted a mark of 160' 4", good for fourth in her flight and 30th out of 48 competitors. That toss crushed her previous PR of 146' 3" from the Oregon Preview on March 22, extending her own school record.
In the evening, Picknell's discus throw of 136' 2" was an inch farther than her previous best achieved at last Saturday's Oregon Relays.
Freshman Melissa Ausman led the way for OSU in that event with a mark of 146' 1", which placed third in her flight and 25th overall. Sophomore Kayla Fleskes' throw of 141' 11" was good for 31st out of nearly 50 entries. It was just Fleskes' second-ever discus mark of over 140 feet. She PR'd at the Oregon Twilight last May 3 with a toss of 145' 1".
On Saturday, Fleskes will compete in the javelin along with Christina MacDonald. Picknell and Ausman will be in the shot put at 11 a.m. and Michele Turney will wrap up the meet in the triple jump around 5:30 p.m.